Yijie Huang 黃怡潔
Collaborator
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Working group: Global Synergies/Asynergies
Yijie Huang is a postdoctoral researcher in the History Department at the University of Heidelberg. Her research interests include the histories of medicine, science, and the senses in early modern England, as well as medical exchange between Europe and China by 1800. Part of the ERC-funded project “FEVER: Global Histories of (a) Disease, 1750-1840”, she is currently exploring the prevalence of febrile diseases during the long eighteenth century with a focus on go-betweens across Europe and China and their manifold feverish perceptions. At the same time, she is also transferring her PhD thesis into a monograph. Before joining Heidelberg, she was a Jing Brand Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge. She is the recipient of Cambridge International Scholarship, and fellowships at the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance, the Huntington Library, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. She received her PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, where she wrote a thesis on knowledge and practice of the pulse in early modern England.
Projects: Taking the Pulse between Early Modern China and Europe