Daisy Yunshi Liang 梁韵诗
Research Assistant
York University
Working groups: Local Practices, Global Synergie/Asynergies
Daisy Liang (梁韵诗) is a doctoral student in the Department of History at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her research explores medical networks between Western Europe and East Asia in the early twentieth century. Combining global and micro-historical perspectives, she examines the transnational circulation of biomedicine and its intersections with local medical cultures in South China. Her dissertation examines the complex landscape of medical epistemology and practice in Republican-era Guangzhou, a less studied metropole with one of China’s longest histories of biomedicine and a deep-rooted cultural commitment to traditional medicine. Through the lens of a 1930s epidemic, she traces the circulation of bacteriology from France to China and investigates its clashes and intersections with classical and vernacular medical expertise.
Daisy holds a BA in English Language and Literature (Liberal Arts stream) from Sun Yat-sen University, China, and an MA in International History and Politics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva, Switzerland.