Vernacular Medicine and Modes of Knowing in China

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Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Working group: Modes of Knowing

Joachim Kurtz is a professor of Intellectual History and Chinese at the University of Heidelberg. Prior to joining the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, he worked as an associate professor of Chinese at Emory University and a research group director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has studied at Hamburg, Beijing, Berlin, Shanghai, Göttingen, and Erlangen and held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Institute for History and Philology at Academia Sinica in Taibei, and the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and a corresponding member of the Academy of Science in Hamburg. His research focuses on cultural and scientific exchanges between China, Japan, and Europe, with special emphasis on logic, philosophy, political theory, translation studies, and the history of the book. Publications include The Discovery of Chinese Logic (2011) and eight edited volumes, e.g., New Terms for New Ideas (2001); Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China (2020); and Wissensorte in China [Sites of Knowledge in China] (2023).