Ruixuan Du 杜蕊璇
Collaborator
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Working groups: Modes of Knowing, Local Practices
Ruixuan Du is a postdoctoral scholar in the Working Group “Common Knowledge and Its Sources in the Sinosphere, 14th–20th Centuries” in the Department Artifacts, Action, Knowledge at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Her research explores the verification of medical practices, focusing on the imagination of the human body and the ways in which it was approached in late imperial China.
Through the study of diverse medical genres, she examines the interplay between image and text, the dynamic between inner and outer (内外) bodily realms, and the relation between the body and its surroundings.
She received her PhD from Philipps-Universität Marburg and worked as a predoctoral scholar at the MPIWG, where she completed her dissertation titled “Imagination and Intervention: Exploring Medical Texts and Images in Chinese External Medicine (16th–17th Century).” Before joining the MPIWG, she earned an MA in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology from Technische Universität Berlin and a BA in Cultural Studies from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.