Notes on Contributors
Andrea BRÉARD is Alexander von Humboldt-Professor and Chair for Intellectual and Cultural History of China at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Before joining FAU she was Professor for History of Science at the Université Paris-Saclay in Orsay, France. Her research on the history of mathematics in China ranges from early traces of mathematical and statistical practices to their modernization during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. On the latter she recently published Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity (Springer, 2019) and a French commented translation of Li Shanlan’s number theoretical treatise from 1867, the Duoji bilei 垛積比類, will appear in the collection Bibliothèque Chinoise (Les Belles Lettres, Paris).
CHANG Chia-feng is Professor of History at National Taiwan University. She specializes in Chinese medical history, astronomical and astrological history. Her recent articles include “Politics under the Influence of Astronomy in Ancient China: A Case Study on the Suicide of the Han Prime Minister Chai Fengchin”, Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, 20.1 (1990); “Disease and Its Impact on Politics, Diplomacy and the Military: The Case of Smallpox and the Manchus (1613–1795)”, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 57. 2 (2002), and “Even the Yellow Lord Cannot Treat Children: Self-Identity and Social Positioning of Chinese Pediatricians from the Song to the Qing Dynasties,” New History, 24.1 (2013).
Constance A. COOK is a NEH Distinguished Professor at Lehigh University in Chinese studies. She was a fellow in Historical Studies at the Institute for Advance Study in Princeton, NJ (2017–2018) and a fellow at International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, IKGF, Erlangen, Germany (12 months during 2015–2017). Her specialty is the study of paleographical texts. Her books include Dice and Gods on the Silk Road: Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination and Its Transcultural Context (with Brandon Dotson and Zhao Lu, Leiden: Brill, 2021); Birth in Ancient China: A Study of Metaphor and Cultural Identity in Pre-imperial China (with Luo Xinhui. Albany, NY: State University of New York, 2017); Stalk Divination: A Newly Discovered Alternative to the I Ching (with Zhao Lu, Oxford University, 2017); Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao (Harvard University Asian Center, 2017); Ancient China: A History (with J. Major, Routledge, 2016); Death in Ancient China: The Tale of One Man’s Journey (Leiden: Brill, 2006).
Stéphane FEUILLAS is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris Diderot. His main fields of interest and research are Pre-Qin philosophy, the links between philosophy and literature in Song dynasty China, the Exegesis of the Book of Changes, and the Chinese history of thought, the theories of transformation and change, and the culture of the self.
Tze-ki HON is Professor at the Research Centre for History and Culture, Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai). Previously, he taught at Hanover College, (Indiana), State University of New York at Geneseo, and City University of Hong Kong. He wrote three books: The Yijing and Chinese Politics, The Allure of the Nation, and Revolution as Restoration. He coauthored Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes) with Geoffrey Redmond. He edited and co-edited five volumes: The Politics of Historical Production in Late Qing and Republican China, Beyond the May 4th Paradigm, The Decade of the Great War, Confucianism for the Contemporary World and Cold War Cities. His current research projects include the paradigm shifts in the Yijing commentaries, the philosophy of change of Wang Bi (226–249) and the transformation of the Yijng into a world classic since WWI.
LIAO Hsien-huei is an Associate Professor at the Institute of History at National Tsing Hua University. Her research interests include elite culture, popular beliefs, and the social and cultural history in middle period China. In recent years, she has been focusing on the interactions between literati and practitioners of the mantic arts. Her works were published in book Chapters such as Critical Readings on Chinese Religions, Coping with the Future: Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia, and journals such as Chinese Studies, New History, Journal of Song Yuan Studies, T’oung Pao, etc.
William MATTHEWS is a Fellow in the Anthropology of China at LSE. He is the author of several scholarly articles and book chapters on contemporary Chinese divination and the Yijing, and considers their relationship to cognitive approaches to the study of cosmology in his forthcoming book, Cosmic Coherence: A Cognitive Anthropology through Chinese Divination. His current research includes anthropological approaches to the relationship between cosmology and imperial state formation in Qin and Han China, and the implications of social cognition for developing anthropological comparison.
TAO Yingna received her PhD from the School of Philosophy and Social Development at Shandong University. In 2014–2015, she was a visiting student at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, University of Erlangen-Nuremburg, Germany.
Xing WANG is a Junior Research Fellow at Fudan University in Shanghai. He obtained his doctoral degree from University of Oxford in 2018. He is the author of the book Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body (Leiden: Brill, 2020). His research interests include the history and philosophy of Ming and Qing divination, history of the body in traditional China and late-imperial Chinese Buddhism. He is currently working on a funded research project about Pure Land Buddhism in Ming and early Qing dynasties.
ZHAO Lu 趙璐 is an Assistant Professor of Global China Studies, New York University Shanghai; Global Network Assistant Professor, New York University. He earned his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Chinese intellectual and cultural history of Early China. He is the author of In Pursuit of the Great Peace: Han Dynasty Classicism and the Making of Early Medieval Literati Culture (SUNY, 2019) and the co-author of Stalk Divination: A Newly Discovered Alternative to the I Ching (Oxford University Press, 2017) with Constance Cook.