Yijie Huang

Yijie Huang was awarded her PhD from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, for her dissertation on the knowledge and practice of pulse diagnosis in late seventeenth-century England. At the MPIWG, her project examined the exchange of pulse-lore between China and Europe during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. As part of the “Local Gazetteers” Working Group in Department III, she investigated the rise and fall of visual representation in the European translations of Chinese pulse medicine in the early Enlightenment. Yijie’s article on seventeenth-century English anatomist and physician Edmund King’s observation and analogical thinking of the pulse won the 2021 Annals of Science Best Paper Prize. Beyond her current research topic, she has a growing interest in the disease category of fever and its related medical dynamic in early modern Europe and East Asia. She was the Jing Brand Scholar in Chinese Science and Civilization at the Needham Research Institute with the project, “Running a Fever in a Strange Land: Missionaries, the Locals, and Their Medical Communications in China, 1550-1750”, and is now Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC project “FEVER – Global Histories of (a) Disease, 1750-1840” at the University of Heidelberg.