Chia-Yun Wu

Wu Chia-Yun attended National Taiwan University where she earned a bachelor’s degree. Upon graduation in 2007, she went to the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, earning a master's degree in History of Science. Now she is the doctoral candidate in the Institute of Sinology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Chia-Yun’s research interests lie in (1) talismans and their typological similarity with religious maps, and (2) the religious cartographic diagrams shown in the religious literature of the Han and non-Han ethnic groups in China. She is also interested in the history of religion, science, and medicine in China—especially in traditional science and medicine of the Yao nationality.