PhD Candidate, Department of Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen
Academic Career
- Since 2023 Recipient of PhD Scholarship within the "Landesgraduiertenförderung" (LGFG) program
- Since 2022 PhD Candidate at the Department of Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen
- 2022 M.A. Sinology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Tübingen
- Since 2020 Research Assistant of Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Vogel, Department of Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen
- 2019 B.A. History, University of Macau (honoured with the Wu's Group Academic Prize)
- 2017-2019 Student and Research Assistant of Prof. Dr. Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros, Department of History, University of Macau
Research Focus
Han Qijin focuses her research on East-West interactions during the period of early modern globalization, especially on intercivilizational science and technology transfer undertaken by go-betweeners during the early Qing dynasty. Currently, she is carrying out a comparative and critical translation and analysis of two Jesuit treatises which were dedicated to the introduction of thermometry to the Kangxi court, namely the Yanqi tushuo 驗氣圖說 (Illustrated Explanation of Testing Air; 1671) written by Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-1688) and the Yanqi hanshubiao shuo 驗氣寒暑表說 (An Explanation of the Cold-and Hot Meter for Testing Air; n.d.) drafted by his French successors. By applying interdisciplinary approaches and methods in her research and by taking the introduction of the thermometer as her case study, she attempts to arrive at a better understanding of the patterns and dynamics of knowledge transfer under the setting of a controlled cultural relationship. This doctoral dissertation is part of the research project “Translating Western Science, Technology and Medicine to Late Ming China: Convergences and Divergences in the Light of the Kunyu gezhi 坤輿格致 (Investigations of the Earth’s Interior; 1640) and the Taixi shuifa 泰西水法 (Hydromethods of the Great West; 1612),” supervised by Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Vogel.
