02.06.2025

Scholarship: Chiang Ching-kuo Ph.D. Dissertation Scholarship for Han Qijin 韩奇金, M.A.

Han Qijin has been awarded the CCK Fellowship for Ph.D. Dissertations for the grant period July 2025 – June 2026 to support her Ph.D. project.

We are pleased to announce that Han Qijin has been awarded the CCK Fellowship for Ph.D. Dissertations for the grant period July 2025 – June 2026 to support her Ph.D. project “The Art of Fugue: Translating the European Thermometer to China during the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722)”. By conducting a comparative and text-critical translation, contextualisation and analysis of two Jesuit treatises, Yanqi tushuo 驗氣圖說 (Illustrated Explanations of Verifying Qi; 1671) and Yanqi hanshubiao shuo 驗氣寒暑表說 (Explanations of the Cold-and-hot Meter [for Verifying Qi]; n.d.), this doctoral study strives to reconstruct the transmission and reception of the European thermometry during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722), and thus to further a better understanding of Sino-Western knowledge exchange in the era of early modern globalisation. This dissertation is supervised by Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Vogel, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Emily Graf and Prof. Dr. Achim Mittag. It is, moreover, part of the DFG 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)” directed by Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Vogel.