He Bian

Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies

Phone

(609) 258–9192

Office

203 Dickinson Hall

Email

hbian@princeton.edu

He Bian is a historian of late imperial China and a historian of science. Her research interests span many topics pertaining to the question of authority and variation in China’s traditional culture, particularly in medicine and the natural sciences, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Overall, her passion lies in writing a new kind of Chinese cultural history that foregrounds knowledge of all kinds, and is also rigorously contextualized by institutional, social, and economic conditions of the day.

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