Animals, Science and Modernity: The Intricacies of Livestock Keeping in Late Imperial and Republican China
动物、科学与现代性：中华帝国晚期和民国时期畜牧业的复杂性
2024 年 12 月 6 日，欧洲中部时间（CET）下午 1.15 – 2.45
当谈论中国历史和社会时，我们很少提及非人类群体，那些有翅膀的、偶蹄的、毛茸茸的、羽毛状的或毛茸茸的生物，尽管它们在战争、移民、文化和人类生活中发挥着重要作用。此次数字对话将结合环境史和医学史的方法，探讨中华帝国晚期和民国时期饲养、饲养和治疗家畜的复杂性，重点关注马和羊。两位演讲者深入研究了这两个物种在中国的历史，展示了它们在当时政治和经济生活中的重要性，也展示了国家官员、士兵或医疗专业人员在试图利用这两个物种实现国家目标时所面临的问题。人类的目标不仅会受到不可预见的环境因素的阻碍，还会受到动物行为和身体反应的阻碍，这些行为和身体反应并不总是符合人类的期望，而且常常与人类的期望背道而驰。这次活动不仅希望引起人们对这两个物种的具体命运的反思，而且还希望引起人们对更广泛的人与动物关系的反思。
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Yan Gao is a historian of late imperial and modern China. She specializes in social and environmental history of central Yangzi region, water history, and Asian environmental humanities. Her first book Yangzi Waters, published by Brill, examines water management and environmental changes in late imperial central China. She continues to write about the Yangzi River, and expands her research interest to human-animal relations and climate humanities. Currently, she explores the interactions of social and climate systems in the central Yangzi valley from the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. She obtained her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. She was a Carson fellow at the Rachel Carson Center and conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Duke University.
Renée Krusche is a historian of modern China with a special interest in medical history. She is a Postdoc at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), where in 2020 she finished her PhD on the topic of health practices and civilization diseases in Mao era China. In 2022 she published her first book The Health Socialist Life in Maoist China, 1949-1980. Currently she is researching Chinese veterinary history, historical human-animal relations in Asia, Chinese gendered health practices and the tradition of Yoga in Republican China.
