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Senior researcher in Chinese medical history, bioarchaeology, and historical linguistics

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research focuses on technical texts from ancient, medieval, and late imperial China, dealing with - sexual body techniques - individual psychophysical techniques (like meditation, visualisation, mirror techniques, etc.), - physiological alchemy (nei dan) - medical treatment - plant signatures - bubonic plague - history of diseases academic disciplines: - sinology - manuscript studies - historical anthropology of the body, meditation and medicine in China - history of science, technology and medicine - bioarchaeology - historical linguistics bibliography on coronaviruses, COVID-19

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Linguistic Anthropology
• ★ Chinese History
• ☆ Coronaviruses
• ☆ Cultural Anthropology
• ☆ Ethnology & Ethnography
• ☆ Medical Anthropology
• ☆ Linguistics
• ☆ Semantics
• ☆ Religious Studies
• ☆ Philosophy of Mind
• ☆ History of Philosophy
• ☆ LGBTQ & Sexuality Studies
• ☆ Cultural Studies
• ☆ Feminism
• ☆ Medical History
• ☆ Japanese History
• ☆ Ethnohistory
• ☆ History of Technology
• ☆ Historical Research
• ☆ Asian Languages
• ☆ Textual Criticism
• ☆ Asian Studies
• ☆ COVID-19
• ☆ Social Medicine
• ☆ Complementary & Alternative Medicine
• ☆ Herbal Medicine
• ☆ Traditional Medicine
• ☆ Acupuncture
• ☆ Meditation
• ☆ Alternative Medicine
• ☆ Zoonoses

Services

• Writing
• Research

Writing Clinical Trial Documentation, Technical Writing

Research Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Work Experience

senior researcher

Research Institute for the History of Afroeurasian Life Sciences (RIHAELS)

January 2015 - Present

Education

Dr phil (Ostasiatisches Seminar)

Universität Zürich

April 1999 - December 2001

lic phil (Philosophical Faculty Sinology, Social Anthropology, Anthropological Psychology, Art History)

Universität Zürich

January 1982 - February 1993

Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts

April 1985 - April 1986

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

REPORT

Feng Shenyu stele (505 CE) • Feng Shenyu deng erbainian ren zaoxiang bei 馮神育等二百廿人造像碑 (Casual Notes for Friends 2) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5070447, Pfister, Rodo, keywords: Daoist stelae, Feng Shenyu stele (505 CE), Daoist religious communities, Early medieval China, Feng Shenyu stele (505 CE) • Feng Shenyu deng erbainian ren zaoxiang bei 馮神育等二百廿人造像碑 (Casual Notes for Friends 2) .

OTHER

ResearchGate .

(2018). [Bibliography] Camelids & plague . Zenodo.

Rudolf Pfister (2018). [Bibliography] Camelids & plague . Zenodo.

Rudolf Pfister (2017). [Bibliography] Chengdu Tianhui zhen Laoguan shan Western Han tombs M1-M3 成都天回鎮老官山漢墓 (LGS) .

Rudolf Pfister (2016). [Bibliography] Dahuting Eastern Han Tombs 打虎亭漢墓 • stone reliefs and murals .

BOOK CHAPTER

Üble Kerne unter der Haut. Neu erschlossene medizinische Quellen zur Beulenpest im frühmittelalterlichen China [Evil Kernels Under the Skin. New Sources to Bubonic Plague in Early Medieval China], in: LWL-MUSEUM FÜR ARCHÄOLOGIE, WESTFÄLISCHES LANDESMUSEUM, HERNE; LEENEN Stefan, BERNER Alexander, MAUS Sandra, MÖLDERS Doreen (ed.) 2019 Pest! Eine Spurensuche. Darmstadt: wbg Theiss, pp. 64-73.

In book: Concepts and Categories of Emotion in East Asia, Publisher: Carocci editore (Roma), Editors: Giusi Tamburello, pp.38-70.

in Paolo SANTANGELO (ed.) 2012: Laughing in Chinese. (Asia Orientale) Roma: Aracne, pp. 335-367. [ISBN 978-88-548-4620-3.] http://store.aracneeditrice.com/it/libro_new.php?id=7081 *Review*: CHEN Guo-hai & SHAW Robert 2014, in: Humor 27(1): 167-170. http://philpapers.org/rec/SHALIC .

in: VOGEL Hans Ulrich, MOLL-MURATA Christine & GAO Xuan (eds.) 2006: Studies on Ancient Chinese Scientific and Technical Texts. Proceedings of the 3rd ISACBRST. March 31-April 3, 2003 Tübingen, Germany. Zhengzhou: Elephant Press, pp. 88-106. [ISBN: 7-5347-3860-1].

in: SANTANGELO Paolo, GUIDA Donatella (eds.) 2006: Love, Hatred and Other Passions: Questions and Themes on Emotion in Chinese Civilization. Leiden: Brill, pp. 180-194.

in: MUSEUM RIETBERG ZÜRICH ed. 2002: Liebeskunst. Liebeslust und Liebesleid in der Weltkunst. Zürich: Museum Rietberg Zürich, pp. 11-12.

Studies in Alternative Therapy 2: Body and Nature, Edited by JOHANNESSEN Helle, OLESEN Søren Gosvig, ANDERSEN Jørgen Østergård, 1995: pages 82-105; Gylling (Denmark): Odense University Press & International Network for Research on Alternative Therapies INRAT. ISBN: 8778381428.

CONFERENCE PAPER

(Conference paper) On the Partonymy of Female Genitals in Chinese Manuscripts on Sexual Body Techniques. 28p. Addendum to 2016’ (Shanghai 上海) Chutu Yixue Wenxian Yanjiu Guoji Yantaohui Lunwenji 出土醫學文獻研究國際研討會論文集 (Collected Papers of 2016 (Shanghai) International Conference for Medical Manuscripts Unearthed in China). Shanghai: Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. (254+28+1+8p.) .

JOURNAL ARTICLE

On the Meditative Use of the Body Maps Found in the Composite Text ‘Songs of the Bodily Husk’ (Ti ke ge). In: Curare – Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie – Journal of Medical Anthropology 39(1): 56-74, 103 (French abstract) .

Gesnerus, Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences 72: 333-337 .

Asiatische Studien - Etudes asiatiques LXVI, 4, 2012: 973-999. http://dx.doi.org/10.5167/uzh-78293 .

Pfister, R.(2012). Gendering sexual pleasures in early and medieval China . Asian Medicine. 7. (1). p. 34-64.

Pfister R(2008). [Historiography of the body and medicine in ancient and medieval China: 1997-2007] . Gesnerus.

Pfister R(2008). [Historiography of the body and medicine in ancient and medieval China: 1997-2007] . Gesnerus.

Pfister, R.(2008). Historiography of the body and medicine in ancient and medieval China: 1997-2007,Körper- und Medizingeschichte des alten und mittelalterlichen Chinas, 1997-2007 . Gesnerus. 65. (1-2). p. 86-107.

Asiatische Studien - Etudes asiatiques LXI (3) 2007, S. 813-844 .

R. Pfister(2006). Book Review: The Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture . China Information. 20. (1). p. 139--140. {SAGE} Publications

Rudolf Pfister(2003). Zwischen Heil und Heilung: Zur fruhen Tradition des Yangsheng in China (review) . Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 77. (3). p. 690--692. Johns Hopkins University Press

Asiatische Studien : Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft = Études asiatiques : revue de la Société Suisse - Asie Band: 56 (2002) Heft: 3 .

(1997). Sexuelle Körpertechniken in den medizinischen Manuskripten aus Mawangdui.

(1992). Die Lettres édifiantes et curieuses der Jesuiten: Autorenverzeichnis und Zusammenfassungen aller Briefe aus China, sowie Übersetzung eines Briefes von Pater Parennin.

(1992). Die Lettres édifiantes et curieuses der Jesuiten: Autorenverzeichnis und Zusammenfassungen aller Briefe aus China, sowie Übersetzung eines Briefes von Pater Parennin . Asiatische Studien - Etudes asiatiques.

BOOK REVIEW

East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 36 (2012) 233-238 .

Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques Band: 61 (2007) Heft: 3: 989-1006 .

[Review] LESSELL, Colin B.: Bibliotheca Medica de Asia Orientali. An annotated chronological bibliography of Western writings on Chinese & Japanese medicine, medicine of the adjacent territories, & related topics, from 1473 to 1900. Salopiae: Samphire Press, 2006. 1 CD-ROM, 346 p. Ill, in: Gesnerus 64(3/4): 324-325 .

R. Pfister(2006). Book Review: The Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture . China Information. 20. (1). p. 139--140. {SAGE} Publications

Rudolf Pfister(2003). Zwischen Heil und Heilung: Zur frühen Tradition des Yangsheng in China (review) . Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 77. (3). p. 690--692. Johns Hopkins University Press

ONLINE RESOURCE

(2011). Coitus saxonicus, Letter of Frederick Hilton (15 Oct 1956) to Joseph Needham .

TRANSLATION

in: du – Zeitschrift für Kultur, Heft 753, Nr. 1, Februar 2005: 57.

BOOK

Zürich: Museum Rietberg Zürich, 2003. 92 Seiten, chinesischer Originaltext, Auswahlbibliografie, Broschur, 22,5 x 13 cm ISBN 978-3-907077-08-5.

Rudolf Pfister(2003). Der beste Weg unter dem Himmel. 91 S. Museum Rietberg