He Bian
Biographic Data
| ID | 5826075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | He Bian |
| GIVEN NAMES | He |
| FAMILY NAME | Bian |
| SIGNATURE | BIAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6633-7384 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Natalie Köhle: Obituary
No Such Portents under This Dynasty”: Reinventing Wonders in High Qing Institutional Historiography
This article traces the documentation of wonders ( wuyi 物異) in trans-dynastic institutional historiography, specifically the High Qing sequels to the Wenxian tongkao 文獻通考. It demonstrates that the long-standing tradition of recording cosmic anomalies in Chinese historiography received severe criticism in the Qing court’s profiling of its own institutions. The truncated and chronologically ordered section on Qing wonders reveals a crucial facet of…
Yan Liu, Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China
Medicine heals us, whereas poison kills us. In public and private spaces today, we rely on this seemingly neat binary between nourishing and toxic substances to live, and live well. Yet the boundary between safe and unsafe agents by no means remains stable, despite our best efforts: scientific studies make news headlines that blast the hidden toxicity—or health benefit—of food items. The long string of disclaimer over possible side effects in TV …
Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China
This book presents a panoramic inquiry into China’s early modern cultural transformation through the lens of pharmacy. In the history of science and civilization in China, pharmacy—as a commercial enterprise and as a branch of classical medicine—resists easy characterization. While China’s long tradition of documenting the natural world through state-commissioned pharmacopeias, known as bencao , dwindled after the sixteenth century, the ubiquitou…
Renshen diguo: Qingdai renshen de shengchan, xiaofei yu yiliao 人参帝国: 清代人参的生产、消费与医疗, written by Chiang Chu-Shan [Jiang Zhushan] 蒋竹山
Re-Collecting the Glorious Age: Yang Fuji and the Disciplining of Zhaodai Congshu, 1772–1844
Re-Collecting the Glorious Age:Yang Fuji and the Disciplining of Zhaodai Congshu, 1772–1844* He Bian (bio) Generations of sinologists worldwide have relied on congshu—texts published in print as collections—for their training and research, yet the term has resisted straightforward translation.1 Arthur W. Hummel Sr. (1884–1975) in 1931 endorsed the Latinate term collectanea, defining it as "a collection of reprints on several subjects by several a…
Documenting Medications: Patients’ Demand, Physicians’ Virtuosity, and Genre-Mixing of Prescription-Cases (Fang’an) in Seventeenth-Century China
Xianxingzhai guang biji ('Expanded Notes from the Studio of Early Enlightenment') is a Chinese medical case collection based primarily on the interaction between the physician Miao Xiyong and his patients. Professional interest alone, however, cannot explain the unique combination of cases with detailed prescriptions. Rather, elite patients played a crucial role in collecting and publishing these cases, driven in part by the need to prepare their…
Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity, written by Tina Phillips Johnson
Miandui jibing: Chuantong zhongguo shehui de yiliao guannian yu zuzhi 面對疾病:傳統中國社會的醫療觀念與組織 [ In the Face of Disease: Concepts and Institutions of Medicine in Traditional Chinese Society ]
Rarely is a moment more special in a scholar's career than the publication in one single volume of over a dozen essays composed in a period of more than two decades. There is more reason for celebr
Too Sick to Serve: The Politics of Illness in the Qing Civil Bureaucracy
Illness among officials posed perennial challenges to the local order of governance. During the Yongzheng reign (1723-35), a new set of policies emerged that enabled provincial officials to take a temporary sick leave and resume their careers after recovery. I use archival sources to examine how sick leave petitions were generated and handled in civil bureaucracy, and find that matters of personal health were treated increasingly as an impersonal…
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Too Sick to Serve: The Politics of Illness in the Qing Civil Bureaucracy
Illness among officials posed perennial challenges to the local order of governance. During the Yongzheng reign (1723-35), a new set of policies emerged that enabled provincial officials to take a temporary sick leave and resume their careers after recovery. I use archival sources to examine how sick leave petitions were generated and handled in civil bureaucracy, and find that matters of personal health were treated increasingly as an impersonal…
Miandui jibing: Chuantong zhongguo shehui de yiliao guannian yu zuzhi 面對疾病:傳統中國社會的醫療觀念與組織 [ In the Face of Disease: Concepts and Institutions of Medicine in Traditional Chinese Society ]
Rarely is a moment more special in a scholar's career than the publication in one single volume of over a dozen essays composed in a period of more than two decades. There is more reason for celebr
Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity, written by Tina Phillips Johnson
Documenting Medications: Patients’ Demand, Physicians’ Virtuosity, and Genre-Mixing of Prescription-Cases (Fang’an) in Seventeenth-Century China
Xianxingzhai guang biji ('Expanded Notes from the Studio of Early Enlightenment') is a Chinese medical case collection based primarily on the interaction between the physician Miao Xiyong and his patients. Professional interest alone, however, cannot explain the unique combination of cases with detailed prescriptions. Rather, elite patients played a crucial role in collecting and publishing these cases, driven in part by the need to prepare their…
Renshen diguo: Qingdai renshen de shengchan, xiaofei yu yiliao 人参帝国: 清代人参的生产、消费与医疗, written by Chiang Chu-Shan [Jiang Zhushan] 蒋竹山
Re-Collecting the Glorious Age: Yang Fuji and the Disciplining of Zhaodai Congshu, 1772–1844
Re-Collecting the Glorious Age:Yang Fuji and the Disciplining of Zhaodai Congshu, 1772–1844* He Bian (bio) Generations of sinologists worldwide have relied on congshu—texts published in print as collections—for their training and research, yet the term has resisted straightforward translation.1 Arthur W. Hummel Sr. (1884–1975) in 1931 endorsed the Latinate term collectanea, defining it as "a collection of reprints on several subjects by several a…
Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China
This book presents a panoramic inquiry into China’s early modern cultural transformation through the lens of pharmacy. In the history of science and civilization in China, pharmacy—as a commercial enterprise and as a branch of classical medicine—resists easy characterization. While China’s long tradition of documenting the natural world through state-commissioned pharmacopeias, known as bencao , dwindled after the sixteenth century, the ubiquitou…
Yan Liu, Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China
Medicine heals us, whereas poison kills us. In public and private spaces today, we rely on this seemingly neat binary between nourishing and toxic substances to live, and live well. Yet the boundary between safe and unsafe agents by no means remains stable, despite our best efforts: scientific studies make news headlines that blast the hidden toxicity—or health benefit—of food items. The long string of disclaimer over possible side effects in TV …
No Such Portents under This Dynasty”: Reinventing Wonders in High Qing Institutional Historiography
This article traces the documentation of wonders ( wuyi 物異) in trans-dynastic institutional historiography, specifically the High Qing sequels to the Wenxian tongkao 文獻通考. It demonstrates that the long-standing tradition of recording cosmic anomalies in Chinese historiography received severe criticism in the Qing court’s profiling of its own institutions. The truncated and chronologically ordered section on Qing wonders reveals a crucial facet of…
Natalie Köhle: Obituary
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