Dr. KOEHLE, Natalie
柯麗娜博士
Assistant Professor, Department of History
PhD, Harvard University, Cambridge
MA, Harvard University, Cambridge
BA, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
(852) 3411 7616
koehle@hkbu.edu.hk

RESEARCH FOCUS

History of Chinese Medicine and the Body
History of āyurveda
History of Tibetan Medicine

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Book Projects
Fluid Fire: Toward a Global History of Chinese Medicine
Feasting on Donkey Skin: A Social History of Donkey Hide Glue in China
Edited Volume
(2020) Fluid Matter(s): Flow and Transformation in the History of the Body. Asian Studies Monograph Series 14 (Canberra: ANU Press, 2020). Co-edited with Shigehisa Kuriyama. DOI: http://doi.org/10.22459/FM.2020
Journal Articles (Peer-reviewed)
(2016) “A Confluence of Humors: āyurvedic Conceptions of Digestion and the History of Chinese Phlegm (tan 痰),” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 136.3, 465-93.
(2008) “Why did the Kangxi Emperor Go to Wutai shan? Patronage, Pilgrimage, and the Place of Tibetan Buddhism at the Court of the Early Qing,” Late Imperial China 29.1, 73-119.
Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
(2020) “Spirit, Sweat, and Qi,” in Fluid Matter(s): Flow and Transformation in the History of the Body. Asian Studies Monograph Series 14, ed. Natalie Köhle and Shigehisa Kuriyama (Canberra: ANU Press).
(2020) “Fluid Matter(s): Introduction,” in Fluid Matter(s): Flow and Transformation in the History of the Body. Asian Studies Monograph Series 14 (Canberra: ANU Press), n.p. Co-authored with Shigehisa Kuriyama.
(2019) “Power over Life and Death,” in Power: China Story Yearbook 2018, ed. Jane Golley, Paul Farrelly, Linda Jaivin, and Sharon Strange (Canberra: Australian National University Press), 275-81.
(2018) “Feasting on Donkey Skin”, in Prosperity: China Story Yearbook 2017, ed. Jane Golley and Linda Jaivin (Canberra: Australian National University Press), 177-82.
(2017) “Cups, Needles, and Noxious Blood”, in Control: China Story Yearbook 2016, ed. Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin, and Luigi Tomba (Canberra: Australian National University Press), 178-84.
Reference (Peer-Reviewed)
(2021) “Buddhism and Healing,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Religion, ed. Richard K. Payne (Oxford University Press, 2014), published online 29 October 2021. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/978.013.ORE_REL-00749.R1
Pedagogy
(2020) “Digital Possibilities for Creating Audience-Focused Text,” in Marta Hanson, Sarah Zanolini, Natalie Köhle, Dexter Kendrick, Alexander O. Hsu, “Pedagogical Forum: Expanded Possibilities for Teaching Asian Medicines,” Asian Medicine 15.2: 315-21.
Engagement
(2021) “Geist, Schweiss, und Qi,” Qi – Zeitschrift für Chinesische Medizin 4, 16-20.
Film
(2010) Sommerferien 1934 [Summer Vacation 1934], short film (3 min.)

FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS (Selected)

Grants, external
(2020-2023) General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong University Grants Committee, The Rise of Phlegm as Embodied Emotion in Chinese Medicine (960-1911)
(2017) American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation (CCK), Fluid Matter(s) Conference Grant
(2013-2014) Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation (CCK), Doctoral Fellowship
2011-2012 Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Taiwan Fellowship
Grants, internal
(2020) Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), Tier 2 Faculty Grant
(2019) HKBU, Tier 1 Faculty Grant
(2018) Australian National University (ANU), College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP), Research Development Grant
(2017) ANU, CAP, Faculty Development Grant