Dr. Fei Huang

Fei Huang is W3 chair professor of Chinese History and Society in the University of Tübingen. Her research interests concentrate on the interdisciplinary combination of landscape studies, environmental history, history of the body, cultural geography, historical anthropology, art history and material culture studies on China and the dynamics of globalization between 16th and 20th centuries. While her research is focused on China-related topics, she has enjoyed a broad academic training and also pursue interdisciplinary studies in comparative research projects internationally.

 RCC research project: Hot Springs and Public Bathing: Transformations within Continuity. Toward a Social-Environmental History of Body and City in China

Selected Publications:

• with Michel Storozum. “Water: the relationship between water and societies.” In Cultural History of the Environment, Vol. 1, edited by Mischa Meier. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
•  with Achim Mittag. “Animals: from herding and hunting to entertainment and experimentation.” In Cultural History of the Environment, Vol. 1, edited by Mischa Meier. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-Century Southwest China. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2018.
• “Between Hills and Valleys: Contesting Bazi Landscape, Society and Environment of Southwest China (1700-1900).” Journal of Asian History, 51.2 (2017): 257-282.
• “The Making of a Frontier Landscape: The Ten Views of Dongchuan in eighteenth century Southwest China.” Late Imperial China, 35.2 (2014): 56-88.