Academic Staff

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
History of Chinese Medicine and the Body
History of Āyurveda
History of Tibetan Medicine
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/9780199340378.013.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.)
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
