Anna Lisa Beck | Asien-Orient-Institut | UZH

Anna Lisa Beck, M.A.

Assistentin Sinologie

Raumbezeichnung: ZUB 4-407

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Short Biography
Research Interests
Courses Taught
Conferences and Talks

Short Biography

2025	Ph.D. student in Chinese Studies, University of Zurich Preliminary thesis title: “Sharks in the Cultural History of the Sinophone World”
2022-2025	M.A. Student in Population and Development Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles
2019-2022	M.A. Student in Religion and Philosophy of Asia, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich Thesis: “Techniques for the Conception of Male Offspring in Premodern China: Readings from the Warring States until the End of the Six Dynasties”
2019-2021	M.A. Certificate Student (33 ECTS) in Environmental Studies, Rachel Carson Center Munich
2017-2018	Chinese language program, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (full scholarship by the China Scholarship Council)
2015-2019	B.A. in Chinese Studies and Language/Literature/Culture, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

Research Interests

Animal studies: human-nonhuman relations, natural philosophy, perception and consumption of the nonhuman
Medical anthropology and the nexus between medical culture and culinary culture
Transmission of cultural knowledge across time and space
Gender studies, cultural studies, interdisciplinarity

Courses Taught

Spring semester 2025

“Crossdressing und Genderperformanz in der chinesischen Literatur”, (Sprache, Literatur, Medien: Seminar), B.A. course, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich

Conferences and Talks

21-25/08/2023	“From Determinism to Diagnosis: Gynaecological Discourse in Early Chinese Medical Texts”, talk at the International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
11/05/2023	Chair at the “Animal Protection” panel of ShARC Tales 3, Sheffield Animal Research Centre, UK
10/05/2023	“Fin and Tonic: Shark Products in Chinese Medical Discourse”, talk at ShARC Tales 3, Sheffield Animal Research Centre, UK
05/02/2023	“Technology, Control, and Violence: The Cost of Ritual Propriety in Ancient Chinese Philosophy”, talk at the conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, Arizona State University, USA
26/11/2022	“Conceptualizations of Gender (and) Identities in Early Chinese Medical Literature: The Taichan shu 胎產書”, talk at the Annual Conference on Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
11/06/2022	“Of Tigers and Pearls: The Role of Environmental Factors in Discourses on Human Fertility and Gestation in Early Chinese Medical Literature”, talk at the “Defining the Human in Environmental Humanities” conference, Venice International University, Italy