Interview with Dr Yi-Li Wu

Dr Yi-Li Wu is an associate of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan and an affiliated researcher with EASTmedicine at the University of Westminster. She is a historian of Chinese medicine, focusing on the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), with research projects spanning a wide range of topics including medicine and gender, historical views of the body, medical illustrations, forensic medicine, and the dissemination of Western medicine in China. She is currently writing a monograph on trauma medicine. Her publications include Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China (University of California Press, 2010), which was awarded the Margaret W. Rossiter Book Prize of the History of Science Society. She earned a Ph.D. in history and an M.A. in international relations from Yale University, and a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr Wu was a faculty member at Albion College (USA) for 13 years, teaching courses on East Asian history and the comparative history of medicine.