Shuhui LIU

Title

Assistant Researcher

Research Areas

• History of Sino-Foreign Scientific and Technological Exchanges

• Research on Sino-Foreign Scientific and Technological Literature in Macau’s Collections

• History of Ancient Chinese Medicine

• Cross-Cultural History of Psychiatry

• Global Microhistory

Educational Background

• 2023.9–2024.6: Oxford University, Department of History, Recognised Student,
Advisor: Professor Jennifer Altehenger

• 2019.9–2024.8: University of Macau, Department of History, PhD,
Supervisor: Professor Di Wang (王笛)

• 2012.9–2013.12: SOAS, University of London (UK), Chinese Studies, Master’s Degree,
Advisor: Professor Tianyuan Tan

• 2009.9–2012.6: University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UK), Classical Studies and Chinese Studies, Joint Honours Bachelor’s Degree

Work Experience

• 2024.11–Present: Special Research Assistant, Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publications

• Liu Shuhui, “An Unexpected Journey: Charles Selden and the Birth of the First Modern Psychiatric Hospital in China, 1897–1915,” New History, Vol. 16, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2023, pp. 244–277.

Conference Presentations

1. “From Missionary to Maoist: The John Kerr Hospital and the Evolution of Socialist Psychiatry in China”
From Local to Global: Socialism and Health in East Asia, Shanghai, June 7, 2024

2. “Transplanting Minds: Psychiatric Knowledge Among Medical Missionaries at the John Kerr Refuge/Hospital for the Insane, 1907–1916”
Medicine, Gender and Trans-Regional Order, Macau, May 5, 2024

3. “American Missionaries and the First Hospital for the Insane in Modern China”
Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA), USA, September 29, 2023

Contact Information

• Address:
Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
55 Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100190

• Email: liushuhui@ihns.ac.cn