Marie Schierhorn (7/2022-7/2024)

Marie Schierhorn is a research and teaching associate at the FAU Chair for Sinology with a focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China and PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg. She studied in Hamburg and Paris (INALCO/ Université Paris-Diderot VII), where she obtained her Masters degree in 2020. In her research she combines philological issues with a special interest in the history of science and social theory. Her latest publication focuses on the critical examination of the canonical Shangshu in the 17th century and thereby explores the social and epistemological preconditions for the emergence of a scientific system in the field of philological scholarship. In the context of the sin-aps project she is mainly interested in quantified conceptions of scientific objects in late imperial and Republican China. How did the numerical description of scholarly objects change during the Qing period? And what does this change reveal about the understanding of the true and the ideal?