CRCAO member - China Team

Jean Corbi

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange

Presentation

Jean Corbi holds a Ph.D. in history and is a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Chiang Ching- kuo Foundation. His dissertation, entitled “A Profession in the Shadow of the State: Medicine and Physicians in Sichuan, 1900–1950,” examined the interrelated dynamics of the professionalization of physicians, state-building, and the emergence of public health, addressing both traditional Chinese medicine and biomedicine. His current research project focuses on the circulation of knowledge and medical professionals across China, Asia, and the rest of the world.

Research thematics

  • State and Society in Modern China, State building
  • Politics of Health, Public Health
  • Circulation of Health Professionals and Medical Knowledge
  • Quantitative History

Publications (HAL Archive Ouverte)

  • Jean Corbi. ‘National Defense Medicine’. Medical care, humanitarianism and intimacy in the long Second World War, 1931–1953, Manchester University Press, 2025, 9781526183484. ⟨10.7765/9781526183484.00010⟩. ⟨hal-05669482⟩

  • Jean Corbi. Women and the practice of Western medicine in late Republican China. Negotiating in/visibility. Women, science, engineering and medicine in the twentieth century, Manchester University Press, 2025, 9781526178398. ⟨10.7765/9781526178398.00020⟩. ⟨hal-05669475⟩

  • Jean Corbi. Une profession à l’ombre de l’État : médecines et médecins au Sichuan, 1900-1950. Histoire. Institut d'études politiques de paris - Sciences Po, 2024. Français. ⟨NNT : 2024IEPP0017⟩. ⟨tel-04952442⟩

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