TJ Hinrichs

TJ Hinrichs is an Associate Professor in Cornell University's Department of History. A central thread running through her research and teaching is the investigation of connections between intimate experiences, such as illness and personal transformation; communal practices, such as medical training and religious rites; and broader historical shifts, such as commercialization and the spread of printing. Her forthcoming monograph, Shamans, Witchcraft, and Quarantine: The Medical Transformation of Governance and Southern Customs in Song China (Harvard East Asia Series), examines how the Song (960-1279 C.E.) government made medicine an instrument of its activist social reform policies, and the ramifications of that process for political and medical practice. In a new project she is exploring the protean and marginal domains of Song-Yuan (10th-14th century) commercial and itinerant cultures.

Listen to an interview with TJ Hinrichs and Linda Barnes (http://www.amazon.com/Linda-L.-Barnes/e/B001IZRCMU/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_2) by Carla Nappi on the New Books in East Asian Studies podcast: http://newbooksineastasianstudies.com/2013/07/29/t-j-hinrichs-and-linda-l-barnes-eds-chinese-medicine-and-healing-an-illustrated-history-harvard-up-2012/

(http://history.arts.cornell.edu/faculty-department-hinrichs.php)