Sare Aricanli

Sare Aricanli serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Durham University, United Kingdom, where she conducts specialized research on imperial Chinese medical institutions and their socio-political contexts during the Qing Dynasty.

Her doctoral work was supervised by Benjamin Elman, a prominent historian of Chinese intellectual history whose scholarship significantly shaped East Asian historical studies until his passing in 2013.

Dr. Aricanli's research examines medical pluralism within 18th-century Qing governance, analyzing how multilingual frameworks, institutional restructuring of the Imperial Medical Bureau and Imperial Pharmacy, and representation of diverse practitioners reinforced imperial authority. She investigates the integration of human/equine medicine, anatomical conceptions across Manchu/Chinese/Western texts, and the transnational influence of Qing medical orthodoxy extending into Japan.