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Martina Siebert is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, specializing in Chinese intellectual history and the history of science and technology from the 11th to 19th centuries. Her work bridges material culture, classification systems, and digital humanities, with a focus on Qing Dynasty botanical practices and technological narratives.
- PhD in Chinese studies and history of science (Free University of Berlin, 2002)
- Affiliated with Free University of Berlin, University of Würzburg, Beijing Normal University, Humboldt University, and State Library of Berlin
Research Interests:
Centers on Chinese intellectual traditions, particularly lotus cultivation in Qing imperial spaces, technological invention narratives (wuyuan), and classification schemes for animals. Her work examines how scientific thinking intersects with administrative regulation, material culture, and textual traditions in premodern China.
Selected Projects:
• Planning Plants: Growing and Organizing Lotus in Qing Imperial Spaces
• Monumentalized or Marginalized, Writings about Technology in Chinese History
• Historicized Innovation: Knowledge Tradition and its Encounter with the New
Professional Activities:
Active participant in international conferences including the Association for Asian Studies and History of Science Society meetings. Co-organized panels on translation processes and cross-cultural knowledge exchange in Asian science history.
