Roel Sterckx
Roel Sterckx FBA is a Flemish-British sinologist and anthropologist. He is the Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization at Cambridge University, and a fellow of Clare College.Life and career
Sterckx attended secondary school at the Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege in Mol, Belgium, and read sinology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He went on to study Chinese philosophy at National Taiwan University before moving to Cambridge, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Oriental studies. He was a research fellow at Oxford and Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona before returning to Cambridge in 2002. He served as Secretary-General of the European Association for Chinese Studies from 2006 to 2012. In 2013 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.Selected works
- The Animal and the Daemon in Early China. Albany: SUNY Press, 2002.
- Of Tripod and Palate: Food, Politics and Religion in Traditional China. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005.
- De l'Esprit aux Esprits: Enquête sur la notion de shen en Chine. Saint-Denis: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2007.
- In the Fields of Shennong. Cambridge: Needham Research Institute, 2008.
- Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
- 胡司德, 古代中国的动物与灵异. Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2016.
- 胡司德, 早期中国的食物、祭祀和圣贤. Hangzhou: Zhejiang daxue chubanshe, 2018.
- Animals Through Chinese History: Earliest times to 1911. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Chinese Thought. From Confucius to Cook Ding. London: Penguin, 2019.
- Ways of Heaven. An Introduction to Chinese Thought. New York, Basic Books, 2019.
