CONTRIBUTOR:

Rui Magone

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Center for the History of Science

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Universidade de Lisboa

BIOGRAPHY:

Rui Magone, a graduate of Freie Universität Berlin, wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the late imperial Chinese civil service examination system (“Once every three years: People and papers at the metropolitan examination of 1685”). He worked as an Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and Emory University, and as a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, as well as at University of Heidelberg’s Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”. He is currently affiliated with the Center for the History of Science at the University of Lisbon. His research is mainly focused on the epistemic culture of late imperial China, in particular civil service examinations and Sino-Portuguese relations. His current projects include an English translation of the Portuguese Jesuit Manuel Dias’ Chinese-language treatise on Western astronomy Tianwenlüe (1615); and the co-editing of a conference volume on “Paratexts in Late Imperial Chinese Book Culture.