An Impossible History? Spiritual Science in Early 20th-Century China

Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira is a Leverhulme Trust & Isaac Newton Trust Research Fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and a Research Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He is a global historian of medicine, science, and religion in 19th- and 20th-century China, with extended interests in the histories of mental health and alternative therapies in modern East Asia and South America. His first book, The Science of the Spirit: Mind, Medicine, and the Impossible in Chinese Modernity, explores the Chinese enthusiasm for psychic abilities and their impact on local understandings of health and religious experience in the first half of the 20th century.