Roel Sterckx

Roel Sterckx (胡司德), born 1969, is a Flemish/British sinologist and Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge where he is also a Fellow of Clare College. He was educated at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, National Taiwan University, University of Cambridge and University of Oxford, and, since 2006, serves as Secretary-General of the European Association of Chinese Studies (歐洲漢學學會).

Publications

* "The Animal and the Daemon in Early China". Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
* "Of Tripod and Palate: Food, Politics and Religion in Traditional China". New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005.
**Reviews: "Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society" 16.2 (2006), 213-16; "Monumenta Serica" 54 (2006)
* "The Empire of Sense: A Study of Food and Sacrifice in Early China" (in progress).
* "The Moral and Material in Early China" (in progress).
* "Het Kraken van de Schildpadschaal" [http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/~rs10009/Sterckx%20%20Kraken%20v.d.%20Schildpad.pdf]
* "A Bronze Menagerie: Mat Weights of Early China" (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum & University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), with Michelle C. Wang, Eugene Wang, and Guolong Lai.
* "De l'Esprit aux Esprits: Enquête sur la notion de shen en Chine". Extrême-orient, Extrême-occident 29. Saint-Denis: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2007; with Romain Graziani.

External links

* [http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/departments/deas/chinese/staff/sterckx.html Homepage at Cambridge University]