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).

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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 [1]
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.