Fabrizio Pregadio (born January 14, 1957) is a Sinologist and a translator of Chinese language texts into English related toTaoism andNeidan (Internal Alchemy). He is currently affiliated with the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg),[1] and is working on a project on the Taoist MasterLiu Yiming (1734-1821)with the support of theGerman Research Foundation (DFG).[2]
Earlier, Pregadio taught at theUniversity of Venice (1996–97),Technische Universität Berlin (1998-2001),Stanford University (2001–08),McGill University in Montreal (2009–10), and theUniversity of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2014-18).
His research interests are the Taoist views of the human being; the self-cultivation traditions of Taoism; their foundations in early Taoist works; and their relation to Chinese traditional sciences, including cosmology, alchemy, and medicine.
Pregadio is the author ofGreat Clarity: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China (Stanford University Press, 2006)[3] and the editor ofThe Encyclopedia of Taoism (Routledge, 2008).[4] His translations of Taoist texts include theWuzhen pian (Awakening to Reality, 2009),[5] theCantong qi (The Seal of the Unity of the Three, 2011 and 2012),[6] theRuyao jing (Mirror for Compounding the Medicine, 2013),[7] a work by the Taoist masterLiu Yiming (Cultivating the Tao, 2013),[8]and an anthology of texts onNeidan or Internal Alchemy (2019),[9]all published byGolden Elixir Press.
