Thèmes de recherche

• Échanges scientifiques entre l’Europe et l’Asie orientale (XVIe - XIXe siècles)
• Histoire des sciences mathématiques
• Science et gouvernement en Chine impériale
• Dynamique spatiale et circulation des savoirs
• Représentations des sciences et de leur histoire

Enseignement

• Sciences et savoirs de l'Asie orientale dans la mondialisation (XVIe-XXe siècle). En collaboration avec Frédéric Obringer et ZHAO Bing
• Introduction à la langue mandchoue par la lecture des textes. En collaboration avec Alice Crowther et Kao Hsiang-Tai.

Principales publications

Ouvrages

• (2018) Luis Saraiva and Catherine Jami (eds), Visual and textual representations in exchanges between Europe and East Asia, 16th-18th centuries. History of the mathematical sciences: Portugal and East Asia V. Singapore, World Scientific, xiv+229 pp.
• (2017) Catherine Jami (ed.), Individual itineraries and the spatial dynamics of knowledge: science, technology and medicine in China, 17ty-20th centuries. Paris, Collège de France, x + 404 pp. 
• (2014) “Mobilité humaine et circulation des savoirs techniques (XVII^e-XIX^esiècles)”, Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident no. 36, 226 pp.
• (2012) The Emperor’s new mathematics: Western learning and imperial authority in China during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722). Oxford : Oxford University Press, xvi + 435 pp.
• (2008) Luis Saraiva and Catherine Jami (eds), The Jesuits, the Padroado and East Asian Science (1552-1773). History of the mathematical sciences: Portugal and East Asia III. Singapore, World Scientific, xiv+229 pp.
• (2001) Catherine Jami, Peter Engelfriet & Gregory Blue (eds.), Statecraft and Intellectual Renewal in Late Ming China: The Cross-Cultural Synthesis of Xu Guangqi (1562-1633). Leiden, Brill, xx + 466 pp.
• (1992) Patrick Petitjean, Catherine Jami & Anne-Marie Moulin (eds.), Science and Empires. Historical Studies about Scientific Development and European Expansion. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science vol. 136), xiii + 411 pp.
• (1990) Les Méthodes Rapides pour la Trigonométrie et le Rapport Précis du Cercle (1774). Tradition chinoise et apport occidental en mathématiques. Paris, Collège de France (Mémoires de l'Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises vol. XXXII), 230 p. Préface de Jacques Gernet.

Chapitres d'ouvrages récents

• (2018) Western learning and imperial knowledge of the world during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722)”, in L. Saraiva and C. Jami (eds.), Visual and textual representations in exchanges between Europe and East Asia. Singapore, World Scientific, pp. 267-277.
• (2017) “Investigating things under Heaven: imperial mobility and the Kangxi emperor’s construction of knowledge”, in C. Jami (ed.), Individual itineraries and the Spatial Dynamics of Knowledge: Science, Technology and Medicine in Late Imperial China.Paris, Collège de France, pp. 173-205.
• (2017) “Introduction”, in C. Jami (ed.), Individual itineraries and the Spatial Dynamics of Knowledge: Science, Technology and Medicine in Late Imperial China.Paris, Collège de France, pp. 1-18
• (2015) “Cong Faguo wangjia kexueyuan dao Kangxi huangdi gongting : Faguo yesu hui chuanjiaotuan  從法國王家科學院到康熙皇帝宮廷：法國耶穌會傳教團 (1688-1722).” In Jiaohu de jingxiang: Zhongguo yu Fanlanxi 交互的鏡像：中國與法蘭西, eds Béatrice Didier 貝阿特麗絲迪迪耶 and Meng Hua 孟華. Shanghai : Shanghai yuandong chubanshe: 30-40.
• (2014) “The Jesuits’ Negotiation of Science between France and China (1685–1722): Knowledge and Modes of Imperial Expansion.” In Negotiating knowledge in early modern empires: a decentered view, eds László Kontler, Antonella Romano, Silvia Sebastiani & Borbála Zsuzsanna Török. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan: 53-77.
• (2013) “Cuentas y Pinceles. Enseñanza occidental y aritmética elemental en China (1600-1800)”, in Lola Ballaguer-Núñez, Luis Calvo Calvo y F. Xavier Medina eds., Asia, Europa y el Mediterráneo: Ciencia, Technología y Circulación del Conociment. Barcelona: Residència d’Investigadors CSIC-Generalitat de Catalunya, 149-168.

Articles récents

• (2020) with Christopher Cullen. "Christmas 1668 and after: how Jesuit astronomy was restored to power in Beijing." Journal for the History of Astronomy 51: 3-50 (https://doi.org/10.1177/0021828620901887).
• (2019) "Beads and brushes: Elementary arithmetic and Western learning in China (1600-1800)." Historia Scientiarum 29: 26-49 (https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02299347).
• (2019) “Human Mobility and the Spatial Dynamics of Knowledge: Mapping Science, Technology, and Medicine in and around Late Imperial China”, Transfers 9: 42-61 (https://doi.org/10.3167/trans.2019.090104)
  
• (2018) “Les traductions de traités scientifiques européens en Chine au xviie siècle : enjeux des langues et des disciplines.” La Révolution Française 13;(https://journals.openedition.org/lrf/1898#text).
• (2017) "Un empereur à l’observatoire: l’histoire de la Chine au prisme d’une anecdote”, Ecrire l’histoire 17, pp. 65-74 (https://journals.openedition.org/elh/1166).           
• (2015) “Revisiting the Calendar Case (1664-1669)”: science, religion and politics in early Qing Beijing.” Korean Journal of History of Science 37: 459-477 (https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01222267).
• (2014) “La carrière de Mei Wending (1633-1721) et le statut des sciences mathématiques dans le savoir lettré.” Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident 36, 19-47 (https://doi.org/10.4000/extremeorient.305).