Fabrizio Pregadio (born January 14, 1957) is a Sinologist and a translator of Chinese language texts into English related to Taoism and Neidan (Internal Alchemy). He is currently affiliated with the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), and is working on a project on the Taoist Master Liu Yiming (1734-1821) with the support of the

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(DFG). Earlier, Pregadio taught at the University of Venice (1996–97), the

Technical University of Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

(1998-2001),

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(2001–08), McGill University in Montreal (2009–10), and the University 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 of ''Great Clarity: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China'' (Stanford University Press, 2006) and the editor of ''The Encyclopedia of Taoism'' (Routledge, 2008). His translations of Taoist texts include the '' Wuzhen pian'' (Awakening to Reality, 2009), the ''

Cantong qi The ''Cantong qi'' is deemed to be the earliest book on Taoist alchemy in China. The title has been variously translated as ''Kinship of the Three'', ''Akinness of the Three'', ''Triplex Unity'', ''The Seal of the Unity of the Three'', and in se ...

'' (The Seal of the Unity of the Three, 2011 and 2012), the '' Ruyao jing'' (Mirror for Compounding the Medicine, 2013), a work by the Taoist master Liu Yiming (''Cultivating the Tao'', 2013), and an anthology of texts on Neidan or Internal Alchemy (2019),Pregadio, Fabrizio
''Taoist Internal Alchemy: An Anthology of Neidan Texts''
Mountain View: Golden Elixir Press, 2019. all published by Golden Elixir Press.

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Fabrizio Pregadio
(International Consortium for Research in the Humanities)
Fabrizio Pregadio
(personal website) {{DEFAULTSORT:Pregadio, Fabrizio Italian sinologists 1957 births Living people