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From Technocracy to Scientocracy? Science-Policy Interactions in the Chinese Local State, 1990–2020
With the beginning of the Reform and Opening Era (gaige kaifang) at the end of the 1970s, pragmatism and institutionalization began to replace tr
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This project seeks to understand the scope and nature of scientist/scholar-bureaucrat intersections and interactions in Chinese local governance, focu
Thamarai Selvan Kannan
Thamarai Selvan K is a PhD student from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the ...
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Assessing Certainty without Certainty
Full title: On the Use of Technical Tools for Assessing the Methodological Quality of Biomedical Research Data and its Role in the Emergence of S
Christopher Kelty
Christopher Kelty is professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Institute for...
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The Forgotten History of Intercropping: Changing Perceptions among Western Agronomists since the 19th Century
In the early twentieth century, colonial agricultural officers often regarded “intercropping” as a prime example of peasant “backwardness.” Unlike the
Grasping Heaven and Earth: The Healer’s Body-as-Technology in Chinese Medicine
Drawing on a wide range of Chinese sources from the seventh to the twentieth century—medical treatises, religious texts, encyclopedias, divination man
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Kaveh Yazdani
Kaveh Yazdani was born in Tehran and raised in Paris and Berlin. He received his PhD degree from...
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Network Study of Scientific Knowledge in the Early Modern Period
This project investigates complex systems consisting of many interacting components that cannot be simply studied by analyzing the properties of their
PACIFIC CROSSINGS: The China Foundation and a Negotiated Translation of American Science to China, 1913-1949
China has become a major contributor to the world’s science today, with the largest number of qualified scientific publications in the world, a centra
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Animal Fibers, Commerce, and the Rise of New Analytical Techniques
In the first decades of the twentieth century, fiber materials from plants and animals were intensively studied with new analytical techniques, includ