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On Their Own Terms: Experts in Imperial China

• Sarah SchneewindQiao YANG

This special issue, “On Their Own Terms: Experts in Imperial China,” examines various kinds of expertise from Han times into the twentieth century from the angle of practitioners themselves, and sometimes even on their own terms.

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Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue

• Mackenzie CooleyHuiyi Wu

Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue unveils how these two vast empires, separated by thousands of miles, developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield knowledge about their local worlds

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Animal Mobilities

• Tamar NovickLisa OnagaGabriel Rosenberg

Situates “animal mobility” within the politics of movement, opening new perspectives in the history of science.

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The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

• Sarah BlackerEmily BrownellAnindita NagMartina SchlünderSarah Van BeurdenHelen R. Verran

The Planning Moment elaborates the myriad ways that plans and planning practices pervade recent global history.

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Science Diplomacy on Display: Mobile Atomic Exhibitions in the Cold War

• Maria RentetziDonatella Germanese

Despite the increasing interest in science exhibitions, there has been hardly any work on mobile science exhibitions and their role within science diplomacy – a gap this thematic issue is meant to fill.

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Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property

• Dagmar SchäferAnnapurna MamidipudiMarius Buning

A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society

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Making Animal Materials in Time

• Lisa OnagaLaurence Douny

This special issue, “Making Animal Materials in Time,” delves into the history of animal materials used in craft and scientific endeavors since the eighteenth century.

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Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship: Thinking in Many Tongues

• Glenn W. MostDagmar SchäferMarten Söderblom Saarela

Was plurilingualism the exception or the norm in traditional Eurasian scholarship? This volume presents a selection of primary sources—in many cases translated into English for the first time—with introductions that provide fascinating historical materials for challenging notions of the ways in which traditional Eurasian scholars dealt with plurilingualism and monolingualism.

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Moving Crops and the Scales of History

• Francesca BrayBarbara HahnJohn Bosco LourdusamyTiago Saraiva

A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”—the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop

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Hybridization in the History of Ideas; Historical Geoanthropology

• Enrico PasiniPietro Daniel OmodeoRodolfo GarauGiulia Rispoli

Special issue 1: Hybridization in the History of Ideas ; Special issue 2: Geoanthropology.

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Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy: Explorations of the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin Traditions

• Katja KrauseLuis Xavier López FarjeatNicholas A, Oschman

This volume brings together contributions from distinguished scholars in the history of philosophy, focusing on points of interaction between discrete historical contexts, religions, and cultures found within the premodern period.

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Scientific Visual Representations in History

• Matteo VallerianiGiulia GianniniEnrico Giannetto

This book explores continuity and ruptures in the historical use of visual representations in science and related disciplines such as art history and anthropology. The book also considers more recent developments that attest to the unprecedented importance of scientific visualizations, such as video recordings, animations, simulations, graphs, and enhanced realities.

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The Production of Geographical Knowledge in Medieval China

• Alexis LycasMasato HasegawaShih-Pei Chen

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Visual Materials in Local Gazetteers

• Anne GerritsenKenneth Hammond

The editorial board are pleased to present volume 3 of the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies, which opens with a special section on “Visual Materials in Local Gazetteers”.

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Making History: Technologies of Production and the Estate of Knowledge in East Asia

• Seow, VictorDagmar Schäfer

How did production, the making of things, come to be regarded as an inferior part of the process from the conceptualization of a commodity to its consumption? And how did East Asia, which has long been a place of production, come concurrently to be dismissed by other global actors on account of that fact and denied the potential for innovation?

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Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation

• Katja KrauseMaria AuxentDror Weil

This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across premodern time and space.

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Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe: Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange

• Matteo VallerianiAndrea Ottone

This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera, by far the most widely disseminated textbook on geocentric cosmology...

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The Material Culture and Politics of Artifacts in Nuclear Diplomacy

• Maria RentetziIto, Kenji

This special issue stresses the importance of material culture in diplomatic studies of science and technology.

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Seeing Clearly Through COVID-19

• Boniolo, GiovanniLisa Onaga

The essays appearing in the Topical Collection initiative "Seeing Clearly Through COVID-19" follow a short-form essay format.

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Local Uses of Geographical Knowledge in Imperial China

• Alexis LycasMasato HasegawaShih-Pei Chen

Contributions to the International Workshop “Locality and Geographical Knowledge in Imperial China”. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, 29 June to 1 July 2020