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Susan Zieger
Susan Zieger is Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Riverside. She ...
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Weijing (Vivian) Xu
Beijing-born Vivian Xu is a media artist and researcher currently based in Shanghai. In 2013, sh...
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Eine Revolution der Geisteswissenschaften
MehrArticle by MDC highlights MPIWG participation in Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
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Artikel des Max Delbrück Centrums hebt Teilnahme des MPIWG bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften hervor
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The Hermeneutics of Judgment and Critiques of Technology
In this project, I seek to understand critiques of technology after World War II by arguing that technological choices are inherently moral choices. D
When is Evidence Enough? The Pangea Controversy and the Drift of Evidence
In 1912, Alfred Wegener, a German climatologist and geophysicist, made public his theory about Pangea. He suggested that in a remote past there was a
The MPIWG Chinese Map Collection: Typological Parallels and “Historical” Layers
This project investigates a group of six Chinese maps, presumably dating from the nineteenth to twentieth century, acquired by the MPIWG in 2016 from
School Library Book Collections in Ming, Qing, and Republican China
To understand intellectual life and knowledge production, it is critical to examine the circulation of information. In 1996, Timothy Brook published a
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Turbulent Transmissions: The Public Roles of Chinese Scientists in the Covid-19 Crisis
Many months into the 2020 global COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the exact origin of the virus remains unknown. Although it is commonly agreed that th
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Chinese scientists played important roles in uncovering some of the mysteries surrounding early cases of COVID-19, and as transmitters of information