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Wu Yun's 吳筠 "Rhapsody on the Darkling Gibbon" and its Daoist Contexts
A Chinese “rhapsody” 賦 is a long poetic form meant to “set forth / present” 賦 all aspects of a subject. The Daoist priest Wu Yün’s 吳筠 (d. 778)’s rhaps
Roads and Localities: A Perspective from Local Gazetteers on Road Construction in 18th Century China
Based on the digital tools of LoGaRT, this project studies the commemorative essays about road construction in the local gazetteers. Drawing upon the
Tangut Astrology in Texts, Images, and Material Culture
How and why did astrological knowledge, techniques, beliefs, and forms of representation circulate throughout premodern Eurasia? How were such things
Comparing Ancient Medical Encyclopedia: The Nineveh Medical Compendium (Mesopotamia) and the Donguibogam (Korea)
Transience: Politics and Practices of Time in the Chinese Period of Division (4th–7th centuries)
This working group explores how Chinese elites in the Period of Division coped with the ephemerality that marked their time. We ask how changes in soc
The Diplomatic Corpus of Yuan China in Comparative Perspective: Training, Careers, Mobility
China is famous for not having a ministry of foreign affairs until the 1900s and yet diplomatic envoys were part and parcel of Chinese foreign policy
Geographical Maps and Religious Charts in Pre-Modern China: Two Case Studies
My research project is titled “Geographical Maps and Religious Charts in Pre-Modern China: Two Case Studies.” The proposed study is focused on two int
Visualizations of the Planets in the Graeco-Roman World (ca. 300 BCE-600 CE)
Using texts and images, this project explores the ways in which the planets were imagined and visually represented in the Graeco-Roman world in a diac
Visual Materials (Tu 圖) in Local Gazetteers
In classical Chinese, “Tu (圖)” can mean either images, illustrations, or drawings. This working group intends to look at visual representations in Chi
Changes in Chinese Traditional General Maps: Two Late-Qing General Maps in the MPIWG Map Collection
This project focusses on two general maps of the late Qing Empire, Daqing tianxia zhonghua gesheng Fuzhou xianting dili quantu 大清天下中華各省府州縣廳地
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