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Of Soils and Stars: Jesuit Perceptions of Chinese Agricultural Practices through Calendrical Construction
In Novus Atlas Sinensis, the Jesuit missionary Martino Martini (1614–1661) claimed that in China, which is “pleasant for the climate, the soil, the fe
The Chinese Past (and Future?) of Natural Sciences (in German)
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MehrA Permanent Revolution. Singapore as a Logistics City, 1848–1942
Logistics, both materially and metaphorically, is tied to histories of urbanization. As a managerial rationality and a material practice for reorganiz
Timothy Brook
Timothy Brook is professor of Chinese history and Republic of China Chair at the University of B...
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A Price History of Ming China
This research project examines that most basic fact of economic history—prices—in China during the Ming period (1368–1644), though particularly its se
Mineral Building Materials in China. Rediscovering Built Environments in the Large Datasets of Difangzhi, 10–20th Centuries
This project revisits construction activities in China by utilizing large datasets of the Chinese local gazette Difangzhi, dating from the tenth
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Political Epistemology of Earth System Science
This project studies the rather sudden framing of Earth system science in the 1980s as a hot field of interdisciplinary research devoted to studies of
Crisis of Humankind and Scientific Truth: Reflection on Science at the Starnberg Max Planck Institute (1970–1980)
With the founding of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of the Scientific and Technical World in Starnberg in 1970, the Max Planck Society had cre
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