Yulei Yang
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Yulei Yang

Affiliated Scholar (Dez 2021-Dez 2022)

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Yulei YANG studied history and historical geography at Zhejiang University and Fudan University, obtaining her PhD in 2005 with a dissertation on Sino-Korean cultural exchange in the Ming and Qing dynasties. She was a visiting scholar at Seoul National University, Yonsei University, and UMR 8173 Chine-Corée-Japon (CNRS-EHESS), and she is currently a professor at the Department of History & Research Institute for Pre-modern Chinese History of Zhejiang University.

Her research interests include the history of Sino-Korean relations, the history of cultural exchanges between East and West, and the history of cartography. Her current research work focuses more on the history of East Asian cartography, especially on Chinese and Korean world maps in the Ming and Qing dynasties. She is particularly concerned with changes of geographical knowledge, genealogy, and spatial concepts of East Asia in the course of encountering western culture.

Projekte

Geographical Knowledge and Cultural Concepts: A Preliminary Investigation of the Old Chinese Maps Collected at the MPIWG

MEHR

Changes in Chinese Traditional General Maps: Two Late-Qing General Maps in the MPIWG Map Collection

MEHR

Translation Terroirs: East Asia Between Autochthonous and Western Cartographic Languages

MEHR

Past Events

Colloquium

A Study of Commercial General Maps in the Late Qing Dynasty: The Case of Two Maps in the MPIWG Collection

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Workshop

Analysis of Pre-Modern Maps of East Asia: Methods and Approaches

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