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No Easy Way Out: Ge Hong’s Rejection of Timeless Utopianism and Embrace of Progress
Due to the turbulence and danger of the fragmented early medieval Chinese world, numerous men of letters craned their necks looking for paradises in u
Keith Knapp’s article on Ge Hong in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosphy
Between Worlds: Music, Sound, and Interspecies Communication
“The anthropological machine of humanism is an ironic apparatus that verifies the absence of a nature proper to Homo, holding him suspended between a
Bird Offal: Anonymous Benefits and Treatments
Agriculture books of medieval times were a rich source of knowledge for all the information needed by farmers to work successfully. Fertilizers were d
Between East and West: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Mountaineering
This project explores how mountaineering and rock climbing contributed to the appreciation of verticality as a practical experience and spatial catego
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Dealing with Transience during the Sixteen States Period of Early Medieval China
The period of the Sixteen States (304–439) in northern China was characterized by rather short-lived regimes, mostly founded by “non-Han” rulers belon
Mapping the Knowledge of Famine Foods in China, 1400–1650
This project investigates the intersection of the history of knowledge, agriculture, and print culture in late imperial China through the lens of “fam
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Ethnographic and Naturalist Knowledge and the “Scientific” Racialization of Indian Food and Agriculture, 16th–17th C.
This project utilizes European botanical and medical treatises, ethnographic literature including travelogues, and correspondences about Indian food a
Genealogies of Anthropogenic Change
The project aims to map the emergence of a specifically “anthropogenic” change and study its distinctive character as a new kind of change. Anthropoge
Comparing Ancient Medical Encyclopedia: The Nineveh Medical Compendium (Mesopotamia) and the Donguibogam (Korea)
Rhythms of War and Farming in Early Modern China and Korea
This project examines the conceptions, structures, and experiences of timeliness in war and farming in early modern Northeast Asia. Early Chinese text