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Can innovation be planned? Director Dagmar Schäfer in conversation with Die Zeit
Go to ArticleArtifacts of Authentication: People Making Texts Making Things in Ming-Qing China
The uses and connotations of the word zhen (authentic, genuine, true) in Late Imperial scholarly discourse were broad. This is clear from frequent app
Cultural Traditions of Technical Knowledge
Chinese elite writings provide evidence of concepts of technology—they reflect upon changes and these reflections in turn influence the culture of kno
A Cultural History of the End of Fossil Fuels
Taking as my starting point the presumption that we are in the early days of a massive phase-out of fossil fuels, this project brings culture and tech
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A Philological Archeology of Master Craftsmen
This was an investigation into how technical knowledge was represented in biographical writings and how craftsmen and their skills are perceived by Ch
Chinese Building Manuals and Traditions of Architectural Technology
In China, master craftsmen and imperial architects as well as scholars summarized practical knowledge of building in manuals and presented them to spe
Media and Methods of Practical Knowledge Transmission: Craftsmanship and the Qing Court
This project addressed sociocultural issues, knowledge mobility across space, and the social context of artisans. In this context, socialcultural issu
Monumentalized or Marginalized, Writings about Technology in Chinese History: A Database
Technological issues and practical know-how are recurring themes in the premodern Chinese written tradition, addressed in various literary genres for
Mapping China in the 18th Century: Hand-drawn Maps from the "Qing Atlas Tradition"
The Museum am Rothenbaum (MARKK) in Hamburg keeps an impressive collection of maps from East Asia, namely China, Japan and Korea. Currently the maps a
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Tracking Citation Patterns and Knowledge Diffusion in Song Dynasty Notebooks
This project analyzed the social, thematic, spatial, and temporal dimensions of information exchange in imperial China through the quantitative and qu