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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
The Cosmic Board Divination in Medieval China: Integrated Studies on the Manuscript of Divination Book
The manuscript Bushishu (Divination Book) copied in the early Tang period (only volume 23 survived) was separated into two fragments. The fi
The Babylonian Zodiac in Image and Text
Using both images and texts, this project explores the development, use, and social role of the zodiac in first millennium BC Babylonia. This explorat
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Games of Chance and Mathematical Knowledge in Late Ming and Qing China
Recently, historians of law, economy, literature, and art in China have become increasingly interested in daily life encyclopedia (lit. Complete Books
Artifacts 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
Systems, Tools, and Artifacts: Technology Transmission in Premodern China
This project examined how and when technology became an "object of knowledge" in Premodern Chinese Culture. Dagmar Schäfer enquired into methodologica
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
The Bibliophile Qi Chenghan: Book Consumption and Commercialization in Late Ming China
This project dealt with one of the largest private libraries Dansheng tang of Qi Chenghan (1565–1628) in Shanyin of the Late Ming perio
The Material Culture of Temples in North China, 1400–1900
This study of the material culture embodied in Chinese temples and their paraphernalia in the late imperial era attempted to demonstrate how the North