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The Scholarly Experience: Wisdom in the Syriac World (Fourth–Twelfth Century)
In Syriac scholarship, knowledge was intimately tied to the scholar as a person who possessed it. It was firmly embedded in the web of customs, morals
Thinking in Many Tongues
This working group and reading seminar, running over two years in 2016–17, brought together around a dozen historians and philologists with diverse ki
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Reading Seminar, 5 October 2016 Etymology , Participants, Wolfgang Behr
Different Culture, Different Climate: Cultural Differences in Climate Knowledge and Ideas
Analysis on the acceptance of western climatology in China from the 1920s to 1970s indicates that although the first generation of climatologists in C
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This research focuses on cultural differences in climate knowledge and ideas. The central issue is: to what extent did the attitudes towards climate c
Popular Ming Field Allocation Maps: Between Origins and Afterlife
This research is concerned with field allocation (fenye 分野) maps found across the popular Ming encyclopedias, beginning from the early seventeenth cen
How Fenye Entered Local Gazetteers
More than ten thousand local gazetteers have been preserved in China and most of them include special chapters on fenye (field allocation). Fenye, whi
Fenye Knowledge in the General Maps in Late Ming Daily Encyclopedias
Field allocation, fenye 分野 is the traditional Chinese theory of the corresponding relationship between the celestial regions and the terrestrial realm
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property
Organizing knowledge always involves the question of who has the right to say what kind of information is (or should remain) scientific, universal, lo
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Re-Thinking East Asian Medicines
This project finds new ways of thinking historically about East Asian medicines as living traditions to address a number of enduring questio
Agriculture and the Song Elite World of Literature
“Agriculture and the Song Elite World of Literature” has a two-fold goal: to analyze the writing strategies of literati based on both technological bo
Comparative Study of Mission-Oriented R&D Organizations
The debate about “Little Science” and “Big Science” put forward by Derek J. De Solla Price in 1963 was an important driver for promoting profound refo
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This project aims to explore attempts to build idealized model of mission-oriented R&D organizations, comparing several cases of national and mult