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The Reception of Latitude and Longitude in Early Modern China, 1644–1900
This project examines Qing scholars’ effort to integrate conventional Chinese cartographical practice and the Jesuit-style latitude-longitude coordina
School Library Book Collections in Ming, Qing, and Republican China
To understand intellectual life and knowledge production, it is critical to examine the circulation of information. In 1996, Timothy Brook published a
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Mineral Building Materials in China. Rediscovering Built Environments in the Large Datasets of Difangzhi, 10–20th Centuries
This project revisits construction activities in China by utilizing large datasets of the Chinese local gazette Difangzhi, dating from the tenth
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The Other Chemists’ War: The Uses, Dual Uses, and Abuses of Chemical Weapons in the Second World War
Alison’s dissertation highlights the long Second World War (1931–1945) as a transformative moment in the history of chemical weapons. Although the con
Vegetable · Animal · Transformation
“Vegetable · Animal · Transformation” examines a complex of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century strategies that engaged chemistry, biology, and d
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Artifact and Tonality: Musical Instrument Makers as Invisible Technicians in Twentieth-Century South India
In India, musical instrument making has so far not been explored from the perspective of history of science and technology. From the historical docume
Zhu Yuanzhang and the Nanjing City Wall: Knowledge of Astronomy and Divination
In the middle of the fourteenth century, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, expanded a city in Nanjing with the power of the who
Alles bewegt! Wissen unterwegs - Canzler & Kalmbach reden über Mobilität
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MoreImaginaries of Artificial Intelligence: Framing Governance in Germany, China, and the US
Innovations from the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are widely deemed as the driving force for the next wave of social changes, industrial revo
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This project systematically examines the factors and dynamics that are driving convergence and divergence in the policy and public discourses in the t