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The WebGIS Platform of Historical Maps of China
The WebGIS Platform of Historical Maps of China, conducted by the history department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTUMAPGIS), is a combined GIS
This project first focused on military maps of premodern China. All maps are scanned at high resolution (600dpi), and then geo-referenced. The WebGIS
Digital Resource, Project_DeptSchaefer_WebGIS.png, Land Survey Maps of China: A Cartographic Database (1885–1945), https://chmap.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/
Presentation, Project_DeptSchaefer_WebGIS_LoGaRT_2020.png, "Visualizing Geographies of Late Qing and Republican China" Workshop, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4281192
John Michael Steele
John Steele was awarded his PhD from the University of Durham in 1998. He is currently Professor...
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Geographical Maps and Religious Charts in Pre-Modern China: Two Case Studies
My research project is titled “Geographical Maps and Religious Charts in Pre-Modern China: Two Case Studies.” The proposed study is focused on two int
He BIAN
He Bian studied History of Science at Harvard University and graduated with a PhD in 2014. She h...
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Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Material Culture in Early Modern China, 1500-1800
This project examines the crucial period between sixteenth and eighteenth century in Chinese cultural history through the lens of pharmacy – broadly c
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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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Nature and Nation: Documentation and the Practice of Natural History at the Australian Museum, 1850-1890
From the earliest years of the Australian colony of New South Wales, natural history served as a vital lens and organising principle for colonists' en
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The Wild Silk of West Africa: Towards an Indigenous Science of Materials
West African societies have a long history of interactions with insect materials as a primary source of inspiration, creativity, and innovation. Ideas
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Matter, Causation, and Experimental Knowledge in Early Modern Scholastic Natural Science from Colonial Chile and Ecuador
The writings of Latin American scholastic thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth century largely followed the structure of the cursus philosophicu
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