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Sacred Crafts: Artisans and Buddhist Monasteries in Premodern China and Japan
During the Song (960–1276) and Yuan (1271–1368) dynasties, Buddhist monasteries in southeastern China continuously increased in both scale and wealth.
Melissa Charenko
Melissa Charenko received her PhD in History of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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The Entry of India and China into the Global Production of Scientific Knowledge
This project of global knowledge production critically delves into the Chinese and Indian intellectuals’ assimilation to modern Western-dominated scie
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Digitalizing the China Foundation Network
China has become a major contributor to world science today, with the highest number of scientific publications in the world, a centralized government
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Source-Based Initiatives
Our source-based initiatives are designed to address the most basic assumptions about matter and meaning: how object and subject, text and artifa
Fenye in Local Gazetteers
First set up in the periods of Spring and Autumn and the Warring States (~770–221 BCE), Fenye is an astrological system that associated poli
Madhu Narayanan
Madhu Narayanan is a PhD candidate at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian I...
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On Intelligence Tests: Psychological Objects and Their Subjects
On Intelligence Tests employs multi-disciplinary tools and artistic research methods to critically examine the aesthetic, material, and affective powe
Common Knowledge and Its Sources in the Sinosphere, 14th to 20th Centuries
Category books (leishu 類書) are an important cornerstone for the compilation and delineation of knowledge in Imperial China. Since the third century, t
Local Gazetteers
Local gazetteers (difangzhi 地方志) have been major primary sources for the study of China’s local history. About 8,000 titles of local gazetteers dating