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The “Persian Wheel” and Its Impact in 16th to 18th Century India
In India, the Persian wheel or saqiya was probably imported around the thirteenth or fourteenth century in the wake of the Turkish conquests of northe
The Art of Judgement
The Art of Judgement explores how judgements are formed. In focus is the inherently dynamic nature of both assessments and decisions, as they are prod
“The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis” in China
Funded by the Wellcome Trust with an Investigator Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences (grant number 217988/Z/19/Z) The Global War Against the
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China’s Engagement in European Research, Innovation and Higher Education
This project explores China as an increasingly important actor in science and technology. China’s new role manifests itself, both in the production of
From Technocracy to Scientocracy? Science-Policy Interactions in the Chinese Local State, 1990–2020
With the beginning of the Reform and Opening Era (gaige kaifang) at the end of the 1970s, pragmatism and institutionalization began to replace tr
LMRG_Ahlers_Propaganda_Board
This project seeks to understand the scope and nature of scientist/scholar-bureaucrat intersections and interactions in Chinese local governance, focu
Thamarai Selvan Kannan
Thamarai Selvan K is a PhD student from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the ...
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Assessing Certainty without Certainty
Full title: On the Use of Technical Tools for Assessing the Methodological Quality of Biomedical Research Data and its Role in the Emergence of S
Christopher Kelty
Christopher Kelty is professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Institute for...
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The Forgotten History of Intercropping: Changing Perceptions among Western Agronomists since the 19th Century
In the early twentieth century, colonial agricultural officers often regarded “intercropping” as a prime example of peasant “backwardness.” Unlike the
Grasping Heaven and Earth: The Healer’s Body-as-Technology in Chinese Medicine
Drawing on a wide range of Chinese sources from the seventh to the twentieth century—medical treatises, religious texts, encyclopedias, divination man
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