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The Science of Children
What are the parallels between conceptual development in children and knowledge formation in the sciences? How have ideas of such paral
Interpreting Eclipses in Byzantium: Knowledge Transfer from India to the Eastern Mediterranean (1000–1500)
The aim of this project is to identify and analyze visual representations and descriptions of eclipses and/or the lunar nodes from the Eastern Mediter
Modeled Modernity: A Critical History of Computing in the People's Republic of China
At the MPIWG, Bo An is working on his dissertation, an interdisciplinary history of computation and modeling in the People's Republic of China ov
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A central working hypothesis—widely held but rarely investigated—is that modern computing has significantly changed Chinese governance, society, and c
Overseas Development, Foreign Areas and Chinese "World-Writing"
This project advances understandings of "Global China" not only as an economic and geopolitical force, but as a critical intellectual project. Sp
Bo An
Bo An is a PhD Candidate in East Asian and Media Studies at Yale University. His research intere...
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The American Chimpanzee: Creating a Scientific Resource, 1915–1995
Prial’s project traces the history of chimpanzees as laboratory animals in the United States during the twentieth century, considering how parts of th
The Evolution of Social Sciences in China since the late 1970s
Social sciences arguably only emerged in the People’s Republic of China in the late 1970s when the Chinese economic reform began. This research projec
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
Ayako Sakurai
Ayako Sakurai obtained a PhD in history of science at the University of Cambridge in 2007. Her d...
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Aleksandar Shopov
Aleksandar Shopov is a historian with interests in economic and environmental histories of the O...
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