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Joseph Dennis
Joseph Dennis’s research focuses on the history of Chinese print culture, law, and society. He i...
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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Sci...
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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
Changes in Chinese Traditional General Maps: Two Late-Qing General Maps in the MPIWG Map Collection
This project focusses on two general maps of the late Qing Empire, Daqing tianxia zhonghua gesheng Fuzhou xianting dili quantu 大清天下中華各省府州縣廳地
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Archaeology of the Astral: Mingling of Astrological and Cosmological Ideas between Early Historic India and Roman Egypt
During his fellowship period at the MPIWG, Dr. Gupta is working on a project in conjunction with the "Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heave
The Recipes Project: Food, Magic, Art, Science, and Medicine
Recipes are deceptively simple: they encourage us to dig beneath and around a seemingly straightforward list of ingredients and directions, provoking
Edition Open Sources
Edition Open Sources (EOS) pioneers a new paradigm in publishing, devoted to open access and high-quality peer review. This collaborative scholarly en
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Project (CDLI)
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), a cooperation with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures of the University of Ca
Translation Terroirs: East Asia Between Autochthonous and Western Cartographic Languages
A map is a combination of graphic and text, and, by definition speaks two languages—the language of its toponyms and the language of its system cartog