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Qiao YANG

Research Scholar (Nov 2020-Nov 2024)

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YANG Qiao 楊巧 works on institutions of knowledge, with a special focus on China and the Islamic world in the Mongol era (13th–14th centuries). Her doctoral project, Heavenly Knowledge, World Empire: Practices, Institutions and Exchange of Astral Sciences in Mongol Eurasia, examined the interplay between the Mongol Empire and astral sciences. She has published on biographies and networks of astral science experts in Mongol Eurasia. At the MPIWG, Qiao is the leader of the “Ability and Authority” working group, where she is developing a project on the local state divination schools in Yuan (1271–1368) China. Qiao’s research interests include history of astronomy/astrology, history of divination, social and cultural history of the Mongol Empire, and cross-cultural contact between premodern China and the Islamic world.

Projects

Ability and Authority

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Heavenly Knowledge, World Empire

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Scientific Exchange in Mongol Eurasia: Astronomers and Physicians in the Mongol Empire

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Past Events

Conference

The Golden Horde: Art, Material Culture, and Architecture

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Symposium

Migration, Mobility, and Expertise

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Workshop

Empire under the Night Sky: The Role of Fenye (Astrological Contents) in Late Imperial China

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Talk

City Walls, Excavations, and Explosives: New Sources on Innovative Engineering in the Late Tang

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Colloquium

Revulsion as Prevention: Emotional Science and the Mobilisation of Sensibility in Late 19th-century Russian Public Medicine

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Colloquium

Religious Contexts of Discourses on Nature: The Comet of 1577 in Early-Modern Germany

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Colloquium

Depicting Time: The Visualisation of the Planetary Deities and the Seven-Day Astrological Week in the Graeco-Roman World

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Colloquium

Ignorance and Its Resources: China and Beyond

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Colloquium

The "Ecological" Origins and Consequences of the Rodent Bait Station

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Colloquium

Ritual Healing through Sealing (7th -12th-century China): Materiality and the Healer’s Body in the Earliest Examples of Medical “Palm Formulas” (zhangjue 掌訣)

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Primary Source Discussion Group

Ability and Authority

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Primary Source Discussion Group

Ability and Authority

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Colloquium

Practicing Astral Sciences, Practicing Power

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Primary Source Discussion Group

How to Make Maps

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News & Press

Thyssen Grant awarded to Qiao Yang for "The Golden Horde: Art, Material Culture, Architecture 1227–1502"

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