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.
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Selected Publications
Yang, Qiao and Jinsong Guo (2023). “Astronomy under Mongol Rule.” In Oxford Bibliographies: Chinese Studies, ed. T. Wright. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199920082-0213.
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Yang, Qiao (2023). “Lire le ciel et représenter la terre.” In Les Mongols et le monde: l’autre visage de l’Empire de Gengis Khan, ed. M. Favereau, 221–233. Nantes: Les Éditions du Château des Ducs de Bretagne.
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Past Events
Colloquium
Beyond Translation: Multilingual Practices in the Transmission of Islamicate Astral Sciences to 13th–14th-Century China
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Empire under the Night Sky: The Role of Fenye (Astrological Contents) in Late Imperial China
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City Walls, Excavations, and Explosives: New Sources on Innovative Engineering in the Late Tang
MOREColloquium
Revulsion as Prevention: Emotional Science and the Mobilisation of Sensibility in Late 19th-century Russian Public Medicine
MOREColloquium
Religious Contexts of Discourses on Nature: The Comet of 1577 in Early-Modern Germany
MOREColloquium
Depicting Time: The Visualisation of the Planetary Deities and the Seven-Day Astrological Week in the Graeco-Roman World
MOREColloquium
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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