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Madhu Narayanan
Madhu Narayanan is a PhD candidate at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian I...
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On Intelligence Tests: Psychological Objects and Their Subjects
On Intelligence Tests employs multi-disciplinary tools and artistic research methods to critically examine the aesthetic, material, and affective powe
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
Adrian Pirtea
Adrian C. Pirtea (PhD, 2017) is a historian of late antique and medieval Western Asia, specializ...
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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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Si Yen Fei
Siyen Fei received her PhD from Stanford University in 2004. She teaches and researches Chinese ...
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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
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Science Social 04: "The 'How' of 'How-To?'"
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