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The Hermeneutics of Judgment and Critiques of Technology
In this project, I seek to understand critiques of technology after World War II by arguing that technological choices are inherently moral choices. D
The City as Nature: An Intellectual History of the City in Middle-Period China, 800–1150
Imperial officials of the Song Empire (960–1279 CE) confronted a complex, monetized society. The colonization, between the ninth and eleventh centurie
When is Evidence Enough? The Pangea Controversy and the Drift of Evidence
In 1912, Alfred Wegener, a German climatologist and geophysicist, made public his theory about Pangea. He suggested that in a remote past there was a
Interpretation of the Cambridge Cockpit Experiments
During the 1940s, members of the Psychological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge worked closely with the Royal Air Force on problems connected
Famine Plant Manuals in the Sinosphere (1406–1800)
This project examines the dynamics of knowledge production and transcultural interactions in the early modern Sinosphere by investigating the establis
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The MPIWG Chinese Map Collection: Typological Parallels and “Historical” Layers
This project investigates a group of six Chinese maps, presumably dating from the nineteenth to twentieth century, acquired by the MPIWG in 2016 from
Qun Che
Qun Che obtained her doctorate in History of Science and Technology at Shanghai Jiaotong Univers...
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The WebGIS Platform of Historical Maps of China
The WebGIS Platform of Historical Maps of China, conducted by the history department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTUMAPGIS), is a combined GIS
This project first focused on military maps of premodern China. All maps are scanned at high resolution (600dpi), and then geo-referenced. The WebGIS
Digital Resource, Project_DeptSchaefer_WebGIS.png, Land Survey Maps of China: A Cartographic Database (1885–1945), https://chmap.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/
Presentation, Project_DeptSchaefer_WebGIS_LoGaRT_2020.png, "Visualizing Geographies of Late Qing and Republican China" Workshop, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4281192