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A Price History of Ming China
This research project examines that most basic fact of economic history—prices—in China during the Ming period (1368–1644), though particularly its se
The Reception of Latitude and Longitude in Early Modern China, 1644–1900
This project examines Qing scholars’ effort to integrate conventional Chinese cartographical practice and the Jesuit-style latitude-longitude coordina
He BIAN
He Bian studied History of Science at Harvard University and graduated with a PhD in 2014. She h...
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Guildhalls: A Network of Hybrid Socio-Religious Spaces for Migrant Communities in China
Guildhalls (huiguan 會館) are socio-religious spaces that developed in China as gathering places for communities of migrant merchants from a common geog
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Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Material Culture in Early Modern China, 1500-1800
This project examines the crucial period between sixteenth and eighteenth century in Chinese cultural history through the lens of pharmacy – broadly c
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The Cambridge Cockpit and the Paradoxes of Fatigue
I am researching and writing a book which has the provisional title of The Cambridge Cockpit. The aim is to analyze the work of the Psycholo
Economics as a Coordination Tool: Investment Planning in Électricité de France, from Nationalization to the '70s
This project focuses on the electricity sector in postwar France and a series of tools developed for investment planning by a small group of engineer-
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School Library Book Collections in Ming, Qing, and Republican China
To understand intellectual life and knowledge production, it is critical to examine the circulation of information. In 1996, Timothy Brook published a
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Mineral Building Materials in China. Rediscovering Built Environments in the Large Datasets of Difangzhi, 10–20th Centuries
This project revisits construction activities in China by utilizing large datasets of the Chinese local gazette Difangzhi, dating from the tenth
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