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Agriculture, Soil, and Concepts of Nature in Late Ming Farming Manuals
Although many Chinese farming manuals (nongshu 農書) contain detailed information on proper methods for tilling the soil, such as plowing, harrowing, or
Translatability and Innovation: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544) in Translation between Languages, Media, and Practices
Translation is an intellectual product that is as much determined by its past in the source domain as it is shaped by its future in the target domain.
Changes and Continuities in Concepts of Sound in Early Medieval China, (4–6 Century CE.)
Between China’s third century BCE and third century CE, scholar-officials thought of sound as a cosmic phenomenon to be measured, calcu
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Insects as a Global Commodity: Collecting Specimens in Early 20th-century Taiwan
This project focuses on practices and concepts surrounding the collecting and trading of insects in early twentieth-century Taiwan. It explores the or
Lara Keuck to Lead New Research Group on Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences
Lara Keuck to lead new Research Group on "Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences"
Jun 25, 2020Validierungspraktiken in den biomedizinischen Wissenschaften: Lara Keuck leitet neue Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe
Lara Keuck leitet neue Forschungsgruppe zum Thema „Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences”
Jun 25, 2020The Diplomatic Corpus of Yuan China in Comparative Perspective: Training, Careers, Mobility
China is famous for not having a ministry of foreign affairs until the 1900s and yet diplomatic envoys were part and parcel of Chinese foreign policy