Tristan G. Brown is a social and cultural historian of late imperial and modern China. His research focuses on the ways in which law, science, environment, and religion interacted in China from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries. His first book, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (forthcoming), examines the roles fengshui played in the Qing's administration, particularly its legal system. At the MPIWG, he is collaborating with the “Local Gazetteers” Working Group on fenye (correlative astrology) in Chinese local gazetteers.
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Selected Publications
Brown, Tristan Gerard, ed. (2024). Empire under the Night Sky: Recording Astral-Cosmography in Qing Dynasty China, 17th–19th Centuries. Special issue, HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology 18 (1). https://sciendo.com/issue/HOST/18/1.
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Brown, Tristan Gerard (2024). “From Fenye to Fengshui: Applying Correlative Cosmography in Late Imperial China.” HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology 18 (1): 61–85. https://doi.org/10.2478/host-2024-0004.
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Brown, Tristan Gerard (2024). “Introduction: Empire under the Night Sky: Recording Astral-Cosmography in Qing Dynasty China, 17th–19th Centuries.” HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology 18 (1): 1–5. https://doi.org/10.2478/host-2024…
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Brown, Tristan Gerard (2023). Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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