Month: December 2021

The Chair for Sinology with a focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China — Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations — at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg invites applications for the position of a PhD student (f/m/d) with an interest in digital humanities and the la...

Together with Constance A. Cook, Andrea Bréard published  a chapter entitled "Stalk and Other Divination Traditions Prior to the Changes Canon: Views from Newly-Discovered Texts". It focuses on the earliest graphic inscriptions of groups of numbers found on a variety of media over the course of a mi...

A new publication by A. Bréard with the title "Hexagrams and Mathematics: Symbolic Approaches to Prediction from the Song to the Qing" appeared in Tze-ki Hon's edited volume The Other Yijing. The Book of Changes in Chinese History, Politics, and Everyday Life (Brill 2021). It analyzes the motivation...

In the early twentieth century, Chinese armies were badly lacking in medical care. The National Revolutionary Army of the Nanjing Government under Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) sought to increase the number of biomedically trained doctors and improve the application of scientific military medicine,...