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On July 12, Florian Keßler will present the sin-aps database at the Conference Charting the European D-SEA: Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies organised by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Staatsbibliotkek zu Berlin. The relational database was developed with HEU...

On May 11, The Third International Workshop on Hermeneutics of Science and Technology was held in Wuhu, Anhui Province at Anhui Normal University 安徽师范大学. This  academic symposium was jointly organized by the School of Marxism 马克思主义学院 of Anhui Normal University (Prof. Wu Guolin), the Institute for Ad...

On 19 August 2016, an unknown phone number reached 18-year-old Xu Yuyu in Linyi, Shandong. With information such as her address and high school, the callers claimed to be from local education and finance offices. Following their orders, she transferred her tuition fee to activate a bursary account f...

Understanding by Doing: Theorems and Construction Problems in Chinese translations of Euclid’s Elements Invited by Prof. Han Qi at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Department of Chinese History and Culture, Prof. Andrea Bréard will give a talk on Understanding by Doing: Theorems and Cons...

Im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe des China-Insituts an der Universität Frankfurt hält Frau Prof. Dr. Bréard einen Vortrag zum Thema: Die chinesische Zahlenfabrik: Statistik im Spannungsfeld zwischen internationalen Standards und „chinesischen Eigenschaften“ Seit der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ...

During one month, in March 2024, Prof. Andrea Bréard will be Visiting Professor at the Centre de recherches historiques (CRH) of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She will give four seminars during her stay: 1. Séminaire de Pablo Blitstein et Alessandro Stanziani,...

The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies has opened a call for papers for a special issue on "Ciphering and Ruling China’s Population", guest-edited by Andrea Bréard and Stefan Christ. The call is in relation with the publication of papers presented at our July 2022 conference on ...

The journal Technology and Language has launched a new call for contributions that appeals to the interests not only of philosophers, linguists, and literary scholars, but also of cultural studies, biomimetics, mathematics and engineering. “Translation - Theory and Technology” (deadline: Oct 5, 2...

Conceptualizing ‘One’ (一): Working Towards a ‘Unified’ Understanding  Similar to many languages in the world, numbers display a variety of meanings in Chinese and other East Asian languages that borrowed the characters associated with them from Han China. As Marcel Granet (1934) who discusses num...

A new book by Prof. Andrea Bréard has been published in the book series Bibliothèque Chinoise (Paris: Les Belles Lettres). On 704 pages, you will find a Chinese edition and a French translation of Li Shanlan's Duoji bilei 垛積比類 (Analogical Categories of Discrete Accumulations) from 1867, with a histo...