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30MAR 2023
News
New publication: « Global History of Quantification – how about China? »
A new publication (in French) by Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard with the title “Histoire globale de la quantification – et la Chine ?” appeared on the blog Histoires et Mesures of the journal Histoire & Mesure (EHESS). It is the second in a series of Digital Re-editions, which, drawing on the digital resources of Histoire […]
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01FEB 2023
News
New publication: Wu Dingliang (1894–1969) and the Statistical Definition of the Chinese Race
A new publication by Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard with the title “Wu Dingliang (1894–1969) and the Statistical Definition of the Chinese Race” appeared in the journal Histoire & Mesure XXXVII-1 (EHESS, 2022). By focusing upon the scientific work and network of Wu Dingliang 吳定良, this article looks at the statistical construction of a notion of the […]
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24MAY 2022
News
New Publication: Biological Warfare in Republican China
Dr. Nicolas Schillinger published a new article on Microbic Mass Destruction – Biological Warfare and Epidemic Prevention in Republican China in the journal East Asian Science, Technology and Society (2022). Against the background of the first half of the twentieth century, when the possibility of weaponizing bacteria and waging a biological war became a frequently […]
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28APR 2022
Economic Statistics
The View by Ziang Liu
Dr. Liu Ziang has published a new Op-Ed in the South China Morning Post entitled China’s plan to unify its domestic market will create cohesion, but at the expense of local needs. It is in reaction to the Chinese government’s “Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of a Unified Domestic Market” released on April 10 and builds upon his […]
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20DEC 2021
Algorithms
New joint publication by Constance A. Cook and A. Bréard
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 millennium and demonstrates that, contrary to the later […]
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10DEC 2021
Algorithms
New Publication: Hexagrams and Mathematics
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 motivations and solutions of several Song to Qing dynasty […]
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