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10JAN 2022
Economic Statistics
Precarious Predictions – how many “ifs” does it take?
On December 4th, The Economist reported the following in an article entitled Omicronomics : If the Omicron variant is more infectious than other strains, it will increase the likelihood of covid-19 outbreaks in China, leading to more frequent lockdowns. If the restrictions were as severe as those […]
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28DEC 2021
Jobs
Hiring: 1 PhD Student (65%, E13 TV-L, 3 years)
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 language of modern science in China, in […]
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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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06DEC 2021
Medical Statistics
Soldiers’ woes in a pie
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, including areas such as surgery, inner medicine, hygiene, and epidemic prevention. The […]
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28NOV 2021
Seminars
Negotiating identities: Disablement in Chinese Writings
The notion of disability – as it is currently understood – first emerged in Europe no more than two centuries ago, brought about by the epistemological shift of modern science. In China, as well as in Europe, the concept played a central role in the development of the capitalist economic theories of the workforce, in […]
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