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15OCT 2021
Event
IKGF (hybrid) Lecture Series
During the winter term 2021/2022 the IKGF organizes a lecture series on the Consortium’s theme Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe. It takes place on Tuesdays, 6:15 pm–7:45 pm CEST (US East Coast: 12:15 pm–1:45 pm EDT; China: 0:15 am–1:45 am CST). The lectures will be […]
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10OCT 2021
Event
(Online) Colloquium Global History
Jointly organized by the History Department and the Chair for Sinology, a series of four online talks will take place during the winter term 2021/22: 28.10.2021 My World in War and Revolution: A Comparative History of the Modern Diary in the East and West by Aaron Moore (University of Edinburgh) 09.12.2021 Stoffe, Perlchen, […]
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06AUG 2021
Statistical Snippets
It’s all in the scale
From a geometrical point of view, what was published in a collection of statistical data from Shanghai in the first year of the People’s Republic, can not really be called a population “pyramid”. The graph is rather akin to a cylindric accordion. Looking closely at the vertical scale, one will notice that the horizontal bars […]
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19JUL 2021
Statistical Snippets
Visualizing Progress
What can be termed a “statistical procession” took place on May 1st 1955, when workers and technicians from the Second National General Tire Plant 國營第二橡膠總廠 in Qingdao displayed their six-year production of rubber tires from 1949 to 1954. What looks like a linear growth in total production actually corresponds to a highly unstable augmentation rate: […]
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02APR 2021
Seminars
Eine Kulturgeschichte der Zahlen: von Orakelknochen und Big Data
In this seminar Prof. Bréard presents a cultural and epistemological approach to the numerical and numerological significance of numbers in divinatory texts and other contexts in early and late imperial as well as modern China. As an overarching theme, readings and discussions will address “Numbers and Narratives”, outlining a cultural history of quantification that examines […]
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02APR 2021
Seminars
Defining the Chinese “race” in 20th century China
In the early twentieth century, defining Chinese characteristics in quantitative terms allowed comparisons and provided scientific answers in the search for the relative position of the Chinese in the historical evolution of human beings and the origins of mankind that challenged earlier culturally defined notions of a Chinese race. In this seminar, Prof. Dr. Andrea […]
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