Publications
Authored Books
Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity. Essays on the Global Historical Entanglements of the Science of Numbers in China
Cham: Springer, 2019
ISBN: 9783319936949
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93695-6
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The Body and Military Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China: The Art of Governing Soldiers
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4985-3168-9
URL: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498531689/The-Body-and-Military-Masculinity-in-Late-Qing-and-Early-Republican-China-The-Art-of-Governing-Soldiers
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Re-Kreation eines mathematischen Konzeptes im chinesischen Diskurs: ‘Reihen’ vom 1. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert
Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 1999
(Boethius, Vol.42)
ISBN: 978-3-515-07451-3
URL: https://www.steiner-verlag.de/Re-Kreation-eines-mathematischen-Konzeptes-im-chinesischen-Diskurs/9783515074513
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Journal Articles
Arunabh Ghosh, Making it Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China
In: East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 54 (2022), p. 323-327
ISSN: 1562-918X
DOI: 10.1163/26669323-20220007
URL: https://brill.com/view/journals/east/54/2/article-p323_010.xml
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Charlotte-V Pollet, The Empty and the Full: Li Ye and the Way of Mathematics. Geometrical Procedures by Sections of Areas
In: East Asian Science, Technology and Society 16 (2022), p. 136-139
ISSN: 1875-2160
DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2021.2020998
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«History of Science and Technology in China»: une histoire vue de l’intérieur de la Chine
In: Revue des Questions Scientifiques 193 (2022), p. 157-164
ISSN: 0035-2160
URL: https://www.rqs.be/app/views/revue.php?id=553
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Wu Dingliang (1894–1969) and the Statistical Definition of a Chinese Race
In: Histoire et Mesure 37 (2022), p. 71-98
ISSN: 0982-1783
DOI: 10.4000/histoiremesure.15764
URL: https://journals.openedition.org/histoiremesure/15789
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Microbic Mass Destruction - Biological Warfare and Epidemic Prevention in Republican China
In: East Asian Science, Technology and Society (2022)
ISSN: 1875-2160
DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2021.1984009
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Cracking bones and numbers: solving the enigma of numerical sequences on ancient Chinese artifacts
In: Archive For History of Exact Sciences 74 (2020), p. 313-343
ISSN: 0003-9519
DOI: 10.1007/s00407-019-00245-9
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Playing soldiers: The war game in late qing and Republican China
In: Journal of Chinese Military History 9 (2020), p. 38-64
ISSN: 2212-7445
DOI: 10.1163/22127453-BJA10003
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(Philo-)Logica-Mathematica –Giovanni Vacca’s (1872-1953) attempts of translation between mathematical formulas and Chinese text via simplified Latin
In: Geschichte der Germanistik 55/56 (2019), p. 16 - 33
ISSN: 1613-0758
DOI: 10.5771/9783835343740-16
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Scarred Dragon. Historical Trauma Narratives in the Graphic Novels of Li Kunwu and Gene Luen Yan
In: ImageTexT : Interdisciplinary Comics Studies Volume 10 (2018)
ISSN: 1549-6732
Open Access: https://imagetextjournal.com/scarred-dragon-historical-trauma-narratives-in-the-graphic-novels-of-li-kunwu-and-gene-luen-yang/
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Euclide en Chine ou: comment faire communiquer différentes cultures mathématiques ?
In: Repères 109 (2017), p. 5 - 22
ISSN: 1157-285X
Open Access: https://publimath.univ-irem.fr/numerisation/WR/IWR17013/IWR17013.pdf
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Imagined Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounter by Roger Hart
In: Mathematical Intelligencer 38 (2016), p. 80-82
ISSN: 0343-6993
DOI: 10.1007/s00283-015-9598-x
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What Diagrams Argue in Late Imperial Chinese Combinatorial Texts
In: Early Science and Medicine 20 (2015), p. 241-264
ISSN: 1573-3823
DOI: 10.1163/15733823-00203p02
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Homo ludens mathematicus: La quantification du hasard dans les pratiques combinatoires en Chine [Homo ludens mathematicus: The Quantification of Chance in Combinatorial Practices in China]
In: Études Chinoises 33 (2014), p. 73--102
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War und ist Mathematik in China anders? Ein Ausblick auf historische Narration und neue Trends
In: Mitteilungen der Mathematischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg 33 (2013)
ISSN: 0340-4358
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Divination with Hexagrams as Combinatorial Practice
In: Studies of Zhouyi = Zhouyi-yanjiu 周易研究 8 (2012), p. 157-174
ISSN: 1003-3882
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统计学在近代中国的演变——从社会统计到数理统计
In: Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) (2010), p. 61-67
ISSN: 1008-7095
URL: http://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTOTAL-SHJX201003009.htm
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Robert Hart and China's statistical revolution
In: Modern Asian Studies 40 (2006), p. 605 - 629
ISSN: 0026-749X
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X06002101
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Book Contributions
Hexagrams and Mathematics: Symbolic Approaches to Prediction from the Song to the Qing
In: Tze-ki Hon (ed.): The Other Yijing. The Book of Changes in Chinese History, Politics, and Everyday Life, Leiden: Brill, 2021, p. 192-220 (Prognostication in History, Vol.8)
ISBN: 978-90-04-50003-7
DOI: 10.1163/9789004500037_009
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Stalk and Other Divination Traditions Prior to the Changes Canon: Views from Newly-Discovered Texts
In: Tze-ki Hon (ed.): The Other Yijing. The Book of Changes in Chinese History, Politics, and Everyday Life, Leiden: Brill, 2021, p. 23-68 (Prognostication in History, Vol.8)
ISBN: 978-90-04-50003-7
DOI: 10.1163/9789004500037_003
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Inductive Arguments in the Midst of Smoke: “Proving” Rhetorically and Visually That Algorithms Work
In: Martin Hofmann, Joachim Kurtz, Ari Daniel Levine (ed.): Powerful Arguments - Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China, Leiden: Brill, 2020, p. 234-276 (Sinica Leidensia, Vol.146)
ISBN: 9789004423626
DOI: 10.1163/9789004423626_007
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Statistics
In: Howard Chiang (ed.): Human Sciences in China, Brill, 2019, p. 303–336 (China Studies, Vol.40)
ISBN: 9789004397620
DOI: 10.1163/9789004397620_017
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400 Millionen - Globale Wirkungen einer mächtigen Zahl
In: Haas, Stefan; Schneider, Michael C.; Bilo, Nicolas (ed.): Die Zählung der Welt. Kulturgeschichte der Statistik vom 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019, p. 215 - 232 (Studien zur Alltags- und Kulturgeschichte, Vol.32)
ISBN: 978-3-515-12117-0
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Andere Mythen. Geschichte, Trauma und Nation in Boxers and Saints
In: Tanja Zimmermann (ed.): Geschichte und Mythos in Comics und Graphic Novels, Berlin: Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag, 2019, p. 143-156
ISBN: 143-156
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How to quantify the value of domino combinations? Divination and shifting rationalities in late imperial China
In: Michael Lackner (ed.): Coping with the Future, Brill Academic Publishers, 2018, p. 499-529 (Sinica Leidensia, Vol.138)
DOI: 10.1163/9789004356788_020
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Numbers as Signs. Recreative reflections on conceptual entanglements between mathematics, divination and language in the modern era
In: Iwo Amelung, Joachim Kurtz (ed.): Reading the Signs: Language, History, and Prognostication. Festschrift for Michael Lackner, München: Iudicium, 2018, p. 429 - 453
ISBN: 978-3-86205-615-6
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Militärische Professionalisierung und Inszenierung. Das taktische Kriegsspiel in China in der ersten
Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
In: Karen Aydin (ed.): Games of Empires. Kulturhistorische Konnotationen von Brettspielen in transnationalen und imperialen Kontexten, Münster: LIT Verlag, 2018
ISBN: 978-3643138804
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Das Verhältnis von indischer, arabischer und westlicher Mathematik zueinander – ist die Mathematik kulturabhängig?
In: Otfried Höffe, Jörg Hacker (ed.): Wissenschaften im interkulturellen Dialog – Sciences in the Intercultural Dialogue, Halle: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2017, p. 81 - 98 (Nova Acta Leopoldina, Vol.414)
ISBN: 978-3-8047-3705-1
URL: https://www.leopoldina.org/en/publications/detailview/publication/wissenschaften-im-interkulturellen-dialog-sciences-in-the-intercultural-dialogue/
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Meng Sen and Shen Linyi: two actors, two careers in the history of modern statistics in China
In: Catherine Jami (ed.): Human Mobility and the Circulation of Scientific and Technical Knowledge in Late Imperial China, Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, 2017, p. 267 - 293 (Bibliothèque de l'Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, Vol.XXXIX)
ISBN: 978-2-85757-077-6
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Logik und Universalsprache - Leibniz’ Ideen 200 Jahre später
In: Martin Grötschel, Eberhard Knobloch, Juliane Schiffers, Mimmi Woisnitza, Günter M. Ziegler (ed.): Vision als Aufgabe. Das Leibniz-Universum im 21. Jahrhundert, Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2016, p. 277 - 297
ISBN: 978-3-939818-67-0
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History of mathematics education in East Asia in premodern times
In: Alexander Karp, Gert Schubring (ed.): Handbook on the History of Mathematics Education, New York: Springer, 2014, p. 153-174
ISBN: 978-1-4614-9154-5
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9155-2_8
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On the Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge in Versified Form in China
In: Alain Bernard, Christine Proust (ed.): Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives, Dordrecht: Springer Nature, 2014, p. 155-185 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Vol.301)
ISBN: 978-94-007-5121-7
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5122-4_7
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China
In: Robin Wilson, John J. Watkins (ed.): Combinatorics: Ancient and Modern, Oxford University Press, 2013, p. 65-82
ISBN: 9780199656592
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199656592.003.0003
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Survey the People. The Emergence of Population Statistics as Technology of Government in Early 20th
Century China.
In: Antje Flüchter
Susan Richter (ed.): Structures on the Move. Technologies of Governance in Transcultural Encounters, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, p. 87-103
ISBN: 978-3642192876
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Usages et destins des savoirs mathématiques dans les Encyclopédies aux dix mille trésors des Ming
In: Annick Horiuchi (ed.): Pratiques lettrées au Japon et en Chine XVIIe-XIXe siècle, 2011, p. 103 - 123 (Études Japonaises, Vol.V)
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Knowledge and Practice of Mathematics in Late Ming Daily life Encyclopedias
In: Florence Bretelle-Establet (ed.): Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science, Springer, 2010, p. 305-329 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science book series, Vol.265)
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3676-6_10
URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-3676-6_10
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Edited Volumes
早期统计学家传略分册
Peking 北京: 2020
(中华生物医学统计大辞典 (Chinese Dictionaries of Biology, Medicine, and Statistics))
ISBN: 9787503794322
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Chimie et Révolution. La chimie au lendemain des révolutions. De l’après-Lavoisier à Gay-Lussac à l’Ecole polytechnique
Palaiseau: 2012
(Bulletin de la SABIX, Vol. 50)
URL: http://www.sabix.org/bulletin/sabixb50.htm
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Conference Contributions
Surveying the Coast: Theory and Practice as Reflected in Mathematical Sources and Maps
海洋、空間意識與文化交會: 第二屆輿圖學國際學術研討會 (Oceans, Consciousness of Space and Cultural Interflow: The Second International Symposium of Cartography) (Institute of Taiwan History at Academia Sinica, National Palace Museum and National Tsing-Hua University, 27. November 2012 - 29. November 2012)
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4622.6007
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A summation algorithm from 11th century China. Possible relations between structure and argument
4th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2008 (, 15. June 2008 - 20. June 2008)
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2008
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69407-6_8
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Thesis
Reform, Bureaucratic Expansion and Production of Numbers: Statistics in China at the Turn of the 20th Century (Habilitation, 2008)
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Miscellaneous
Jean-Claude Martzloff: Le calendrier chinois: structure et calculs (104 av. J.-C.-1644). Indétermination céleste et réforme permanente. La construction chinoise officielle du temps quotidien discret à partir d’un temps mathématique caché, linéaire et continu
In: Historia Mathematica 39 (2012), p. 335-338
ISSN: 0315-0860
DOI: 10.1016/j.hm.2012.01.001
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