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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...

Freitag, den 24. November - Sonntag, den 26. November 2023, im Kollegienhaus, Universitätsstraße 15, 91054 Erlangen. Die diesjährige Tagung der "Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien" (DVCS) findet zum ersten Mal an der FAU statt, organisiert vom Lehrstuhl für Sinologie mit Schwerpunkt für Geist...

Eberhard Knobloch’s work is a pillar in the history of mathematics as it is practised today. The richness of his contributions attests to the many fruitful collaborations he was able to establish during his career, within a scientific community of which he is undoubtedly a driving force. For his ...

In his book Trust in Numbers, Ted Porter said that journalists and officials “have very limited ability” to rework the contingent statistical categories into different ones. This observation could strike a chord with those who saw how Western news (and Chinese social media) responded to China’s deci...