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The sudden decision by China’s National Bureau of Statistics to delay indefinitely the release of G.D.P. and other economic statistics while the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China takes place in Beijing has created much consternation among financial analysts and economic observer...

The project “Networks of knowledge about China: on the analysis and creation of complex disciplinary spaces” concerns the history of science and disciplines: it deals with actors in the circulation of knowledge with China since the middle of the 19th century. They are analyzed in terms of their comp...

Plotting the population data of Hubei Province as given on the website of China's National Bureau of Statistics 国家统计局 reveals a striking pattern: a sensational exodus out of the Province between the end of 2019 and 2020. With 3,07% less, or, in absolute terms,  a drop from 59.27 to 57.45 million, th...

We are pleased to announce our upcoming conference on "Biographies of Numbers" organized by the sin-aps research group. It takes place from July 7-9, 2022, you can join us in person or via Zoom. For a detailed program please click here. The conference explores the life of numerically framed knowl...

Die von Prof. Dr. Alfred Nordmann am Institut für Philosophie der TU Darmstadt organisierte Reihe und die dazugehörigen Workshops betrachten kompositorische Praxis als Erschließung von Werken und Welten, somit als einen Erkenntnisprozess. Dabei wird untersucht inwiefern durch unterschiedliche Kompos...

Die „Kunst der diskreten Akkumulationen“ oder: Kombinatorik in China - Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard - In mathematischen Texten der Vormoderne Chinas wurden logische Schlussfolgerungen nur selten explizit formuliert, geschweige denn formalisiert. Dennoch wäre es falsch, den Jesuitenkomme...

Chinesische Statistik zwischen Globalisierung und sozialistischen Charakteristiken - Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) - Im Gegensatz zu den abstrakten Zahlen der reinen Mathematik sind statistische Zahlen immer sozial und politisch konstruiert. In diesem Vortrag soll...

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 w...

Within the framework of the research seminar Histoire et philosophie des mathématiques of the research group SPHERE (CNRS, Paris), Karine Chemla, Nicolas Michel and Arilès Remaki have organized a hybrid workshop on "Diagrams and Calculations" on May 23rd, 2022. Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard will present a...

The application of various technologies for plowing, harrowing, sowing and harvesting were propagated as better tools than manual labor particularly in the early years of the PRC. In a very obvious way the superiority of tractors in agricultural production is acknowledged in the image here...