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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 mi...

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 motivation...

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,...

In China hat sich die Mathematik (shuxue 數學, wörtlich: die Lehre von den Zahlen) bis ins 19. Jahrhundert fast unabhängig von anderen Traditionen entwickelt. Dabei wird ihr oft vorgeworfen, intuitiv und ohne Beweiskonzept vorgegangen zu sein. In diesem Vortrag soll anhand einiger einfacher Beispiele ...

On Friday, 12 November 2021, Dr. Nicolas Schillinger will present a paper on "The Muscular Chinese – Masculinity, Male Bodies and Fascist Fantasies in Republican China (1930s-40s)" at the online workshop Gendering Fascism. Organisations, Bodies, Representations organised by Andrea Germer and Jasmin ...

Les 8 et 9 novembre 2021 aura lieu à Paris à l'Institut Henri Poincaré (amphi Darboux) le colloque 2021 de la Revue d’histoire des mathématiques en partenariat avec le Séminaire d’histoire des mathématiques de l’IHP. Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard y présentera une intervention sur "Le coefficient de simili...

Im Rahmen des IKGF Humanities Festival der FAU, spricht Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard am 24. Oktober 2021 über offizielle chinesische Statistiken. Zweifel an deren Verlässlichkeit sind angebracht, selbst wenn der Großteil der westlichen Medien diese unkritisch verwendet. Der Vortrag hinterfragt die Produk...

At the First Meeting of the Regional Group 'FRANKEN' of the Deutsche Gesellschaft der Humboldtianer (DGHV), Prof. Andrea Bréard will present a talk on The Challenges of Interdisciplinarity, or how to combine mathematics with sinology? When: Thursday, 28.10.2021 at 6 pm (until about 8 pm) Where: Au...

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 ...

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 notic...