Author: Christian Henriot
The present blog post has benefited from the insights and inputs of Prof. Isabelle Thireau, senior research fellow, CNRS. The author bears sole responsibility for the views expressed in the text that follows. The...
The ENP-China project initiates a series of webinars based on the research output of its members. These sessions aim at presenting work in progress and discussing the challenges of doing historical research with the...
With the present blog post, I begin a review of dissertations on China by discipline. I do not intend to cover each and every discipline, first because some of them represent too small a...
This post will examine the sites of production of dissertations on China. Which institutions are involved in training specialists of China? How are they distributed across the country? We shall see that France —...
This is a short synthesis of reflections that have been building up since the beginning of the project. Mostly, it came from the growing sense of the formidable opportunity that digital methods and sources...
This blog post examines dissertation committees. It is a modest attempt to explore network analysis methods on a small sample of data. Dissertation committees The standard practice in French academia to receive the Ph.D....
In this second blog post, I focus on the actors, both the authors of dissertations — Ph.D. degree holders — and their advisors. Despite the limitations of information, much can be learned about the...
This is the first installment of a series of posts on the production of doctoral dissertations on China in France. My initial impulse was to examine more specifically doctoral dissertations in history, as...
by Robert Bickers, Bristol University SOAS, also rightly seen as an area studies centre, occupies a different place, in that it had a history department in which students took a general history degree, though...
The text that follows was written for the “Bluebook on Chinese studies” currently under compilation by the GIS Asie at the request of the Ministry of Research in France. It is meant to serve...
On 7 February 2020, the ENP-China project will receive Prof. Elisabeth Kaske (Leipzig University), a foremost historian of late Qing China in Germany with a broad range of academic interests. She is the author...
The ENP-China project is pleased to announce the inclusion of a new member, David Serfass, associate professor in Chinese and East Asian history at Inalco (Paris) and a member of IFRAE (French Research Institute...
Baptiste is the successful applicant of the doctoral fellowship that the ENP-China project opened in late spring 2019 in NLP (Natural Language Processing). He is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program doctoral in computing...
The ENP-China project is privileged to welcome Dr. Jiang Jie from Shanghai Normal University. Dr. Jiang has been in France for just one month, but he will remain affiliated with us during his one-year...
The ENP-China project is very pleased to welcome a new team member, Nora Van den Bosch, who is joining the project as our data scientist. The search for the position of data scientist has...