ENP-China Web Platform
Hi Folks! We are pleased to announce today the launching of the ENP-China web platform. ENP-China stands for Elites, Networks, and Power in Modern Urban China. This is an on-going Advanced Grant project funded...
Hi Folks! We are pleased to announce today the launching of the ENP-China web platform. ENP-China stands for Elites, Networks, and Power in Modern Urban China. This is an on-going Advanced Grant project funded...
The ENP-China team is very pleased to announce the arrival of Professor Marc Matten (Erlangen University). Prof. Matten has elected to join the ENP-China team during his half-year sabbatical leave (1 September 2020-31 March...
Thomas Larkin, post-graduate researcher (Bristol University, Hong Kong History project) will hold a webinar on “Creating and Maintaining Transnational Networks in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong” in the ENP-China Webinar series on 22 September 2020 9h00-11h00)....
The ENP-China project is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow in Natural Language Processing to conduct research and develop tools in accordance with the aims of the project. The position comes with a one-year fixed...
The domain of Chinese studies reflects both an institutional setup — the existence of departments of Chinese studies, with affiliated Ph.D. programs, and an intellectual history that takes its roots in “Sinology”. Although the...
The ENP-China project is extremely proud and privileged to count Prof. Marilyn Levine, Central Washington University, as a member of the team. Prof. Levine brings unmatched experience in both historical research on modern China...
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...
In the past decade, with the spread of concepts and methods related to digital humanities and digital history in China, and the continuous deepening of the historical data digitization movement, more and more Chinese...
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...