China Dissertations in France (5). History
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...
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...
Huang Bamei and Faina Chiang Fang-liang. Source: Academia Historica, 005-030203-00006, “Jiang Fang-liang zhaopian ziliao jiji” (1949, 4) A few weeks ago, I published an article on the life of Huang Bamei 黃八妹 (1906–1982)— a...
In the last few months we tried to build a corpus based on the biographies of the Chinese Wikipedia. The reason for having such a corpus is that we can use it for future...
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...
Last week Tuesday February 11, 2020, we were invited to present our current research in the workshop “Networks in East Asia: Methods and Case Studies” at the University of Bristol. It was an opportunity...
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...