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  • What is Local Knowledge? Digital Humanities and Yuan Dynasty Disasters in Imperial China's Local Gazetteers

  • Dagmar Schäfer, Shih-pei Chen, Qun Che
  • Journal:
    Journal of Chinese History / Volume 4 / Issue 2 / July 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 August 2020, pp. 391-429
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  • This paper focuses on the historical politics of disaster records in Chinese local gazetteers (difangzhi 地方志). Using records of mulberry crop failures as examples, the authors ask how gazetteer editors collated Yuan disaster records—initially collected to help prevent disasters and authorize the legitimacy of dynastic rule—in gazetteers and, in so doing, made them into ‘local’ knowledge. Digital humanities methods allow for both qualitative and quantitative analyses, and the authors deploy them to demonstrate how, in structured texts like the Chinese local gazetteers, they could help combine close reading of specific sections and larger-scale analysis of regional patterns. In the first part, the authors show how disasters were recorded in a Yuan Zhenjiang gazetteer to facilitate taxation and disaster prevention locally—a strategy rarely traceable in subsequent gazetteers until the Qing. In the second part, the authors shifted their perspective to the historical accumulation of data and what that reveals about the reception of Yuan disasters: whereas local gazetteers from the north generate long chronologies of mulberry disasters from the Ming to the Qing, others depict the south as disaster-free.

  • Tables

  • Edited by Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
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    Animals through Chinese History
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    08 December 2018
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  • Acknowledgements

  • Edited by Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
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    Animals through Chinese History
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    13 December 2018, pp xii-xii
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  • Index

  • Edited by Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
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    Animals through Chinese History
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    08 December 2018
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    13 December 2018, pp 274-278
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  • Figures

  • Edited by Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
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    Animals through Chinese History
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  • Contents

  • Edited by Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
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    Animals through Chinese History
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    13 December 2018, pp v-vi
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  • Bibliography

  • Edited by Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
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    Animals through Chinese History
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    13 December 2018, pp 244-273
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  • 8 - Great Plans

  • Edited by Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
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    Animals through Chinese History
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    13 December 2018, pp 160-180
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  • Chronology of Dynasties

  • Edited by Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
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    Animals through Chinese History
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  • Contributors

  • Edited by Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
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  • Knowing Animals in China’s History

  • Edited by Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
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    Animals through Chinese History
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  • Copyright page

  • Edited by Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
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Animals through Chinese History
  • Earliest Times to 1911
  • Edited by Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schäfer
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  • This volume opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. As environmental historians turn their attention to expanded chronologies of natural change, something new can be said about human history through animals and about the globally diverse cultural and historical dynamics that have led to perceptions of animals as wild or cultures as civilized. This innovative collection of essays spanning Chinese history reveals how relations between past and present, lived and literary reality, have been central to how information about animals and the natural world has been processed and evaluated in China. Drawing on an extensive array of primary sources, ranging from ritual texts to poetry to veterinary science, this volume explores developments in the human-animal relationship through Chinese history and the ways in which the Chinese have thought about the world with and through animals. This title is also available as Open Access.

  • 12 - Technology and innovation within expanding webs of exchange

  • from Part III - Growing interactions
  • Edited by Benjamin Z. Kedar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  • Book:
    The Cambridge World History
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    05 May 2015
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    09 April 2015, pp 309-338

  • Summary

    This chapter addresses some major issues and methodological concerns emerging from the socio-historical view of technology and innovation. It discusses constitutive factors of cultural frameworks of innovation evident on the global stage, transmission processes, and the relation between ruling powers and technology. Historical studies of technologies, exchange, and innovation in the Middle Millennium have largely focused on the Eurasian continent, where empires, cultures, and individuals created oscillating spheres of influence and varying contact zones. In general, scribal cultures discuss technical abilities as part of evaluations of human work or artisanal expertise in comparison with various forms of scholarship. For a long time, historians of technology equated transmission processes with the rise of European power at the end of the sixteenth century. Changes in environmental circumstances or human migration into areas that required different equipment were at least as important as political and institutional frameworks in stimulating technological innovation.

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