Wu Jen-shu, (Ph.D., 1996) is a research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He has published several articles and monographs on the social, economic, and cultural history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, including Taste and Extravagance: Late Ming Consumer Society and the Gentry (Taipei, 2007); Good Citizens Turning Rebels: An Analysis of Urban Mass Collective Actions in Traditional China (Beijing, 2011); and Urban Pleasures: Leisure Consumption and Spatial Transformation in Jiangnan Cities during the Ming-Qing Period (Taipei, 2013); and The “Paradise” after Disaster: City Life of Suzhou during the Period of the Anti-Japanese War (Taipei, 2017). He is working on two different projects, one on women’s life in Suzhou city under Japanese occupation during W.W.II, and the other on local consumption and social change in 19th-century China.
Sun Huei-min is currently an associate research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her research interests include socio-cultural history, legal history, urban history, and the history of education. She is the author of Institutional Transplantation: The Chinese Lawyers in Republican Shanghai (1912-1937) (in Chinese, published in 2012), and one of the annotators of The Diaries of Pao T’ien-hsiao (1948-1949) (in Chinese, forthcoming). Based on her long-term studies of legal archives, news reports and personal accounts, she has been tracing the impact of housing problems on the lives of Shanghai’s urban population, especially in terms of public order and legal system attempts to regulate rights pertaining to urban properties.
Benoit Favre is currently an Associate Professor at Aix-Marseille University since 2010. He obtained his thesis in Computer Science from University of Avignon in 2007. He was a postdoc at UC Berkeley until 2009 and at University of Le Mans, in France until 2010. He is currently the head of Data Sciences at Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes, and of the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning master at the CS department of AMU. His research topics are automatic understanding of natural language with a focus on non canonical language such as spontaneous speech, social media and historical texts. He is interested in building the next generation of machine learning systems for natural language processing. He is co-author of more than 100 publications, member of IEEE SPS, IEEE SLTC, ISCA, AFCP.
Cécile Armand is a postdoctoral scholar in History. She recently received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Fellowship (2018), following a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University (2017-2018). Armand completed her Ph.D. at ENS Lyon on the spatial history of advertising in modern Shanghai (1905-1949). Her current research investigates the emergence of consumer societies and market cultures in modern China. Her contribution to the project consists in tracing the birth of a new brand of market professionals and experts – both Chinese and foreign, at the intersection of business, advertising, journalism, economic institutions, and social sciences. She will examine how these hybrid elites cooperated or competed in shaping market and consumer cultures in modern China. She relies on a wide range of primary sources and the combined use of various digital technologies (databases, SNA, GIS, textual analysis, and machine learning).
Luca Gabbiani is currently associate professor at the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO, Paris). He has headed the EFEO’s Taipei Center from 2007 to 2011 and the EFEO’s Beijing Center from 2011 to 2016. He presently teaches late imperial Chinese history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His main fields of research are late imperial China’s urban and legal history. He has published a book on the history of Beijing city management under the Qing dynasty, Pékin à l’ombre du Mandat céleste. Vie quotidienne et gouvernement urbain sous la dynastie Qing (1644-1911) (Paris, Editions de l’Ehess, 2011) and recently edited a volume on Chinese urban history: Urban Life in China, 15th-20th Centuries (Paris, Editions de l’EFEO, 2016).
Victor Louzon is an associate professor at the Faculty of Letters of Sorbonne University and a researcher at SIRICE (Sorbonne, Identités, Relations internationales et Civilisations de l’Europe). His work focuses on the contemporary history of East Asia, with a specialization in war, the militarization of society, and political violence in the Chinese world.
Jiang Jie is currently associate professor at the School of Humanities, Shanghai Normal University. He received his Ph.D. in history from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. His research field is social history, urban history and the methodologies of digital history. His is co-editor of the journal Studies of the History of French Concession in Shanghai 《上海法租界史研究》(in Chinese, 2016, 2017 and 2019), and executive-editor of the journal Studies of the Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai《上海抗战研究》(in Chinese, 2019). Recently, he has been working on a project: “How to research history in the digital era”.
David Serfass is an associate professor in Chinese and East Asian history at Inalco (Paris) and a member of IFRAE (French Research Institute for Eastern Asia). He completed his PhD at EHESS (Paris) on the Wang Jingwei government in occupied China (1940-1945). His current research pertains to civil servants in Republican China (1912-1949) and the evolution of China’s administrative map.
Baptiste is currently a postdoctoral fellow computing in the ENP-China project. Baptiste started in the project as a Ph.D. candidate in computing at Aix-Marseille University, with a specialty in A.I. and NLP (Natural Language Processing). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in December 2022. His research topic is centered on networks between historical events and the persons related to them.
Chin-Yin Tseng is a research fellow of the “Digital Dunhuang” Project at Dunhuang Academy. After completing her undergraduate studies at Stanford University in East Asian Studies, she received an MA degree in Regional Studies–East Asia at Harvard University and a DPhil in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. Her dissertation looked at the construct of material cultural expressions in the Northern Wei Pingcheng period (398–494 CE). She had then worked at Peking University as a post-doctoral fellow for three years, looking at the visual narratives applied in the Northern Wei period Mogao Caves of Dunhuang. During this time at Peking University, she had jointly edited two essay volumes: Approaching the East 《认识“东方学”》 and Exploring the East 《探索“东方学”》. Her current research focus is on the history of the Sino-Swedish Scientific Expedition to the North-Western Provinces of China (1927–1935), working in collaboration with the Sven Hedin Foundation and Northwest Normal University. She also serves as adjunct professor at Chengdu Textile College and research fellow of the Institute for Ancient Civilizations at Peking University.
Nora Van den Bosch studied sinology at KU Leuven in Belgium. After finishing her Master in 2018, she went on to follow the one-year program of Digital Humanities at the same university. During that time, she developed a great interest in applying digital techniques for historical research ends. For her thesis she used data visualization to study the geographical distribution of ‘printing churches’ of Catholic missionaries in the seventeenth- and eighteenth century. At the moment, she works as a data scientist for the ENP project.
Feng YI (馮 藝) is a CNRS (Center National de la Recherche Scientifique) social science engineer who received her education in history at Capital Normal University in Beijing and Lumière-Lyon 2 University (M.A. degree). Feng specialized early in Chinese historical documentation and sources and contributed to several research projects in modern Chinese history, including innovative research and resource platforms (Taiwan bibliography, Common People and Artist, etc.). She is the editor of Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique, the digital library of the Institute of Asian Research (IrAsia) and the curator of the Virtual Beijing digital platform. Feng is also involved in designing web interfaces for research (researchers’ blog) and virtual exhibitions. Her most recent project is Everyday life in China, a trilingual virtual exhibition on a rare collection of historical figurines.
Sheng Kui majored in Journalism and Communication , Master of Mass Communication. She has experiences of working in newspapers and publishing houses, with interest in books publishing, media and new technologies of mass culture
Assistant Professor at Aix-Marseille University and member of Irasia, she is a sociologist and historian by training. Her research focuses on the social process of quantification, particularly the role of numerical evaluation in legitimizing elites. In the past, she has studied the national university entrance examination in China, employing sociology of quantification, education, and economic anthropology. She is currently exploring the FIRE (Financial Independence and Retire Early) movement among Chinese elites. She is also interested in the transmission of memory from the Cultural Revolution, particularly the upheavals in elite status during that period
Hsu Weian (許維安) is a doctoral student in History at National Taiwan University, under the supervision of Prof. Yi Jo-lan. She received her B.A. in History from the National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan) and her M.A. in History from National Taiwan Normal University. She has several years of experience as a part-time research assistant in the fields of modern Chinese history and gender studies. Her current dissertation project provisionally concerns the history of psychology discipline in twentieth-century China, focusing on social networks of psychology and the gender factor in knowledge construction.
Huang Chien-Chieh黃健傑 is a doctoral student at National Chengchi University in Taiwan under the supervision of Prof. Rachel Hui-Chi Hsu許慧琦. He received his B.A. and M.A. in the Department of History, at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He has several years of experience as a part-time research assistant in the field of modern Chinese history. His current dissertation project provisionally concerns the history of food culture, knowledge production, Chinese recipes, cookbooks, technological applications, and gender issues. He would like to use digital humanities tools to analyze and explain the social networks of knowledge producers and disseminators.
Anne Herren is a doctoral candidate at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where she obtained her M. A. degree in East Asian Art History and Chinese studies in 2016. Her doctoral research proposal was successfully granted by the Swiss National Science Foundation in 2017 and she is currently conducting her PhD project at the Institute of Art History, Section for East Asian Art History at the University of Zurich. Her thesis is centered on visual representation in newspaper photography on China from 1925 to 1949. By focusing on newspaper photographs which were created for an international audience, the works of newly emerging and internationally connected Chinese and foreign elites in journalism and photojournalism will be analyzed beyond eurocentrism. Her project draws on multiple primary sources, including English- and Chinese-language periodicals published in Shanghai , as well as records preserved in major archives in the United States, Europe, and China.
Le Tian is currently pursuing her PhD through the China Scholarship Council, under the supervision of Prof. Robert Bickers and Dr. Amy Edwards. She joined the ENP-China team in 2023, combining her research with digital humanities tools. Her research focuses on the Sino-British commercial relationships in the early nineteenth century, especially emphasizing the construction and maintenance of credit and trust in the process of the tea trade. After studying for her BA at Zhejiang University, she was awarded an MA at Sun Yat-sen University where she wrote a thesis on Chinese children’s toys in the 1920s-1930s. She has also worked as a research assistant on public history at Zhejiang University for three years and has a strong interest in oral history and documentary films.
Hu Yi-Fan is a doctoral student in history at Aix-Marseille University under the supervision of Prof. Christian Henriot. She received her B.A. in French Language and Literature and M.A. in Art Studies from National Central University (Taiwan). She has several years of experience as a part-time research assistant in the fields of history, archaeology and film studies. Her Ph.D. is generously supported by the 4-year fully funded Government scholarship from the Ministry of Education (Taiwan), and her current dissertation project provisionally concerns the history of knowledge production of several global learned societies in the nineteenth- and twentieth- century China, focusing on their multiple aspects of knowledge in various disciplines, as well as thenetw
Jeremy Auguste [2021-2022] joined the ENP-China project as a postdoctoral researcher in Natural Language Processing. He completed his PhD in Computer Science at the Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes (LIS) in 2020. Before his PhD, he obtained in 2016 a master’s degree in Fundamental Computer Science at Aix-Marseille Université, with a specialization in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Jeremy has moved to a new career in research in the private sector.
Lu Yi-Jun 陆轶隽 is a doctoral student in Modern Chinese History at Shanghai Normal University under the supervision of Prof. Su Zhiliang 苏智良. He received his B.A. in Department of History, Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan and M.A in Department of History, National Chengchi University in Taiwan. His main scholar interest focuses on daily life of civilians in Modern Shanghai, and local charity organization in Yangtze Delta in modern Chinese history. His current doctoral dissertation provisionally concerns the daily life of labour in Shanghai during the 1920s, mainly utilizing elder workers’ oral record collected in the 1950s by Shanghai Labour Movement Historical Material Committee, which is preserved in History Institute in Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He will use some methods of digital humanities to assist his recent research.
Katrine Wong received her Ph.D. degree in history (November 2019) at
Lumière Lyon 2 University. Her dissertation explored the life of Wang
Xiaolai ( 王曉籟 1887-1967), elite merchant and emblematic figure of
Republican Shanghai. The thesis traced Wang’s personal and public
trajectory from a young first-degree imperial xiucai ( 秀才 )
scholar in his native Shengxian (嵊縣) to a leading Republican Shanghai
elite merchant. The thesis investigated how Wang’s multiple pivotal
roles stood embedded at the very heart of the social, financial,
industrial, merchant and business networks of Shanghai. The dissertation
is the first documented study of this foremost individual of early
twentieth century China, and thereby offers a contribution to the lean
repertoire of Republican Shanghai biographies.
Weiting Guo [2020-2022] joined the ENP-China project as a postdoctoral scholar in history from a previous position as Limited-Term Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University (2015–2019) and Lecturer at the University of British Columbia (2013). He is the recipient of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2008–2011), Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation (2013–2014), and the Center for Chinese Studies in Taiwan (2018–2019). He has published peer-reviewed articles and has co-edited volumes forthcoming: Routledge Companion to Chinese Legal History (Routledge) and Trans-Pacific Fermentations: Taiwan and the Making of America’s Cold War Sinology (Academia Sinica). He is working on his monograph, Justice for the Empire: Summary Execution and Legal Culture in Qing China. He is the Secretary of the International Society for Chinese Law and History (ISCLH).
Tsyr Huei (Julie) CHIANG (蔣慈暉) [2018-2020] served as assistant coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus MULTI program (2010-2015). Coming from a business background, she had experiences in logistics and pricing structures while working in Austin, TX (2000-2006). In her free time, she enjoys playing music, badminton, and being a boardgame geek.
