

Intellectual Communities and Global Networks in modern China
Established in 1857 to investigate subjects connected with China by offering lectures and seminars, providing facilities for research (Library, 1869-1952/ Shanghai Museum, 1874-1948) and publishing

The Everyday Life of Local Elites in Modern Wenzhou (1830–1949)
This project constitutes a historical research on the everyday life of local elites in modern Wenzhou (1830–1949). Using a newly available collection of local diaries

A century of national vibrancy
The history of modern China has been told from many perspectives. Historiography abounds in trends or notions to define the nature of China’s historical trajectory

Elites, the press and public opinion in modern China
Drawing on sociological studies that include reputation as a criterion in their enriched conceptualization of elites, this project sees the development of the modern press

Group Biographical Analysis of the KMT Military Elite
This project is an experimental research that aims to explore how recently developed concepts, methods, and tools of digital humanities can be applied to the

Experts, power and society: The rise of technocracy in modern China
The second project investigates how far we can revisit the Republican period — especially the Nationalist regime (1927-1949) — as the cradle for a modern

Generating graphs of event chains in historical corpora
The social sciences and humanities are being fundamentally shaken by the massive adoption of digitization, which allows the collection and availability of data in massive

Uncle Sam in China
Following a series of military setbacks since the nineteenth century, Chinese elites turned to the West in hope of finding solutions to catch up with