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The ENP-China project is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of the first book resulting from the ENP-China team’s work and the meetings and discussions that we organized with a group of international “like-minded”...
On 30 April 2022, on the very same date when the Shenbao released its inaugural issue 150 years ago (30 April 1872), two Shanghai institutions (East China Normal University 上海师范大学都市文化研究中心 and Shanghai Academy of...
When it comes to the historiography of Shanghai or China, produced by Chinese or foreign scholars, or the state of translated works in Chinese by foreign scholars or foreign writers in general (mostly for...
My colleague and friend, Prof. Ma Jun (马军), besides being an amazingly productive historian is also one of the most astute compilers and editors of foreign works translated into Chinese (see his 全面抗战时期中国文化界译介日本”中国研究”文献目录简编 [2016]...
My former student Jiang Jie (蒋杰) at Shanghai Normal University just put out another exciting and rich collection of essays in the last issue of 上海法租界史研究, a journal that he created in 2016 and...
New Foundations in Digital Chinese Studies Organizer: Christian Henriot, Aix-Marseille University, IrAsia, ENP-China (ERC) Co-organizers: Hilde De Weerdt (Leiden University) Dagmar Schäfer (Max Planck Institute, Berlin) Call for applicants The European Summer School in Chinese Digital Humanities, “New...
The Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press are about to release the Chinese edition — 镰刀与城市. 以上海为例的死亡社会史研究 — of Scythe and the city (Stanford University Press, 2016). The arduous work of translation was done...
The 二十世纪上海报刊娱乐版广告数据库 (Twentieth Century Shanghai newspapers entertainment advertisements) database (hereafter SHBKYL) has been many years in the making. It all started from an amazing reference book idea by Prof. JIANG Jin at East China...
We are pleased to announce the public release of the Modern China Biographical Database (MCBD) by the ENP-China project (ERC). MCBD is a freely accessible relational database that aims at recording all the historical...
Shanghai city maps, as for many cities, come as folding maps with an illustrated cover. This illustration is a visual representation of the city in a snapshot. It can be a building like the...