ERC Advanced Grant · 2020
Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History
RegInfra analyses how infrastructures such as city walls, roads, and bridges contributed to regional and empire-wide integration, and equally how they contributed to countervailing trends including local tensions, local autonomy, and cross-border regional formations in late imperial Chinese history (ca. 1000-1800). At a time when the People’s Republic of China is heavily investing in domestic and cross-continental infrastructures, we aim to map, compare, and critically analyse the material infrastructures on which Chinese polities of the past have been constructed. Key objectives include: • mapping the appearance and disappearance of large-scale infrastructures on an open access spatial…
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