Approche historique de la publicité en Chine et ailleurs
After three years of pandemic, we were finally able to set foot on Taiwan soil to join the international workshop “Elites and Social Networks in China and Taiwan” 「近代中國城市菁英的形成及其社會網絡」which had been postponed since 2020....
On November 18-19, we joined Prof. Kaske at Leipzig University to mentor a two-day workshop on the R programming language applied to historical research, with a particular emphasis on modern China. We were two...
On 20-25 June 2022, I had the privilege to participate in the European Summer School in Chinese Digital Humanities followed by the international conference “New Foundations in Digital Chinese Studies”. This major event in...
Fruit d’un workshop international organisé en octobre 2019 à Aix-en-Provence par le projet ENP-China, cet ouvrage réunit trois générations d’historiens venus de trois continents : Cécile Armand (Aix-Marseille Université), Peter E. Hamilton (Lingnan University),...
This is the last instalment in our series devoted to Carl Crow’s Newspaper Directory of China. The purpose of this essay is twofold: Substantially, to reveal patterns in the naming of periodicals and to...
Last Friday, January 25, I participated in the IrAsia Seminar with my colleagues of the ERC project “Elites, Network and Power in modern China.” My presentation consisted in a demonstration of the “enp-china” R...
Last Thursday, October 22, I was invited to participate in the ENP China Webinar Series. My presentation titled “A Foreign Club with Chinese Flavor: The Rotary of Shanghai and the Politics of Language” addressed...
This is the first instalment of a new series of blog posts aimed at introducing the Consolidated National Advertising Company (Lianhe guanggao gongsi 聯合廣告公司). Established in 1930 by four leading entrepreneurs in Shanghai, Lianhe...
Last week Tuesday February 11, 2020, I was invited to present my current research on the Rotary Club of China and transnational elite sociability in the workshop “Networks in East Asia: Methods and Case...
This post will close our series of essays devoted to the network analysis of meeting attendance at the Shanghai Rotary Club. This series has explored the value of a multimodal approach to persons in...
This is the last essay in our series devoted to meeting attendance at the Shanghai Rotary Club. In this post, we propose to analyze the combinations of roles that participants performed during meetings. The...
In order to complete our dual projection approach, we now propose to analyze the networks of events-events joined by persons – or networks of multiple attendance at Rotary meetings. In the following networks, nodes...
In the previous post, we started to examine the network of co-attendance during Rotary meetings. Up to this point, our analysis was locally focused on attendees” influence or intermediarity, and the frequency of co-attending...
In order to complement the bimodal approach we conducted in our last post, we now propose a dual-projection analysis. For this purpose, we first projected the initial two-mode networks into two one-mode networks of...
As announced in the introductory post, the first step in our analysis of Rotary networking consists in designing three bimodal networks, one for each term (Petit, Fitch, Harkson). In analyzing two-mode data, we typically...
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