Chair of Chinese Intellectual History

An Intellectual History of National Accounting

The world never sleeps and economies do not stand still. As the scope, sophistication and complexity of economic transactions increase, new products appear and the institutions engaged in these exchanges themselves change. The nature of economic relationships is continually being transformed, as activities appear more ambiguous and the interpretation of economic statistics grows ever more diffi...

Is There an Indian Intellectual History? Introduction to ‘‘Theory and Method in Indian Intellectual History’’

playful and profound in a way unique to him, entitled ‘‘Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?’’ According to the possible emphases, this sentence could express at least four different questions (‘‘Is,’’ present/past; ‘‘an,’’ singular/plural; ‘‘Indian,’’ local/general; ‘‘thinking,’’ familiar/alien), to which Ramanujan supplies at least eight equally reasonable answers. In the end, he seems to have...

Introduction : The intellectual history of election studies

Jan - Werner Müller European Intellectual History as Contemporary History

The first part of this essay examines the peculiar role European intellectual history played in coming to terms with the twentieth century as an ‘Age of Extremes’ and the different weight it was given for that task at different times and in different national contexts up to the 1970s. The second part looks at the contemporary history of politically focused intellectual history – and the possibl...

History and Provenance of the “Chinese” Calendar in the Z?j-i ?lkh?n?

This article sheds light upon a “Chinese” calendar described in the Z?j-i ?lkh?n?. In previous studies, some characteristics of the calendar were ascribed to the “Uighurs” However, I will show that it was not originally associated with the Uighur. This “Chinese” calendar was brought to Iran by the Chinese Taoist Fu Mengchi who accompanied his ruler Hülegü. Fu Mengchi informed Nas?r al-D?n T?s? ...