Public Lectures

Friday, September 22, 2006
8:30am

About the presenter

Peter Bol is Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and Chair of the department. He has led the China Historical GIS project in the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a co-editor of Ways with Words: Writing about Reading Texts from Early China (2000) and author of Their Culture of Ours: Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China (1994). Bol's work on cadastral mapping of Chinese provinces and leadership in the Sung period promises to provide a critically important research tool for scholarship on the period.

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Video segment 1
What is GIS?

Video segment 2
Databases, maps, and the advantages of GIS

Video segment 3
The greatest map ever

Video segment 4
The digital gazeteer and public access to knowledge

Video segment 5
The most important moment in Chinese history as seen through GIS

Video segment 6
The China biographical database

Video segment 7
Maps and lying

Video segment 8
GIS and intellectual history

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China Historical GIS

Essay

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Interview

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