Christian Henriot
@ankeqiang.bsky.social
Historian of modern China|digital scholar|data hunter|ENP-China Project|Chinese elites|Computational methodologies
Sociology
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Political science
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Christian Henriot
@ankeqiang.bsky.social
· Mar 13
L’entreprise chinoise Huawei soupçonnée d’avoir corrompu une quinzaine d’élus au Parlement européen
La police belge a mené des perquisitions et appréhendé des lobbyistes œuvrant pour le groupe chinois. Ils sont soupçonnés d’avoir corrompu des élus européens, selon le quotidien « Le Soir » et la plat...
www.lemonde.fr
Seriously, what are we waiting for? This war is unsustainable for Russia. If the EU was to spend 4% of its GDP on defense, Russia would have to spend 40% of its GDP on defense simply to match EU spending. Bottom line: Russia must spend ten times more of its GDP to match the EU.(Source: FRED)
Christian Henriot
@ankeqiang.bsky.social
· Feb 21
Modern China in Flux
Modern China in Flux heralds a transformative epoch in historical research, spotlighting the innovative methodology of network analysis. As the digital age unfolds, historians encounter both an unpara...
www.degruyter.com
I am pleased to announce the open-access publication of the collective volume Modern China in Flux: Networks, Mobility, and Transformation (De Gruyter).
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Christian Henriot
@ankeqiang.bsky.social
· Feb 19
www.nytimes.com
Vance’s Munich Disgrace
« For now, the important point is this: Much like a certain British prime minister long ago, an American vice president went to Munich to carry on about his idealism while breaking bread with those who would obliterate democratic ideals. A disgrace »
NYT.
« For now, the important point is this: Much like a certain British prime minister long ago, an American vice president went to Munich to carry on about his idealism while breaking bread with those who would obliterate democratic ideals. A disgrace »
NYT.
Christian Henriot
@ankeqiang.bsky.social
· Feb 19
C’est officiel. Pour l’Europe, les Etats-Unis sous Trump sont désormais une nation hostile.
Christian Henriot
@ankeqiang.bsky.social
· Feb 14
Interdisciplinary workshop at Numata Center: Biographies of Chinese Buddhists in Past and Present.
The conveners’s welcome
The conveners’s welcome
Christian Henriot
@ankeqiang.bsky.social
· Feb 13
Putin’s Call With Trump Delivers a Victory for Russian Leader
Vladimir Putin’s call with President Trump reinforced the Russian leader’s view that Moscow and Washington should decide the fate of Ukraine — and other weighty matters.
www.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...
Trump is selling out Ukraine to Russia, like Winston Churchill with Poland like Halifax and Churchill.
Europe needs to stand up and say no to any concession to the aggressor. And no to the two hegemons.
Trump is selling out Ukraine to Russia, like Winston Churchill with Poland like Halifax and Churchill.
Europe needs to stand up and say no to any concession to the aggressor. And no to the two hegemons.
Christian Henriot
@ankeqiang.bsky.social
· Feb 13
www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de
The Numata Institute for Buddhist Studies (Hamburg University) is organizing a two-day Buddhist biographies workshop [14-15 February 2025].
www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/3-verans...
www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/3-verans...
Shanghai In Images: A Look Back
Twenty-five years ago—almost to the day—Shanghai in Images took off. With seed funding from the France-Berkeley Fund, my comrade-in-idea(l)s, Yeh Wen-hsin, and I launched the first online database of ...
virtualshanghai.hypotheses.org
My "digital journey" started in 1982 at Stanford when I used a large-frame computer for biographical data. Yet, my first serious attempt to move beyond individual computer usage and take on the web started in 2000 with Shanghai in Images. Full story here: virtualshanghai.hypotheses.org/1641