Christian Henriot
ankeqiang.bsky.social
Christian Henriot
@ankeqiang.bsky.social

Historian of modern China|digital scholar|data hunter|ENP-China Project|Chinese elites|Computational methodologies

Sociology 35%
Political science 34%

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)

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...
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

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.
www.nytimes.com

C’est officiel. Pour l’Europe, les Etats-Unis sous Trump sont désormais une nation hostile.

Interdisciplinary workshop at Numata Center: Biographies of Chinese Buddhists in Past and Present.
The conveners’s welcome

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.
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

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

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
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