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Masato Hasegawa

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (2020–2021)

Masato Hasegawa is Assistant Professor of History at National Taiwan University and concurrently serves as a fellow at Einstein Center Chronoi in Berlin. He holds a PhD in History from Yale University and previously taught at the University of Oregon, New York University, and Columbia University. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MPIWG. He specializes in the history of technology and the environment in early modern East Asia. His current research focuses on the intersections of bureaucratic knowledge, war mobilization, and the temporality of planning in the Sino-Korean borderland of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Projects

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Nature, Technology, and Daily Life in a Wartime Borderland

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Rhythms of War and Farming in Early Modern China and Korea

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Selected Publications

Lycas, Alexis, Masato Hasegawa, and Shih-Pei Chen (2022). “The Production of Geographical Knowledge in Medieval China.” East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 54 (2): 161–165. https://doi.org/10.1163/26669323-20220016.

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Lycas, Alexis, Masato Hasegawa, and Shih-Pei Chen, eds. (2022). The Production of Geographical Knowledge in Medieval China. Special issue, East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 54 (2). Leiden: Brill. https://brill.com/view/journals/east/54/2…

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Lycas, Alexis, Masato Hasegawa, and Shih-Pei Chen, eds. (2021). Local Uses of Geographical Knowledge in Imperial China. Special issue, Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies 69 (2). Abingdon: Routledge. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymon20…

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Lycas, Alexis, Masato Hasegawa, and Shih-Pei Chen (2021). “Local Uses of Geographical Knowledge in Imperial China: Introduction to Contributions to the International Workshop held by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG),…

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Past Events

Workshop

Locality and Geographical Knowledge in Imperial China II

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Workshop

Locality and Geographical Knowledge in Imperial China I

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Reading Group

Newspaper Article about Entomologist Nawa Yasushi 名和靖

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Reading Group

Newspaper Article about Entomologist Nawa Yasushi 名和靖

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Colloquium

Measuring Reliability in the Wartime Transport of Provisions: The Case of Mao Yuanyi (1594-1641)

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