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Browsing History, Philosophy and Religious Studies by Author "Forêt, Philippe"

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"An Interesting Geographical Change" : Hedin, Stein and Huntington's surveys of climate change

Forêt, Philippe (2012-11-09)

Studying the contribution of the lakes of Central Asia to the discovery of global warming must touch on science policy in the early 20th century, the uneasy relationship that learned Europe used to have with the environmental ...
Au delà de la frontière scientifique, la frontière du réel en Asie centrale chinoise

Forêt, Philippe (2010-02-04)

To comprehend the role of frontier and frontier-making in the scientific controversy on the "geographical pivot history," I will propose a short account of the remarkable topographical expeditions that explored the Gobi, ...
Challenges to fieldwork before 1914 and today: Adaptation, Omission, Rediscovery

Forêt, Philippe (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, 2014)

John Chappell and, before him, Lord Curzon have reminded us that much can be gained from reviewing earlier writings and from listening to interruptions and silence.1 In January 2010, I discovered with amazement a wealth ...
De la vertu au vice: l'espace des loisirs à Macao (1910-1930)

Forêt, Philippe (2003-05-16)

Le nom Macao (Aomen en chinois, Ou-mun en cantonais) proviendrait d’une corruption du nom du temple A-ma (Make miao en chinois, Ma-kok miu en cantonais) qui se situe à l’entrée (men, mun) du Port Intérieur. Le temple est ...
«De la vertu au vice: l’espace des loisirs à Macao (1910–1930)»

Forêt, Philippe (Chronos Verlag, 2005)

Je propose un jeu sur l'espace des loisirs, sur la célébration et le dénigrement d'une baie et d'une rue, sur le mariage et le divorce d'une ville et de son littoral, et sur les pratiques iconographiques de répétition et ...
Globalizing Macau. The Emotional Costs of Modernity (1910-1930)

Forêt, Philippe (Routledge, 2006)

This chapter deals with the ambiguity that political authorities feel toward culture and history when they are pressed to enlarge and modernize urban infrastructures. I will discuss the strategy followed by the Harbour ...
Is China ––––––––––––––– flat? A minor contribution to counterfactual geography

Forêt, Philippe (2008-12-11)

The French philosophers Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) and Félix Guattari (1930-92) gathered two seminal texts in On The Line. In "Rhizome," Deleuze and Guattari introduced a new kind of thinking, which is both nondialectical ...
Kartographie der Kontinuität: Vom vormodernen Ostasien zum postmodernen Hong Kong

Forêt, Philippe (Rombach, 2007)

Mit meinen folgenden Ausführungen möchte ich zu einem neuen Verständnis der Vormoderne beitragen, einer Epoche, die viel offener für die kulturelle Vielfalt und toleranter gegenüber inkohärenten Entwicklungen ist als auf ...
Le paysage de la décolonisation de la métropole Hong Kong-Macao

Forêt, Philippe (L'Harmattan, 1997)

Les facteurs apolitiques qui dirigent la mondialisation de l'économie sont en train de brutalement détruire l'architecture vernaculaire chinoise ainsi que le riche symbolisme lié à l'aménagement traditionnel du paysage. ...
Les blancs du Tibet : histoire des solutions adoptées pour résoudre le plus magnifique problème de la géographie

Forêt, Philippe (Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2004)

Cet article traite d'un demi-échec dans l'histoire des blancs de cartes. Une tentative de revivification lexicale, sans pour autant aboutir, suffit à modifier les mécanismes d'évaluation de la découverte géographique. Un ...
Railroad literature on suitable places : How the Japanese government railways forged an "old China" travel culture

Forêt, Philippe (Chronos Verlag, 2003)

This empirical study on advertising campaigns and the art of running trains in distant places finds its theoretical significance in a view of history where real and imagined geographies interact. The railroad companies of ...
Staking a Claim in Paradise : The Appropriation of Central Asia by the Capitals of China (1625-1945)

Forêt, Philippe (2010-11-01)

Lecture given at the China in Asia colloquia series, 2010-2011 OBJECTIVE Understand the non-Chinese notions at work in landscape-making and in thegarden architecture of the imperial capitals of China. METHODOLOGY Examine ...
Temperature and precipitation effects on agrarian economy in late imperial China

Pei, Qing; Zhang, David D; Li, Guodong; Forêt, Philippe; Lee, Harry F (IOP Publishing Ltd Environmental Research Letters, 2016-06-09)

Climate change has been statistically proven to substantially influence the economy of early modern Europe, particularly in the long term. However, a detailed analysis of climate change and the economy of historical China ...
The Disentangled Pictorial History of Mémoire sur la Chine (1776)

Forêt, Philippe (2013-05-11)

This paper would add a contribution to the "entangled histories" of the circulation of Sino-European representations of landscape during the long 18th century. I will discuss a prime example of interaction, interpretation ...
The intended perception of the Imperial Gardens of Chengde in 1780

Forêt, Philippe (Routledge, 2012-05-31)

The 'Record Written by the Emperor on the Mountain Manor to Escape the Heat' is a preface to an album of poems by the Qian Long Emperor (Qing Gaozong, r. 1735-96) illustrated by a series of engravings of vistas...
The role of Central Asia in the discovery of global warming

Forêt, Philippe (2009-11-11)

The review of precise field maps and photographs should help me reconstruct not only the environmental and cultural history of Central Asia, but also the scholarly debate on climate that occurred during the first three ...
The Swiss contributions to the international development of cartography: The Eduard Imhof Era

Forêt, Philippe (2009-07-12)

My paper is about a project that will examine Switzerland's participation, during five decades, in the institutional and intellectual emancipation of the map-based sciences. I intend to provide a thematic and dispassionate ...