On October 28, Professor Hilde De Weerdt will present The Longue-Durée Social and Regional History of Chinese Urban Infrastructural Repair and Disrepair at the Connecting Urbanism Across Time & Space conference, organized by the Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanisation at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena.
This presentation draws on the collective multidisciplinary research project Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History and The Lives and Afterlives of Material infrastructures and discusses the project’s key theoretical, methodological, and historiographical findings.