『Ruoran Cheng 2024.2.20』
中华帝国晚期的交通和通讯：路线和成本
Ruoran Cheng将介绍他对明清时期交通路线和成本的研究。他利用地理信息科学技术和历史路线手册中的数据，对运输路线提出了更准确、更全面的描述。根据这些数据和其他数据，他构建了从 1202 年到 1890 年不同运输方式的相对成本。

Transport and Communication in Late Imperial China: Routes and Costs
February 20 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Speaker: Ruoran Cheng, Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Economics.

Ruoran Cheng will introduce his work on transport routes and costs in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Using techniques from geographic information science and data from historical route books, he has proposed a more accurate and comprehensive account of transport routes. Based on this and other data he has constructed the relative costs of different modes of transportation from 1202 to 1890. Currently, he is also working on the connection between trade potential proxied by natural routes and the location of economic activities proxied by archeological sites in China for a period spanning from Neolithic villages (7000 BP) to the unified empire (2000 BP)

Sponsored by the China Biographical Database Project, China Historical GIS, and the Digital China Initiative

Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies（费正清中国研究中心）
https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/