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SUMMARY:Social Engineering in China: Typical Samples and Big Data
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DESCRIPTION:Andrea Bréard\, Université Paris-Sud\nCurrently\, reports i
 n Western media on a Big Data-based social credit system in China abound i
 n drawing a picture of an Orwellian dystopia of total surveillance. This i
 s in stark contrast with official Chinese publications promoting the syste
 m’s positive effect of morality construction in society through a reward
  and punishment system. In this talk\, I will propose a historical approac
 h to the complex state-society relations in the global scientific and tech
 nological context of China’s past century. The “typical citizen” fro
 m Maoist China is just one possible line of critical inquiry related to th
 e historico-political epistemology of quantification in non-democratic reg
 imes. \n  \nAndrea Bréard is professor of the history of science at th
 e Université Paris-Sud (France). Trained as a mathematician\, computer sc
 ientist (TU München) and sinologist (LMU München & Fudan University)\, s
 he obtained PhDs from the TU Berlin and the Université Paris 7. She has t
 aught in mathematics\, history of science\, and sinology at the technical 
 universities of Munich and Lille\, the École Polytechnique in France\, an
 d the universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt. She has also held fellowsh
 ips from the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and 
 the International Research Consortium in the Humanities (Erlangen)\, and i
 s an associated member of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in 
 a Global Context” (University of Heidelberg). Her scientific work ranges
  from historical research on the global circulation of mathematical concep
 ts\, practices\, and institutions to the investigation of numbers as a cul
 tural technology in Chinese intellectual history. Her dissertation Re-cr
 eation of a mathematical concept in Chinese discourse (Steiner Verlag 1999
 ) was rewarded the Prix des Jeunes Historiensof the Académie Internation
 ale d'Histoire des Sciences and the Prix de Thèse of the Fondation Sino-
 Française pour l'Éducation et la Culture. Her monograph Nine Chapters 
 on Mathematical Modernity: Essays on the Global Entanglements of the Scien
 ce of Numbers in Chinais currently in press with the Springer book series 
 Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Glob
 al Context. \n 
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