Qun Che

Biographic Data

ID8675356
NAMEQun Che
GIVEN NAMESQun
FAMILY NAMEChe
SIGNATURECHE Q
AFFILIATIONSShanghai Jiao Tong University
ORCID0000-0002-2929-4044
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Grains of change

    Open AccessQun CheARTICLEInternational Review of…2026

    While the biases inherent in historical disaster records are widely acknowledged, many reconstructions of past climate still rely on them.The nature and extent of these disaster records still remain insufficiently explored.This study addresses this question by examining the middle Yangtze region and reconsidering disaster reporting through the lens of agrarian transformation.From the Ming to the late Qing periods, the transition from early maturi…

  • New water histories of Schistosomiasis in China

    Open AccessPhilip C Brown, Qun Che et al.ARTICLEWater History2026

  • Disease, water and water conservancy construction

    Open AccessQun CheARTICLEWater History2026

  • What is Local Knowledge? Digital Humanities and Yuan Dynasty Disasters in Imperial China's Local Gazetteers

    Open AccessDaniel Schafer, Shih-Pei Chen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Chinese History2020

    This paper focuses on the historical politics of disaster records in Chinese local gazetteers ( difangzhi 地方志). Using records of mulberry crop failures as examples, the authors ask how gazetteer editors collated Yuan disaster records—initially collected to help prevent disasters and authorize the legitimacy of dynastic rule—in gazetteers and, in so doing, made them into ‘local’ knowledge. Digital humanities methods allow for both qualitative and …