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Conclusion

  • Introduction
  • Data and Preprocessing
  • Network Construction
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Interactive Maps
  • Findings and Implications
  • Conclusion

    • Conclusion

    This project demonstrates how archival materials, bibliographic databases, and geographic visualisation can be combined to reconstruct a layered intellectual history. By moving from correspondence to coauthorship and then beyond both into photo co-mention and spatial storytelling, the project recovers a richer account of C. N. Yang’s transpacific academic world. Its main contribution is not only the reconstruction of one scholar’s network, but also a methodology for studying how scientific, institutional, and personal ties intersect across long historical time.

    [Photograph of the King Faisal International Prize Medal]. (2000). C.N. Yang Archive (Hanger 10, Folder 50). The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library, Hong Kong.