Hansun Hsiung

Hansun Hsiung is a global intellectual historian. His work centers around the following question: what makes knowledge move? His previous scholarship examined the rise of a transnational economy of textbooks, c. 1750–1900. He is simultaneously at work on a project concerning the prehistory of image banks.


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Writing on Public Books

Virtual Roundtable on “Compression”

The mass of objects lead quiet lives awaiting activation. On shelves or in boxes, as papers or digital files, storage furnishes an ever-present …