Victor Seow
@EastAsiaSciTech
Historian of technology, science, and industry @HarvardHistSci | China and Japan, energy and work | 📗 CARBON TECHNOCRACY
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So excited for this new volume of essays on the mutual constitution of modern science, race, and the globe that my brilliant Harvard, Department of the History of Science colleague Eram Alam coedited with Dorothy Roberts and Natalie Shibley
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'With its carefully researched details, elegant style of writing, and thought-provoking arguments, this book will no doubt become a new classic in multiple fields of research.'
Many thanks again to Koji Hirata for this exceedingly generous review 🙏
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My review of Victor Seow's amazing 'Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia' (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022), with a response by the author.
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Just a reminder that I am presenting some material *tomorrow* for Victor Seow on #chinesesf from the Republican Era (1911-1949). It's online via Harvard's STS series if you register on Zoom, 10:30am EST. #sciencefiction #中国科幻 #科学小说 #科幻 #中国SF #民国科幻 #未來記
Energy people & Latinoamericanistas, check out this hot off the press article on energy sovereignty storytelling!
Isra Solorio Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega francisco tijerina American Society for Environmental History Sociedad Latin. y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) EnergyInSociety Energy History Online Nelson Arellano-Escudero Jose Ragas liz chatterjee Victor Seow Trish Kahle
For those interested in lithium, batteries, and #chinapowers , Pablo Ampuero-Ruiz 🌳 巴梓諾 and I are organizing this webinar series starting in May. In collaboration with ICLAC Núcleo Milenio More details and registrations to be followed
How did science fiction feature in the making of a 'China dream?'
Come join the #STinAsia online seminar series @ Harvard next Tue, Apr 9, 10:30 ET for this talk on 'Dreams of China's Past' by Aaron William Moore.
Registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
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So grateful to discuss Dissident at the Doorstep, a narrative podcast hosted by Alison Klayman, Colin Jones, & me, with Ivan Franceschini Made in China Journal: on the power & limitations of legal activism, meanings of Chinese-ness in exile, who needs heroes, & why I'm hopeful.
madeinchinajournal.com/2024/04/04/dis…
How did science fiction feature in the making of a 'China dream?'
Come join the #STinAsia online seminar series @ Harvard next Tue, Apr 9, 10:30 ET for this talk on 'Dreams of China's Past' by Aaron William Moore.
Registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #scifi
CHINESE WORKERS OF THE WORLD
Explores Chinese labor under colonial regimes by examining the Yunnan-Indochina Railway, a project that claimed the lives of thousands of Chinese workers during its construction.
June 2024
Selda Altan
Stanford Press
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My book, Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland, is available to download for free from this link! You can also buy a paper copy.
Coal Country is the first book length account of the end of coal mining in Scotland. uolpress.co.uk/book/coal-coun…
New in the HYI Monograph Series: 'The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850–1880,' by Huan Jin, published by Harvard University Press this month. Learn more about the series: ow.ly/O9bO50R299C
