Science and Technology in China
Folks who research and write about issues relating to science and technology in China's past and present. Please let me know if you have suggestions to add to this list or want to be a part of it, too.
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@eastasiascitech.bsky.social
@steveharrell.bsky.social
Retired professor, unretired ethnographer, polyglot, nature lover, part-time climate activist, occasional contrarian. Taiwan, China, and Whatcom County--adoptive 'Hamster. Would like to be wittier than I am.
@profyangzhang.bsky.social
Sociologist studying contentious & elite politics, state & empire, political economy, knowledge, theory, and China. Associate Professor @ausis.bsky.social.
@emilybaum.bsky.social
Professor at UC Irvine (China, medicine, health humanities) Runner/BQer/RRCA run coach Author, Needled: How Acupuncture Became Alternative (forthcoming, Viking)
@yanlong-soc.bsky.social
Sociologists, UC Berkeley, studying authoritarian politics, health, digital technology, civic action, gender, sexuality & global China. Author of Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China (Oxford)
@billcallahan.bsky.social
China curious filmmaker and writer for films and articles see: SensiblePolitics.Net/ Latest film: "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China", see trailer: https://vimeo.com/962136803
@hildedw.bsky.social
Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
@linzhang.bsky.social
Critical Innovation Studies, Pro@UNH; Author of The Labor of Reinvention (Columbia UP, 2023). Working on a book about transnational biotech https://linzhangweb.org/
@mstanleybaker.bsky.social
Asst. Prof Nanyang Technological U #Sinology #ChineseMedicine #ChineseReligion #MedicalHumanities #DigitalHumanities #histsci #histmed https://tinyurl.com/msbatntu http://polyglotasianmedicine.com
@blurberryben.bsky.social
UX Researcher, anthropologist, reader, doodler, and amateur cook 🏳️🌈
@lchen2024.bsky.social
JD/PhD, UToronto historian of post-1500 Chinese law/politics/culture/intl relations; law & empire & postcolonial studies. Author of "Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics”.
@ktai.bsky.social
Probably somewhere in an archive near berlin. phd-ing @ MIT Political Science on Chinese politics, technology policy, bureaucracy & GDR computing. Also at mstdn.social/@ktai
@svshen.bsky.social
political scientist + environmental engineer @ Stanford Doerr | author @ Cambridge UP - Political Regulation Wave, Compliance with Policy | http://svshen.com
@carwynmorris.bsky.social
Geographer of digital and China things Wanghong, digital territory, and contentious politics PI of European Research Council Project CHINA.EU Assistant Prof China Studies, Leiden University Fashion side hustle https://www.instagram.com/seventyfivelondon
@cameronhunter.bsky.social
Researching US-China in outer space and nuclear politics at the University of Copenhagen. https://ritualdeterrence.eu/
@onglynette.bsky.social
http://LynetteOng.com Distinguished Prof of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto. Senior Fellow, Asia Society. Author of “Outsourcing Repression” https://shorturl.at/qtNj8. Autocracies. Repression. Violence. Protests. Development. Also Southeast Asia.
@elizabeth-steyn.bsky.social
Law prof at UCalgary, Canada. Critical minerals expert. Passionate about environmental justice, the protection of biodiversity, and ocean governance. Yogi. Scuba diver.
@jamestwotree.bsky.social
Historian of Taiwan & the World. Assistant Professor, University of Washington Jackson School. Author of In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan (University of California Press, 2025) Website: ocf.io/jameslin he/him
@madeinchinajournal.com
The Made in China Journal is an independent #openaccess publication that seeks to facilitate critical discussion about Chinese politics and society. Visit us at https://madeinchinajournal.com. A Global China Lab initiative (https://globalchinalab.com).
@chenchenzh.bsky.social
migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. she/her. 不必等待炬火. co-host @shichapodcast.bsky.social https://chenchenzhang.net/
@jeremywallace.bsky.social
China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
@cryohistory.bsky.social
PhDing @Harvard History of cold, arid, & high-altitude environments & sciences in the PRC 中國高寒旱環境及科學史 https://sites.harvard.edu/jason-chan
@bspivey.bsky.social
Historian of modern China. Writing a book about environmentalism during the Cultural Revolution. Also do ئۇيغۇر and Xinjiang history. UC Irvine PhD, editor at LAReviewofBooks, soon to be postdoc at ANU.
@flaviafang.bsky.social
Historian of medieval China and the Silk Roads | writing about smells | Past & Present Fellow @ IHR and SOAS University of London
@yanze-yu.bsky.social
PhD student @ColumbiaSoc ; MA @MichiganChina ; BA @FudanUniversity I study medicine, political economy, and science, knowledge & technology. Profile: https://sociology.columbia.edu/content/yanze-yu
@tonglam.bsky.social
History prof, visual artist, book author w/ projects on infrastructure, colonialism, Cold War mobilization, and (mis)information. <http://tonglam.com>
@annegerritsen.bsky.social
historian at the University of Warwick and Chair of Asian Art at the University of Leiden
@jongsikyi.bsky.social
historian, teacher, writer assistant professor of the history of science at pohang university of science and technology (postech), south korea 🪴 History of science, medicine, and animals in modern China, Vietnam, and Korea 🌝 jongsikchristianyi.com
@cerencevik.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher @MPIfG_cologne & @unidue focusing on #environmentalactivism and #transnational NGOs in China & Turkey, environmental governance, just transition. prev @METU_ODTU IR
@jaredrhall.bsky.social
Educator based in Changshu, China. Doctoral candidate at @PennGSE. Interests: meaningful learning, history, philosophy, technology, and the future of our 🌏. He/him/他.
@zuoya.bsky.social
Historian, middle and late imperial China, cultural history, history of emotions, Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara
@brazelton.bsky.social
Historian of sci/tech/med in modern China, Cambridge HPS. All views my own.
@waynesoon.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine, China, Taiwan, and Diaspora at the University of Minnesota. Associate Professor. Currently researching on global health insurance histories in East Asia. https://a.co/d/4tahHXR
@liuqiongyi.bsky.social
C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow, @BakerInstitute.blsky.social and Prof. in the Practice, Department of Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University; Sinologist studying China center-local political communication, propaganda, energy. My own views.🏳️🌈
@gaodawei.bsky.social
Retired US State Dept guy, worked 10 yrs in PRC (Beijing and Chengdu), good at reading 'communist Chinese' Qiushi etc., now studying ancient Chinese and literature. Enjoy studying languages. Ham call WA1LBP. Translation blog: gaodawei.wordpress.com
@mmuscolino.bsky.social
Professor and Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History, UC San Diego Author of _Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People_ forthcoming 2025. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753980/remaking-the-earth-exhausting-the-people/ #EnvHist #SocHist #AgHist
@mariarepnikova.bsky.social
Academician, word technician, Atlantan, Russian-American-Latvian-Jew. Associate Prof @Georgia State in Global Comm; China expert. Author of Media Politics in China and Chinese Soft Power. Currently writing China's image-making in Africa.
@plantmaize.bsky.social
ABD historian of diet & medicine in China (#FirstGen), creative non-fiction editor @tendonmag.bsky.social, companion to a really good dog named Barktholomew (號小聃) Taipei / Baltimore / Los Angeles they/them 🏳️🌈 all views my own (君子不器)
@lenakaufmann.bsky.social
China Anthropologist | @snsf-ch.bsky.social Ambizione Fellow @unifr.bsky.social | PhD Zurich University | Book OA https://bit.ly/3Bktstt | Chinese society, farming, migration, tech, digital https://www.unifr.ch/anthropos/fr/unite/equipe/people/405151/69d92
@fairbankcenter.bsky.social
A world-leading center on Greater China at Harvard University. Dedicated to advancing scholarship and research for over 65 years.
@tristangbrown.bsky.social
Historian of China @MIT focusing on law, environment, economy, science, and religion Author, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton, 2023) China Book Editor, Journal of Asian Studies
@dechunzhang.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen. Managing Editor @jceajournal.bsky.social, Editor of Asia Pacific Viewpoint & Social Media Editor @jvpcjournal.bsky.social. Website: http://dechunzhang.com
@arunabhghosh.bsky.social
Historian, Modern China, Political Economy, Environment, Science and Tech, Energy, Dams, Statistics, etc. scholar.harvard.edu/arunabh.ghosh
@larryau.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at City College, CUNY Politics of expertise in science and medicine globally Are you a medical professional caring for patients with #LongCovid? Take our survey: http://LongCovidStudy.com Learn more: http://larryau.com
@guobin-yang.bsky.social
Sociology & communication prof at Penn researching: Internet, activism, digital culture, narratives, emotions, performance theories, communication=translation, sinology. All views my own. Website: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/guobin-yang-phd
@yangyangcheng.bsky.social
Research Scholar at Yale Law School studying the history of science in China and US-China relations. Particle physicist by training. Writer at various places. Editor at Made in China Journal. Co-host of Dissident at the Doorstep.
@gwbstr.com
Chinese tech policy and US-China relations at Stanford Newsletter: herecomes.transpacifica.net Basics: gwbstr.com Also: #filmphotography
@eastasiascitech.bsky.social
Historian of technology, science, and industry @ Harvard. Author of CARBON TECHNOCRACY. Currently writing a history of industrial psychology in China. More about my work here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow