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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"2021_Yuan_Yi\"<\/a><\/td>\nYuan Yi<\/strong> will receive a D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for the academic year of 2021-2022. Her book project, \u201cIndustrial Craft: The Global Making of Chinese Cotton Mills, 1877- 1937,\u201d investigates the mechanization of Chinese cotton spinning with emphasis on the Sino-American exchange of spinning technologies, cotton varieties, and technical experts. By examining the drawings of spinning machines, manuals, engineering journals, agricultural reports, and contracts between American machine firms and Chinese cotton mills, this study will show how the Chinese strove to solve technological problems specific to their factories through continued modification and repair of foreign machines. She argues that what enabled the mechanization was the multiple layers of knowledge obtained from hands-on experience and formal engineering education, and that Chinese workers had been active participants in this global technology transfer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"2021_Seung-Hee_Cho2\"<\/a><\/td>\nSeung Hee Cho <\/strong>will receive a D. Kim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for the academic year of 2021-2022. The title of her dissertation is, \u201cTesting Futures: Jeju Island as Experimental Subject of Energy Policy.\u201d It will examine the political, environmental, and technological histories of making Jeju Island an experimental subject of green energy futures. In 2012, Jeju Island was declared to become a \u201cCarbon-Free Island\u201d by 2030 with wind turbines, electrical vehicles, and smart grids. She argues that the whole process of building this renewable energy policy \u201ctest bed,\u201d from selection to implementation, has been closely entangled with Jeju\u2019s political situations with the South Korean government, its ecological traits of an aged volcanic island, and the technological history of electrifying Jeju.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"2021_Sauyi_Fong\"<\/a><\/td>\nSau-yi Fong<\/strong> will receive a D. Kim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for the academic year of 2021-2022. The title of her dissertation is, \u201cGuns, Boats, and Diplomacy: Late Qing Dynasty and the World\u2019s Naval Technology, 1861-1911.\u201d It will investigate Qing China\u2019s engagement with an emerging global regime of arms production and arms trading by examining its naval building project in the late nineteenth century. Based on Chinese, Japanese, British and German sources, this study will analyze how Qing diplomats and naval students cultivated close-knit networks with European diplomats, merchants, shipbuilders and naval officers both at home and overseas. She intends to shed new light on the global history of arms trading and military industrialization, the politics of transnational technological transfer, and nineteenth-century conceptions of military secrecy and strategic security in the age of empires.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0John H. Hayashi<\/strong> will receive a D. Kim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for the academic year of 2021-2022. The title of his dissertation is, \u201cHydraulic Taiwan: Water and Colonial Conservation under Japanese and Chinese Nationalist Rule, 1895-1964.\u201d It will examine water conservation as a powerful historical force in Taiwan under Japanese colonial and early Republican Chinese rule. By using various sources in Taiwan, Japan and the US to get a handle on interlinked histories of the region, this study will show tensions between holding water back (as in the case of floods) and directing it towards productive uses (as in the case of irrigation). He argues that Chinese Nationalist administration adopted and adapted blueprints for technocratic rule over Taiwan\u2019s waters from its Japanese predecessor, which illustrates the transwar nature of colonial conservation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\"2021_Jia_Yu\"<\/a><\/td>\nJia Yu<\/strong> will receive a D. Kim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for the academic year of 2021-2022. The tile of her dissertation is, \u201cBowu<\/em> [broad learning] and the Natural World in the Formation of Modern China.\u201d The thesis focuses on the transitional period starting from the 1850s onwards, during which bowu <\/em>saw profound and rapid transformation in meaning. The history of bowu <\/em>and the process of its association with natural philosophy and natural history took place before the wider adoption of the term kexue<\/em> for scientific inquiry in Republican China during the early twentieth century. She suggests that this study helps us better understand the historiography of the introduction, identification, and communication of modern science in China.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

RESEARCH AND TRAVEL GRANTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"2021_Jeannie_ShinozukaJeannie\"<\/a><\/td>\nJeannie N. Shinozuka<\/strong> will receive a D. Kim Foundation Traveling\/Research grant for the academic year of 2021-2022. Her book project is, \u201cAmerican Biotic Borders: Yellow Peril of Japanese Plants and Insects Along the Migration Frontier, 1890-1959.\u201d She argues that American responses to Japanese plant, insect, and human bodies beginning in the late nineteenth century constitute a powerful historical instance of the centrality of biology and biota (i.e., all biological forms) to race making and racial meanings. She also argues that the exclusionary and highly regulatory policies during the period supported the ideology of American economic, racial, and cultural superiority. She will travel to Japan in the summer of 2021 to visit various archives there and to establish scholarly networks with Japanese research community.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"2021_Jinghong_Zhang2\"<\/a><\/td>\nJinghong Zhang<\/strong> will receive a D. Kim Foundation Traveling\/Research grant for the academic year of 2021-2022. Her research topic is, \u201cDown to the Roots: Teeth, Dentistry, and Dental Hygiene in Modern China, 1908-1985.\u201d It will examine the historical development of dentistry in twentieth-century China from four dimensions \u2013 the institutionalization of Western dental science and dental education, state promotion of dental hygiene under both the Nationalist and Communist governments, the cultural perceptions of teeth in relation to the body, and the commercialization of everyday dental supplies. This study is the first historical study of dentistry and dental hygiene in modern China, a topic that is crucial to understanding the intersection of science, state-building, and society in China\u2019s modernization. She will travel to Chengdu, China for archival research in the summer of 2021.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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