July 2007
Fa-ti Fan
History Department
State University of New York at Binghamton
P.O. Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902
ffan@binghamton.edu
(607) 777-2494
Associate Professor, Department of History (joint with Asian and Asian American Studies), State University of New York at Binghamton, 2005-
Assistant Professor, Department of History, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2000-2005.
Education:
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
August 1999
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
May 1993
B.Sc. National Chengkung University, Taiwan
May 1987
Publications:
Books:
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
“Redrawing the Map: Science in Twentieth-Century China,” Isis 98 (forthcoming in September 2007).
“Science in Cultural Borderlands: Natural History, European
Imperialism, and Cultural Encounter in Nineteenth-Century China,” East Asian
Science, Technology, and Society: an International Journal (forthcoming).
“National Narrative and the Historiography of Chinese Science,” in 古今論衡 (Disquisitions on the Past and Present), (forthcoming).
“文化遭遇與科學實作：博物研究與英科學帝國主義在清代中國” (“Scientific Practice in Cultural Encounter: Natural History and British Scientific Imperialism in Qing China”), Ping-yi Chu, ed., 中國史新論：科技與中國社會 (Taipei: Academia Sinica, forthcoming).
“How Did the Chinese Become Native?: Science and the Search for National Origins in the May Fourth Era,” ed., Kai-wing Chow, et. al., Nation, Modernity, and the Restructuring of the Field of Cultural Production in China: Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm (Lexington Books, forthcoming).
“Nature and Nation in Chinese Political Thought: the National Essence Circle in Early Twentieth-Century China,” The Moral Authority of Nature, ed. Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 409-37.
“Science in a Chinese Entrepôt: British Naturalists and Their Chinese Associates in Old Canton.” Osiris 18 (2003): 60-78.
“Science and Informal Empire: Victorian Naturalists in China,” British Journal for the History of Science 36 (2003), 1-26.
“Hybrid Discourse and Textual Practice: Sinology and Natural History in the Nineteenth Century,” History of Science, 38 (2000): 25-56.
With Yin, S. J., et al. “Genetics-Polymorphism and Activities of Human Lung Alcohol and Aldehyde Dehychogenases—Implications for Ethanol-Metabolism and Cytotoxicity.” Biochemical Genetics, 30 (1992): 203-15.
Review Essays and Commentaries:
Featured essay review on Benjamin Elman, On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900 (Harvard University Press, 2005), Isis 97 (2006): 535-538.
“Author’s Reply” for a review symposium on my book, British Naturalists in Qing China, in Metascience 14: 2 (August 2005): 165-69.
“Science and Medicine, Asia and Europe.” Review essay in Metascience 11 (2002): 177-84.
“British Naturalists in China, 1790s-1870s.” Newsletter for the History of Chinese Sciecne, 10 (1995): 133-35.
Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries:
Review of Hu Zonggang, Jingsheng Shengwu Diaochasuo shigao (Jinan: Shandong jiaoyu chubanshe, 2005), Isis, forthcoming.
Review of Linda Barnes, Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848 (Harvard University Press, 2005), Journal of Global History, vol. 1, issue 3 (2006): 412-413.
Review of Ruth Rogaski, Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (University of California Press, 2004), Metascience 14: 3 (November 2005), 373-76.
Review of Laurence Schneider, Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). Metascience, vol. 13 (2004): 256-258.
Entries on “Clarke Abel,” “Henry Fletcher Hance,” and “Robert Swinhoe,” in Bernard Lightman, ed., Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2004).
Review of Randall Dodgen, Controlling the Dragon: Confucian Engineers and the Yellow River in Late Imperial China (University of Hawaii Press, 2000). British Journal for the History of Science 35: 2 (June 2002), 231-232.
Entry on “John Reeves,” New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Review of Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet (Yale University Press, 1999), Isis 93 (2002): 119.
Review of Laura Hostetler, Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China (University of Chicago Press, 2001), Metascience 10 (November 2001): 458-61.
Entries on “China: General Works,” “China: Natural History,” and “Orientalism.” Arne Hessenbruch, ed., Reader’s Guide to the History of Science (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000).
Review of Watanabe Masao, Science and Cultural Exchange in Modern History: Japan and the West (Tokyo: Hokusen-sha, 1997), British Journal for the History of Science (June 2000): 233-34.
Review of Yi-Fu Tuan, Who Am I? An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999), Wisconsin Academy Review, 46: 2 (Spring 2000): 43-44.
Review of Mark Elvin and Liu Ts’ui-jung (eds), Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Endeavour: A Quarterly Review of the History and Philosophy of Science, 23: 3 (1999): 138.
Review of Robert Marks, Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 30: 1 (Summer 1999): 166-67.
Review of Christopher Cullen, Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China: The Zhou bi suan jing (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society, 88 (1997): 529-30.
Numerous book notices in Metascience, 2002-2004.
Web/Electronic Publications:
“Nationalisms in East Asia,” co-authored with Laura Neitzel for the Expanding East Asian Studies Program, Columbia University, published October 2004, <http://www.exeas.org/resources/nationalisms.html>.
Lectures and Presentations:
Invited Lectures and Papers:
“Everyday Knowledge and Earthquake Prediction in Communist China,” presented at the Institute of History, Tsing-hua University, Taiwan, June 13, 2007.
“‘The People’s Science’: Everyday Epistemology and Earthquake Prediction in Communist China,” presented at the "Lay Participation in the History of Scientific Observation" workshop, Max Plank Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, May 31-June 3, 2007.
Discussant, Modern China Seminar, Columbia University, April 12, 2007.
“Science, Politics, and Earthquakes in Communist China,” presented at the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, March 20, 2007.
“New Wines in Old Bottles: Nationalism, International Politics, and the Preservation of Antiquities in Republican China,” Department of History, SUNY-Binghamton, November 30, 2006
“Science and Cultural Encounter in Nineteenth-Century China,” presented at the “Science, Technology, and Chinese Society” workshop at the Institute for History and Philology, Academia Sinica, September 7-8, 2006.
“Nationalism and the Historiography of Science in China,” presented at REHSEIS (CNRS and University of Paris VII), June 22, 2006.
Opening commentator, the "Everyday Technology, Materiality and Gender in China, 1890 to 1960” Workshop, Weatherhead Institute of East Asian Institute, Columbia University, May 19-21, 2006.
“Science in Cultural Borderlands: British Naturalists and Chinese Artisans in Maritime China.” Presented at East Asian Studies Program, City College, City University of New York, March 10, 2006.
Participant,
the “Science, Technology, and Society” Workshop (by invitation only), organized
by National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, January 12-14, 2006.
“Art,
Science, and Commerce in Cultural Borderlands.” Presented at the Institute of
History, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, December 28, 2005.
“Science, Antiquities, and the International System of Cultural Heritage Preservation.” Presented at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, December 22, 2005.
“Nationalism, International Politics, and the Preservation of Antiquities.” Presented at Modern China Seminar, Columbia University, December 8, 2005.
Discussant, Modern China Seminar (by invitation only), Columbia University, November 10, 2005.
“Art, Science, and Commerce in Cultural Borderlands.” Presented at the Alexander Koyré Centre for the History of Science, Paris, May 11, 2005.
“Power, Epistemology and Fieldwork.” Presented at REHSEIS, CNRS and University of Paris VII, May 10, 2005.
“Science in a Global Context and the National Question.” Presented to the Department of the Sociology and History of Science, University of Pennsylvania, April 4, 2005.
“Art and Science in Maritime China.” Presented at Division of Humanities, York University, Canada, February 11, 2005.
Discussant, the “Exhibiting East Asia” Conference, King’s College, Cambridge University, UK, June 21-23, 2004.
“British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter.” Presented at the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, UK, May 27, 2004.
“Science, Nation, and Modernity: the Case of Republican China.” Presented at the “A Conversation About the Future History of East Asian Science, Medicine, and Technology” Conference, Department of the History of Science and Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, September 12-13, 2003.
“Ethnicity and Historical Geography in Chinese Nationalism.” Presented at the “Race, Science, and Culture in 20th Century East Asia and America” Workshop, MIT, April 25-26, 2003.
“Science in a Chinese Entrepôt: Natural History in the Early Modern World.” Presented at the Office for the History of Science and Technology, University of California-Berkeley, February 24, 2003.
“The Tradition of Scientific Modernity: Science and the May
Fourth Movement.” Presented at the “In Search of Tradition: Re-Interpreting the
May Fourth Movement” conference, Oregon State University, February 14-15, 2003.
Participant, the “Expanding East Asian Studies” Workshop, East Asian Institute, Columbia University:
Fourth meeting, January 30, 2004.
Third meeting, May 3, 2003.
Second meeting, January 31-February 1, 2003.
First meeting, September 28, 2002.
“Science in Global Context and the National Question: Prehistoric Archaeology in China, 1910s-40s.” Invited presentation at the “The Disunity of Chinese Science” conference, Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, University of Chicago, May 10-12, 2002.
“Nature and National Narratives in Twentieth-Century China.” Invited presentation at the “New Explorations: Histories of Natural History in East Asia” Workshop, Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, March 16, 2002.
“Teaching World Environmental History.” Invited lecture at the World History Summer Institute, American Forum for Global Education, New York City, August 21, 2001.
Commentary, Coloniality Workshop, State University of New
York at Binghamton, May 4, 2001.
“Nature and National Essence: the guocui Circle in Early Twentieth-Century China.” Invited presentation at the Moral Authority of Nature Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, June 16-30, 2000.
“Power, Fieldwork, and Folk knowledge.” Presented at the Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, April 11, 2000.
“Science and Informal Empire: Victorian Naturalists in
China.” Invited lecture, Department of History, State University of New York at
Binghamton, April 1, 2000.
“Translating the Visual: Natural History Illustration and Chinese Export Painting in the Nineteenth Century.” Invited lecture, The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College, London, September 27, 1999.
Paper presenter and commentator at the Moral Authority of Nature Workshop, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, September 13-24, 1999.
“Intersecting Worlds and Exotic Goods: Material Culture and Natural History in the China Trade.” Invited lecture, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 9, 1998.
Conference Papers and Presentations:
“Natural History Illustration as a Site of Cultural Encounter: the Collaboration of British Naturalists and Chinese Artists.” Presented at the 22th International Congress of History of Science, Beijing, China, July 24, 2005.
“Natural History and Sino-Western Scientific Exchange in the 19th Century.” Presented at History of Science Society, Austin, Texas, November 18-21, 2004. I co-organized the session, the formation of scientific knowledge and practice in cultural encounters session.
“How Did Fossils Become National: Science and Nationalism in Republican China.“ Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 4-7, 2004.
“Nature, Migration, and Social Darwinism in Republican China.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington D.C., April 6, 2002.
“Science in a Chinese Entrepôt: British Naturalists and Their Chinese Associates in Old Canton.” Invited presentation at the Science and the City Workshop, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, December 1, 2000. (I was not able to attend the workshop in person, but my paper was pre-circulated and discussed at the workshop.)
“Nation and the Study of bowu in Early Twentieth-Century China.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Vancouver, November 5, 2000. (In a session I organized on “Science in National and Transnational Contexts.”)
“What is a mo?: Sinology and Natural History in the 19th Century.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Kansas City, Missouri, October 24, 1998. (In a session I organized on “Scientific Encounters between East Asia and ‘the West’)
“Every Family Its Own Historian: History, Memory, and Family in Writing the History of Taiwanese.” Presented at the Annual Conference on the History and Culture of Taiwan, Columbia University, August 23, 1998. (I was also a discussant at a roundtable panel on science studies in Taiwan.)
“Maritime China as Cultural Borderlands: a New Look at Old Canton.” Presented at the Center for Chinese Studies Annual Symposium, University of California, Berkeley, March 13, 1998.
“Art, Commerce, and Natural History: the Practice of British Naturalists in the China Trade.” Presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, San Diego, California, November 8, 1997.
“European Naturalists and their Chinese Associates.” Presented at the 10th International Conference of the Society for the History of Natural History, Oxford University, Britain, April 12, 1996.
“‘Botany’ in Imperial China, or Why We Need a Contextual History of Chinese Science.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 28, 1995.
“British Naturalists at Chinese Treaty Ports.” Presented at the 14th Annual Graduate Student Conference in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 2, 1995.
“British Naturalists in South China, 1780s-1880s.” Presented at the Annual Midwest Junto Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 25, 1995.
Grants, Fellowships, and Honors:
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2007.
Visiting Scholar, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and REHSEIS (CNRS and
University of Paris VII), Paris, Summer 2005.
Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship, Spring 2005.
Mellon Fellowship, The Needham Research Institute, Fall 2003.
Dean’s Research Semester Award, SUNY-Binghamton, Spring 2003.
Participant, Asian Studies Initiatives Grant, the Freeman Foundation, 2002-2005.
Individual Development Award, UUP/SUNY, 2001.
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 1999-2000.
Small Grant, The China and Inner Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, 1998.
Dissertation Research Grant, National Science Foundation, 1996-97.
Grant for Research Abroad, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996.
Dissertation Fellowship, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly
Exchange, 1995-1996.
Professional Activities:
Editorial and Referee Work:
Editorial Boards:
Associate Editor, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 2007-
Editorial board, East Asia Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal,
2006-
Editorial board, Review, Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center, 2006-
Editorial board, book series Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century,
Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2005-
Advisory editorial board, Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society, 2004-2006.
Conference Organizing:
Steering Committee, New York Conference on Asian Studies, 2007.
Organizing Committee, “Asian Migrations,” SUNY-Binghamton, March 24-25, 2006.
Abstract Reviewing, Tenth Annual Conference, North American Taiwan Studies
Association, 2004.
Offices and Committees in Professional Societies:
Secretary, International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine, 2005-.
Nominated for the Council of the History of Science Society, 2005.
At Binghamton University:
Executive Board, Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY-Binghamton, 2006-
Steering Committee, Institute for Asian and Asian American Studies, SUNY-Binghamton, 2006-
Teaching Experience:
at State University of New York at Binghamton
Undergraduate Courses:
Lecture Courses:
China in the Twentieth Century
Science and Technology in the Modern World
World Environmental History
History of Imperialism
Seminars:
Landscape and the Historical Imagination
Science, Technology, and the National Imagination
Graduate Seminars:
Nationalisms in East Asia
Environmental History
Culture and Imperialism
Nature and Empire
Historiography
Research Seminar
University and Departmental Service:
Fulbright Evaluation Committee, 2002, 2005.
Participant, Assessment of SUNY General Education Program, 2004.
Harpur College Council, Spring 2003.
Academic Advising, Summer Orientation Program, 2001
Harpur College, Open House Program, 2001, 2002
Junior Personnel/Third Year Review Committee, 2006.
Advisory Committee, 2006.
Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2005.
Freedeman Lecture Committee, 2005.
Graduate Committee, 2005, 2006.
Distinguished Dissertation Nomination Committee, 2004.
Search Committee, 2001, 2003.
Speakers Committee, 2001-2002.
Research and Development Committee, 2001-2002, 2004-2005.
Library Committee, 2000-2001.
Travel Grants Committee, 2001, 2002
Search Committee, 2003.
Curriculum Grants Committee, 2002-2003.
Freeman Visiting Professorship Committee, 2002.
East Asian Library Committee, 2002.