Nikki - Department of History



C u r r i c u l u m V i t a e

Qiong Zhang

Department of History, P.O. Box 7806

Wake Forest University

Winston Salem, NC 27109-7806

Email: zhangq@wfu.edu

Tel: (336) 758-2538 (O)

Education

Ph.D November 1996, History of Science, Harvard University

M.A. June 1986, Philosophy (three-year program), Wuhan University, China

B.A. June 1983, philosophy, Wuhan University, China

Research and Teaching Interests

Major Areas of Current Research Interests:

The history of Chinese science broadly speaking, especially pre- and early modern cosmology, cartography, world geography, natural history, meteorology, medicine, and ethnography; Late imperial Chinese intellectual and cultural history; the history of Chinese religion and popular culture; Silk Road studies, especially early modern intra-East Asian and global interactions and exchange

Major Areas of Current Teaching Interests:

World civilization to 1500; the Silk Road; global encounters in the Age of Discovery; surveys of pre-modern and modern Chinese history; the history of Chinese science, technology, and medicine; the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1966-76; People’s history of the People’s Republic; and social media and public discourses in post-Mao China

Professional Experiences

Associate Professor of Chinese History, Department of History, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, July 2015 –

Assistant Professor of Chinese History (Tenure-track), Department of History, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina (July 2008 to June 2015)

Visiting Assistant Professor and “Templeton Fellow,” Science Culture Research Center, Seoul National University, May – December, 2013

Assistant Professor of East Asian History (tenure-track), Department of History, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, August 2005 – June 2008 (left the position for family reasons)

Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of History and Non-Western Cultures, Western Connecticut State University, August 1999–May 2002 (left the position for family reasons)

Visiting Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, UCLA, 1998–1999.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley, 1997–1998.

Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 1996–1997.

Teaching Fellow, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, 1993–1997.

Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Wuhan University, China, 1986–1989.

Selected Publications

A. Books

1. Making the New World Their Own: Chinese Encounters with Jesuit Science in the Age of Discovery. Volume 15 in the book series “Scientific and Learned Cultures and their Institutions” edited by Mordechai Feingold. ISBN: 13-9789004284371, E-ISBN: 9789004284388. Leiden: Brill, June 2015.

2. Kexue lilun moxing de jiangou (The Construction of a Scientific Theoretical Model). Zhejiang, China: Zhejiang Science and Technology Press, 1990. Co-authored with Liu Wenjun and Yu Qiming (I was the first and major author, initiating the project and completing eighty-five percent of the entire manuscript). (In Chinese)

B. Journal Articles and Book Chapters

1. “Parallels, Engagement, and Integration: The Ricci Maps and Their Afterlives in Ming-Qing China as a Case Study of an Intertwined Global Early Modernity” (38pgs), invited contribution in a conference volume, Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: From the World Maps of Ricci and Verbiest to Google Earth, edited by Laura Hostetler and M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J. (forthcoming with Brill)

2. "The Jesuit Heresiological Discourse as Enlightenment Project in Early Modern China," Journal of World History, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2017): 31-60.

3. “Matteo Ricci’s World Maps in Late Ming Discourse of Exotica.” Horizons: Seoul Journal of Humanities Vol. 1, No. 2 (December 2010): 215-250.

4. "From ‘Dragonology’ to Meteorology: Aristotelian Natural Philosophy and the Beginning of the Decline of the Dragon in China." Early Science and Medicine 14.1-3 (2009), 340-368.

5. “Hybridizing Scholastic Psychology with Chinese Medicine: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Catholic’s Conceptions of Xin (Mind and Heart).” Early Science and Medicine 13.4 (August 2008): 313-360.

6. "About God, Demons, and Miracles: The Jesuit Discourse on the Supernatural in Late Ming China." Early Science and Medicine 4.1 (February 1999): 1-36.

7. "Demystifying Qi: The Politics of Cultural Translation and Interpretation in the Early Jesuit Mission to China." In Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulation, edited by Lydia Liu. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999, 74-106. Second edition available in e-book.

8. "Translation as Cultural Reform: Jesuit Scholastic Psychology in the Transformation of the Confucian Discourse on Human Nature." In The Jesuits: Culture, Learning and the Arts, 1540-1773, edited by G. A. Bailey, S. Harris, T.F. Kennedy, S.J., and J.W. O'Malley, S.J. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, 364-79.

An updated version of this article was reprinted in Revista Portuguesa de História Do Livro (Lisbon) Vol. 26 (2010): 365-393. This is a special issue in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Matteo Ricci’s death.

(Journal articles and chapters published in the fields of the philosophy and methodology of science, all in Chinese, are omitted)

C. Encyclopedia Entries

“Bian Que” (a legendary early physician) and “Huangdi nejing” (Inner Canon of the Yellow Lord, an ancient Chinese medical classic), in Linsun Cheng et al. eds., Berkshire Encyclopedia of China (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2009), 1094-1095 and 172-173.

D. Book Reviews

I have reviewed many scholarly books for the Journal of Early Modern History, Journal of Jesuit Studies, Chinese Historical Review, Ancient West and East, and Journal of World History (book titles omitted here)

Papers and Presentations

1. “Changing Skyscapes and Meteorological Discourses in the Late Ming and Early Qing Contact Zone”, paper presented at the international conference co-hosted by CHUS and the University of Macau, “Imagined Communities: Links between China’s Past, Present, and Future” (May 30-31, 2018).

2. “A Triangular Cartographic Encounter: The Strange Journeys of the Yakṣas in Ming-Qing China and Tokugawa Japan, via the Ricci Maps,” a paper presented at the international workshop, “Cartographic Operations: Art, Science and Politics in South East Asia,” co-organized by Christine Anne Habbard of SUTD, and Jean-Marc Besse, CNRS, Paris, and held on 17 May 2018 at the National Library in Singapore.

3. “Dragons without their King: The Changing Dynamic of Science and Popular Religion in Late Ming and Early Qing China,” paper presented at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 23-29, 2017.

4. “From Weather-Based Divination Traditions to Meteorological Discourses in Early Modern China: A Case Study of the Fang School,” paper presented at an international workshop in the history of science convened at Kyoto University on June 25, 2017.

5. “Mapping the New World in Late Ming and Early Qing China: A Case Study of an Intertwined Global Early Modernity,” an invited talk at the international workshop, “Cartographer and Asia,” organized by Christine Anne Habbard and hosted by Singapore University of Technology and Design, on April 21, 2017.

6. "The Jesuit Heresiological Discourse as Enlightenment Project in Early Modern China, an invited talk at the workshop, “Translating Religion and Theology in Europe and Asia: East to West,” hosted by Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, at UC Berkeley, March 22-24, 2017 ().

7. “Twice Made in China: Renaissance Meteorology in the Late Ming and Early Qing,” paper presented to the AAS-in-Asia annual conference, held on June 24-27, 2016, in Kyoto, Japan.

8. “A Scholar among the People?: Xie Zhaozhe, a Late Ming Ethnographer and Curator of Bowu Knowledge,” paper presented at the History of Science Society Annual Conference, held in Nov. 3-6, 2016, in Atlanta, Georgia.

9. Served as a discussant at the international symposium “Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: From the World Maps of Ricci and Verbiest to Google Earth,” hosted by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco on April 22 – 24, 2016.

10. “Catching the Phantoms in the Sky: New Discourses on Qi and Wangqi in the Fang School,” presented at the International Conference on Ming Qing Studies, hosted by the Academia Sinica, Taipei, on December 10-11, 2015.

11. “Xie Zhaozhe and his Many Wonderful Worlds: Three Dimensions in the Knowledge Infrastructure of a Bowu Scholar,” an invited presentation at the Institute for the History of the Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science, on July 17, 2015, sponsored by the Chinese Society for the History of Science and Technology.

12. “Xie Zhaozhe and his Many Wonderful Worlds: A Case Study of Late Ming Discourse of Exotica,” paper presented at the 14th International Conference for the History of Science in East Asia (14th ICHSEA), held in Paris, France, on July 6-10, 2015, as part of a panel I co-organized with Martina Siebert, entitled “Strange Nature, Strange Technologies: Exploring the Inexplicable in Early Modern East Asia.”

13. “Towards a ‘Science’ for Reading the Sky: Uses of Aristotelian Meteorology in 17th-Century China,” an invited talk delivered at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin on March 31, 2015.

14. “Alfonso Vagnoni and the Circulation of Aristotelian Meteorology in Seventeenth-Century China,” paper presented to Renaissance Society of America annual conference held in Berlin, Germany, on March 26-28, 2015.

15. “New Discourses on Qi as a Material Medium in Seventeenth Century China: the Case of the Fang School,” presented at the History of Science Society annual conference in Chicago, November 6-9, 2014, as part of a panel I organized, entitled “The Greater and Lesser Circulation of Scientific Concepts in Early Modern East Asia: Aristotle, Newton, and the New Lives of the Notion of Qi (Ch’i).”

16. “The Belligerent Jesuit: Catholic Campaigns against Heterodoxy in Early Modern China,” a paper presented at the Renaissance Society of America annual conference in New York, March 26-29, 2014.

17. “Translating the Four Seas across Space and Time: the Web of Words and Social Relations Linking the Jesuits and Evidential Scholars in Seventeenth-Century China,” a paper presented at the Templeton Conference, “Science and Religion in East Asia,” held in Seoul National University on December 12-14, 2013.

18. I served as chair and co-discussant for a conference panel entitled “Circuits of Exchange: Global Commerce, Cultural Transformation, and Chinese Literature in the 16th and 17th Centuries,” held at the 8th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 8) in Macao on June 24-27, 2013.

19. “Charting the Four Seas: The Mental and Linguistic Gymnastics in the Seventeenth-Century Chinese Encounters with the New World,” paper presented at the Bi-Weekly Templeton International Seminar on Science and Religion in East Asia on May 30, 2013.

20. “The Jesuits and the Christian Anti-Superstition Drives in Late Ming and Early Qing China,” paper presented at the AHA annual meetings, co-sponsored by the affiliated society Chinese Historians of United States (CHUS), Boston, January 6-9, 2011.

21. “Master Narratives and Counter-Narratives on the Chinese Cultural Revolution,” presented at the roundtable that I organized for the annual meeting of the American Association for Chinese Studies, entitled “Ten Years of Madness? Frontiers of Research and Teaching on the Chinese Cultural Revolution,” held at Wake Forest University, October 15-17, 2010.

22. “Matteo Ricci’s World Maps in Late Ming Discourse of Exotica” (invited contribution), presented at the international workshop, “Travel and Translation: Writing China after Matteo Ricci, 1600-1800,” June 3-4, 2010, held in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Matteo Ricci’s death, sponsored by the Institute of Humanities and Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies of Seoul National University, South Korea.

23. “Science and the Devil in the Early Jesuit and Chinese Christian Crusade against Heterodoxy,” paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies annual meetings, March 25-28, Philadelphia, 2010, as part of a panel I co-organized, entitled “From Old Mission to New Enterprise: Cultural and Religious Positioning of Christian Missionaries in China”

24. “Reinventing the Ideal of ‘Scholar-Physician’: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Doctor’s Engagement with Western Learning,” paper presented at the AHA annual meetings, co-sponsored by the affiliated society Chinese Historians of United States (CHUS), San Diego, January 7-10, 2010. The paper is a revised version of the paper I presented at the New England AAS annual meetings in October 2007 (see entry below).

25. “Reinventing the Ideal of ‘Scholar-Physician’ (Ruyi): A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Catholic Doctor’s Engagement with Western Learning,” paper presented as part of a panel that I organized, entitled “Western Science in the Popular Imaginations and Elite Discourse of Modern East Asia,” for the Association for Asian Studies New England Conference, October 6, 2007.

26. “About Thunder Gods, Dragons, and Earthquakes: Mapping Nature and the Supernatural in the early Modern Jesuit Mission to China,” paper presented at the Seventh Medieval Science Colloquium, held in Boston College, May 25-26, 2007.

27. “Hybridity and Fluidity: The Conception of Xin (Heart/Mind) in Wang Honghan’s Yixue yuanshi (医学原始 Origins of Medicine, 1692),” paper presented at the symposium, “Medicine and Culture in China: Chinese-Western Medical Exchange (1644-ca. 1950),” held on March 8-9, 2007 at the Ricci Institute, University of San Francisco.

28. “Whatever Happened at the Contact Zone?: Matteo Ricci’s World Maps and their Chinese Reception.” Invited paper delivered at the “Klopsteg seminar series in science in human culture,” Northwestern University, October 27, 2006.

29. “From Seduction to Conversion: Jesuit Discourse of Exotica in Late Ming and Early Qing China,” paper presented as part of the panel that I organized, “Between God and Nature: Jesuit Science in the Global Theatre,” for the annual conference of the History of Science Society held in Minneapolis, November 3-6, 2005.

30. “Framing Natural Studies in Late Imperial China,” invited speech delivered on December 1, 2004, at the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.

31. "Similarities and Parallels in Early Modern Chinese and European Natural History." Paper read at the conference that I co-organized, entitled "Similarities and Parallels in World Science, Technology, and Medicine," held at University of California, Los Angeles, June 29, 1999.

32. "Nature, the Supernatural, and Natural Studies in Late Ming China." Paper read at the Seminar in the Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, November 16, 1998.

33. "The State of Religion and Science in China." Comments on "Religion and Science in a Non-Western Cultural Setting: the Chinese Experience," a paper by Frank Budenholzer, SVD, presented at the Public Forum, The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, California, March 31, 1998.

34. "Writing the Exotic: the Jesuits and the Late Ming Confucian Cosmography." Paper read at the Annual Symposium, "Maritime China: Culture, Commerce, and Society," University of California at Berkeley, March 13-14, 1998.

35. "Myths, Reality, and Myths Again: The Nature of Nature in Xie Zhaozhe's Wuzazu." Paper read at the Conference on "Intersecting Areas and Disciplines: Cultural Studies of Chinese Science, Technology, and Medicine," Center for Chinese Studies, University of California at Berkeley, February 27-28, 1998.

36. "Translation as Cultural Reform: the Case of Jesuit Scholastic Psychology in Early Modern China." Paper read at the Workshop in the Chinese Humanistic and Historical Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California at Berkeley, October 3, 1997.

37. "Toward a Cultural Conversion: Jesuit Scholastic Psychology in the Transformation of the Confucian Discourse on Human Nature." Paper read at the International Conference on "The Jesuits: Culture, Learning and the Arts, 1540-1773," held at Boston College, May 28-June 1, 1997.

38. "Confucianism and its Impact on the Philosophes of the Enlightenment." Memorandum with an extensive annotated bibliography presented to the research project, "A Confucian Reflection on the Enlightenment Mentality," organized by Professor Wei-ming Tu and sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, March-April 1997.

39. "Mission, Science, and Culture: Early Modern Hegemonic Discourse in the Chinese Writings of Matteo Ricci, S.J." Paper read at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, on February 18, 1997.

40. "Cultural Accommodation or Intellectual Colonization: Rethinking the Jesuit Approach to Confucianism." Paper read at the Harvard Seminar in Confucian Studies, February 18, 1997.

41. "The Problems of Cultural (In)Commensurability: Jesuit Scholastic Psychology and its Reception in China during the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries." Paper read at the Workshop on Early Science, Harvard University, February16, 1995.

Honors and Grants

2017-2019: Stroupe Faculty Fellowship, Wake Forest University

2018: Archie Grant, Wake Forest University (to fund my summer research travel and field work in Jiangxi, Fujian, and Anhui provinces and at Shanghai Municipal Library, China).

2017: Research Fellowship for International Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. This fellowship funded my full-time research at the university and several other institutions in the Greater Kyoto area, May 15-August 18.

2015:

2015 Academic Excellence Award of the Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS)

Archie Grant, Wake Forest University (to fund my research travel in Beijing, China, in July 2015)

2013: Templeton Science and Religion in East Asia Visiting Fellowship, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

2009-2010, Archie Grant, Wake Forest University (to fund my research travel in Hangzhou, China, in July 2010)

2009, The Griffin Funds, Department of History, Wake Forest University (to fund my research at the Library of Congress in June 2009)

2007, Book Grant, Li-Ching Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taiwan

2005 & 2006, Summer Research Grants, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

2000-2002, Connecticut State University System Faculty Research Fellowships

1999-2000, Society for the Humanities Fellowship, Cornell University (offer declined)

1998-1999, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of History/Center for the Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

1997-1998, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley

1996-1997, Senior Fellowship, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University

1995-1996, Eliot Fellowship for Dissertation Completion, Harvard University

1994-1995, China Times Cultural Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship, New York

1989-1993, Harvard-Yenching Scholarships

1990, Prize for Scholarly Excellence in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, awarded by the Ministry of Education, China (for my collaborated book in Chinese)

Academic Society Memberships

American Historical Association

Association for Asian Studies

History of Science Society

Chinese Historians of United States

Languages

Chinese: native speaker; English: fluent; Korean: intermediary; French: reading; German: reading; Latin: reading; Italian: reading and speaking (elementary); Japanese (elementary)

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