Christine Y. L. Luk
PhD (Arizona State), 2014
Monograph
A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China, Springer, 2015 (the Chinese translation was published by the Commercial Press in 2021)
https://www.academia.edu/12267445/A_History_of_Biophysics_in_Contemporary_China
Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters
- “Chen Ziying and Woods Hole: Bringing the Marine Biological Laboratory to Amoy, China, 1930-1936″ Journal of the History of Biology (2021) vol. 54, iss. 2, pp. 151-173.
- “The First Marine Biological Station in Modern China: Amoy University and Amphioxus”in Jane Maienschein, Rachael Ankeny, Karl Matlin, eds. Why Study Biology by the Sea? (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), pp. 68-86.
- “Radium, Biophysics, and Radiobiology: Tracing the History of Radiobiology in Twentieth-Century China,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (March 2018) vol. 40, iss. 2, pp. 1-40.
- “Making Space for Engineering Education: the South China Institute of Engineering” Engineering Studies (2016) vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 163-188.
- “Biotech in Hong Kong: How Biologist-Entrepreneurs Pursued ‘Hong Kong’s Bioscience Dream’” East Asian Science, Technology, and Society: An International Journal (2016) vol. 10, iss. 3, pp. 291-313.
“Building Biophysics in Mid-century China: The University of Science and Technology of China” Journal of the History of Biology (2015) vol. 48, iss. 2, pp.
Current Projects
Professor Luk is now working on her second book project, about the history of spaces and places of seaside and lakeside biological investigation in modern China.