June 20
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CHADWICK WANG
Dr., Associate Professor
Department of the History of Science, Tsinghua University
Deputy Director,
Center for Science and Technology
Communication and Popularization of CAST and Tsinghua University
Mengminwei Humanities Building, Room 513, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
chengwei.thu@gmail.com
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EDUCATION
Tsinghua University -- Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS);
Tsinghua University -- B.E. in Electronic Science and Technology
RESEARCH AND TEACHING
Principal research interests: Discursive and Memory History of Science, Technology, and Innovation; Anthropology of Disease and Digital Real
Teaching: Research Method for Science and Technology Studies; Anthropology Seminar Series for Science, Technology and Medicine Studies; Information Technology, Self and Society; The History, Life, and Culture for Automobiles; Scientific Writing and Communication to the Public; A Bite on the Sociology (Top 5% in teaching evaluation); What We Talk About When Talk about Science; Seminar of History and Philosophy of Machines and Automata (Invited lecture in TU Munich)
EMPLOYMENT AND VISITING
Associate Professor & Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University (Jan 2012~)
Post-doc Research Fellow, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University (Jan 2010~Dec 2011)
Visiting Scholar, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University (Mar 2015~Mar 2016)
Visiting Research Scholar, Carl von Linde-Akademie, Technische Universität München (May ~ July 2011, Invited by Prof. Klaus Mainzer)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program of Science, Technology and Global Development at Earth Institute, Columbia University (Sep 2008~Mar 2009, Invited by Prof. Richard R. Nelson)
Visiting Researcher, Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI), The University of Edinburgh (May ~ July 2008, Invited by Prof. Robin Williams)
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Teaching and Research Awards
Excellent Award for the Universities Association Program (2019)
Annual Excellent Teaching Awards for 2017 Tsinghua University (2018)
Excellent Paper Awards of the 2017 Annual Meeting for Chinese of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (2017, with Ms. Li Feifei)
Excellent Paper Awards of the 2013 Annual Meeting for Chinese Sociological Association (2013)
Excellent Paper Awards of the 6th Annual Meeting for Studies in Science of Science and Policy of Science and Technology (2010)
Special Funding for Ph.D. Dissertation on “Soft Science” by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (2010)
Excellent Award for Doctoral Dissertation in Universities Association (2009)
Academic Grants (Selected)
National Science Foundation of China: “The unique roles of the science foundation in building the world science and technology power (L182400018, 2018-2019, in charge)
National Science Foundation of China: “Organizational and Institutional foundation for the Formation of Science-funding Cultures” (L1624016, 2017-2018, in charge)
Tsinghua University Cultural Inheritance and Innovation Program: “Greenery for Red Engineers: The Reestablishment of Humanity and Social Sciences in Tsinghua” (2016THZWWH04, 2017-2019, in charge)
National Science Foundation of China: “Studies on National Open Innovation System” (71573148, 2016-2019, chief researcher)
National Science Foundation of China: “Policy Learning, Policy Experimentation, and Policy Innovation: Theoretical and Empirical Studies Basing on a 2-D Multiple Streams Evolutionary Model” (71103105, 2012-2014, in charge)
Tsinghua University Cultural Inheritance and Innovation Program: “The Mutual Construction Mechanisms and Issues on Science, Technology, and Society: Case and Comparative Studies in China” (2012WHYX007, 2012-2013, in charge)
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation: “Between Authoritarian Society and Civil Society: On Two-way Mechanism of Information Technology Governance in China" (Special Fuddling 201104122, 2011-2012, in charge)
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation: “Triggering Mechanisms of Policy Learning in the Globalization Trends: Theoretical and Empirical Studies in the New Perspective of Constructionism” (General fuddling 20100470164, 2010-2011, in charge)
EU Framework Program 7: “China EU Information Technology Standards Research Partnership” (No. 217457 -- chief researcher)
PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles
Li, Feifei, and Chadwick Wang*. "‘A Good Guy Again’: Biosociality in a Cancer Self-Help Organization." Medical Anthropology, https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2020.1775219.
Wang Chengwei. “Organizational Coordination in “Great Battles: Case from the Leprosy and Malaria Epidemic Preventions in the Early Years of P.R. China”. Studies in Science of Science, 2020(4): 595-602. (Cover Remarked paper in this Issue)
WANG Chengwei. “Three Logics for Artificial intelligence in Medicine”. Medicine and Philosophy, 2020(5): 5-9, 24.
Wang Chengwei. “How ‘Locales’ Become Laboratories: Case from the History of Leprosy Prevention in Chinese Collectivization Period”. Studies in Dialectics of Nature, 2019(9): 79-84.
Wang Chengwei, Yang Kunyun. “Enterprising and Lost: Professional Lives for Programmer-Interns”. Chinese Journal of Sociology. 39(3): 93-122.
CHEN Xiaoxu, WANG Chadwick*. “Migrant Gaming Girls in Beijing: Urban Solitude, Play, and Attempts to Integrate”. Ethnography, (Article first published online: May 1, 2019)
Rong Yijie, Wang Chengwei. “The ‘Good’ or ‘Bad’ Biomedical Innovations: A Historical Review of the Deep Brain Stimulation Technologies”. Medicine and Philosophy, 2019(6): 12-16.
Li Feifei, Wang Chengwei. “How to Make Self-Empowerment Possible for Breast Cancer Female: Reflection on Cancer Narrative Studies”. Medicine and Philosophy, 2019(6): 17-20.
WANG Chengwei. “Exploring the Scientific Funding Culture: Ethnomethodology behind the Institutional Talks”. Science of Science and Management of S. & T., 2017(12): 37-49.
WANG Chadwick (Chengwei), WANG Luhao. “Unfolding the Innovation Intermediaries’ Policies in China: A Discourse Network Analysis to the Incubator Related Reports in ‘People’s Daily’”. Science and Public Policy (2017) 44 (3): 354-368.
WANG Chengwei, Li Zhenguo. “Do We Need A “Demand-Side Innovation Policy” ?: Experiences from “Advanced” Countries”. Studies in Science of Science, 2016(12): 1789-1799. (Cover Remarked paper in this Issue, Reprinted by Information Center for Social Science, RUC)
WANG Chengwei. “Ontological Foundation for Innovation Policy Network: Case from the Diffusion of ‘Innovation Ecosystem’ Discourse in American Congress”. Science of Science and Management of S. & T., 2016 (10): 14-26. (Reprinted by Information Center for Social Science, RUC)
ZHANG Hongyao, WANG Chengwei. “Catching-up or Divergence: An Explanatory Framework for the ‘Japanese Sugar Miracle’”. Science of Science and Management of S. & T. 2015(8): 61-72.
WANG Chengwei. “Is ‘Big Data’ a ‘Big Trend’: A Counterfactual Analysis basing on the Co-occurrence of Keywords”. Science of Science and Management of S. & T. 2015, 36(1): 3-11. (Journal’s 2015 Top 10 Best Articles Awards)
WANG Chengwei. “Could the Stereotype on Scientists be improved by More Contact: The Proposal of a Neo-DAST”. Studies in Science of Science, 2014(8): 1129-1137.
WANG Luhao, WANG Chengwei. “The Evolution of Definition and Role Model for Incubators in China: A Grounded Theory Analysis to the ‘People’s Daily’ Database”. Studies in Science of Science, 2014(3): 493-500 (Reprinted by Information Center for Social Science, RUC).
WANG Chengwei, WANG Luhao. “Mobilizing Legitimacy in Decoupling: A Grounded Theory Analysis to a University Incubator in Southern China”. Chinese Journal of Sociology. 2013(6): 30-58.
WANG Chengwei. “Cultural Roots for Corruption and Beyond: A fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis”. Journal of Social Sciences, 2013 (10):28-39.
WANG Luhao, WANG Chengwei. “Stratification mechanism in incubatees: Case from Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen”. Forum on Science and Technology in China, 2013(9): 44-50.
WANG Chengwei. “Could Strategic Emerging Industries be ‘Selected’?”. Science of Science and Management of S. & T., 2013(7): 131-140.
WANG Chengwei. “From Information Divide to Virtual Witnessing: How Could Internet Public Sphere be Possible?”. Science and Society, 2012(3): 82-97, 81. (Reprinted by Information Center for Social Science, RUC)
WANG Chengwei, ZENG Guoping. “Innovative City as One of the Sociotechnical Imaginaries”. Journal of Dialectics of Nature, 2012(4): 61-66.
Stewart, James; Shen, Xiaobai; Wang, Chengwei & Graham, Ian. “From 3G to 4G: standards and the development of mobile broadband in China”. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 2011, 23(7): 773-788.
WANG Chengwei. “Social Construction of Policy Veto: Case from Several Failures of Legislation to the Prohibition for “Human Flesh Search” in China”. Journal of Public Management, 2011(4): 55-65.
WANG Chengwei. “The Rediscovery of Information Society: An Answer from Actor-Network Theory”, Journal of Changsha University of Science & Technology (Social Science), 2011(5): 27-32. (Reprinted by Information Center for Social Science, RUC)
WANG Chengwei. “An Invitation to the Reflective Innovative Cities: Case from India’s Silicon Valley Bangalore”. Studies in Science of Science, 2011(4): 634-640.
WANG Chengwei. “Thinking Innovative City: From the Perspective of Multi-Capitals’ Production and Distribution”. Science of Science and Management of S. & T., 2011(4): 5-12. (Excellent Paper Awards of the 6th Annual Meeting of Studies in Science of Science and Policy of S&T)
WANG Chengwei. “Policy Learning and the Power of Discourse in the Globalization Trends: From Policy Knowledge to ‘Legitimacy’ Seeking”. Studies in Science of Science, 2010(3): 321-326. (Cover Remarked paper in this Issue)
WANG Chengwei. “The Obstacles and its Overcoming of Policy Learning: Case from China’s Drinking Water National Standard”. Chinese Journal of Sociology. 2010 30 (4): 32-51.
WANG Chengwei. “Study on the Reasons for the Implementation Obstacles of America COMPETES Act”. Forum on Science and Technology in China, 2010(5): 161-166.
WANG Chengwei. “From Multiple Stream to Stratified Evolution: Case from the Policy Agenda Dealing with Scientific Misconduct in China”. Studies in Science of Science, 2009(10): 1460-1467. (Cover Remarked Paper)
WANG Chengwei. “Social Learning of the Chinese Food Security Regulation Policy: Case from the ‘National Standard of Streamed bread’ in China”. Journal of Public Management, 2008(4): 1-8.
WANG Chengwei, ZENG, Guoping. “Knowledge Creation and Talent Cultivation: From ‘The Endless Frontier’ to ‘America COMPETS Act’”. Research on Education Tsinghua University, 2008(3): 78-84, 94. (Reprinted by Information Center for Social Science, RUC)
WANG Chengwei, ZENG, Guoping. “Social Shaping of Policy Paradigm - Case from the ‘America COMPETES Act’”, Studies in Science of Science, 26(1), 2008: 3-12. (Cover Remarked Paper)
WANG Chengwei, LI Zhengfeng. “Nonmarket Factors’ Promotion Mechanism to Innovation”, Studies in Science of Science: 25(supp.2), 2007: 426-432. (Cover Remarked Paper)
WANG Chengwei, LI Zhengfeng. “A New Model of Standardization Basing on Layered Evolvement”, China Soft Science, 2007(1): 42-48.
WANG Chengwei, LI Jizhen. “The Technological Innovation Advantages of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Chinese DTV industry”, Science Research Management, 27(2), 2006:31-35.
WANG Chengwei, LI Jizhen. “The Leapfrogging in DTV Industry: Comparative Research of China and Korea”, Journal of Science and Technology Management Research, 2005(9): 24-27.
Books (chapters) and Reports
WANG Chengwei. When Globefishes are Coming Upstream: Sociology of Food for All. Beijing: People's Literature Publishing House (IN PRESS)
WANG Chadwick. “Are We Living in a Computable World: Answers and Controversies from Chinese Scholars” in Wolfgang Pietsch, Jörg Wernecke and Maximilian Ott (eds.) Berechenbarkeit der Welt? Philosophie und Wissenschaft im Zeitalter von Big Data (Computability of the World? Philosophy and Science in the Age of Big Data). Springer VS, 2017: 263-288.
Gerybadze, A., Li Zhengfeng, Liu Li, Wang Chengwei. The Innovation System in China and Germany: A Comparison. In: Joint Paper of the Expert Group of the Sino-German Platform Innovation, Comparison in China and Germany. Pp.1-10. 2015.
WANG Chengwei. “The Leisure Culture and the Origin of ‘Collective Invention’ in the Early Modern U.K”. Academic Report on China Leisure Studies (2013). Beijing: Tourism Education Press, 2014: 114-128.
ZENG Guoping and WANG Chengwei, etc. The Capitalization and Globalization of Knowledge and the Science and Technology Innovation in China. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2013.
Steen, Håkon Ursin and WANG Chengwei. “Report on standards dynamics - mobile broadcasting”. China EU Information Technology Standards Research Partnership (Coordination & support action FP7-SSH-2007-1, 217457), Deliverable 13, 2010.
Stewart, James and WANG Chengwei. “Final report on Standards dynamics in the domain of Mobile Telephony: mobile broadband from 3G to 4G”. China EU Information Technology Standards Research Partnership (Coordination & support action FP7-SSH-2007-1, 217457), Deliverable 11, 2009.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY AND SERVICE
Secretary-general, Committee for Science and Technology Studies, Chinese Association for Dialectics of Nature
Reviewer for “Research Policy”, “East Asian Science, Technology, and Society”, “Museum Management and Curatorship”, “Frontiers of History in China”, “Studies in Science of Science”, “Chinese Journal of Sociology” and “Science of Science and Management of S. & T.” etc.
