Associate Professor
Email：shenyubin@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Current Position
Associate Professor, Department of the History of Science, Tsinghua University
Research Interests
History of Science, Technology, Medicine, and the Environment in Modern China and East Asia; Global and Transnational Histories; Multispecies Histories (animals, plants, and microbes in particular)
Education
2009-2017 Ph.D., Department of History, Georgetown University
2006-2009 M.A. in Modern Chinese History, Department of History, Nanjing University
2001-2005 B.A. in History, Department of History, Nanjing University
Professional Experiences:
02/2023 – Present, Associate Professor, Department of the History of Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing
02/2020- 02/2023, Associate Professor, Department of History (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai
09/2019-11/2019 Visiting Scholar, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei
09/2017-12/2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
10/2016-03/2017 Jing Brand Fellow, the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge
09/2014-08/2015 Davis Teaching Fellow, Department of History, Georgetown University，Washington DC
Course Taught
Global History of Modern Science; Global History of Health; Social History of Medicine in Modern China; Introduction to Animal History;
Current Research Projects:
- Global Networks of Malaria: Tropical Medicine in Modern China
- Applied Entomology, Pest Control and the Making of the Anthropocene in Modern China
- Global Cropscapes of Medicinal Plants in Modern China
Selected Fellowships and Grants
2016-2017 Jing Brand Research Fellowship, the Needham Research Institute
2015-2016 Dissertation Fellowship, D Kim Foundation for the History of Science and
Technology in East Asia
2013 Pre-Dissertation Grant, the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS in China Studies
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
“Global Botanical Networks, Developmental State, and Anti-Malarial Medicines: Cultivating Cinchona in Southwest China, 1930s-1950s,” Social History of Medicine, volume 34, Issue 2 (May 2021), 577–591.
“Human, Animal, and the Environment: An Introduction to One Health History,” Journal of Macao Polytechnic Institute, volume 80,no.4 (2020): 64-70. (In Chinese,《人与动物和环境：“同一种健康史”研究刍议》，《澳门理工学报（人文社会科学版）》，2020年第4期，第64-70页)
“Pneumonic Plagues, Environmental Changes, and the International Fur Trade: The Retreat of Tarbagan Marmots from Northwest Manchuria,” Frontiers of History in China, volume 14, no.3 (2019): 291-322.
“The Animal Turn in Global History,” Shixue yuekan , no.3 (2019):125-131. (In Chinese,《全球史研究的动物转向》，《史学月刊》，2019年第3期，第125-131页)
“Disease, the Body, and Consumer Culture of Patent Medicine in Modern China: A Study on Man-made Blood,” Xin Shixue, volume 9 (2018): 156-188. (In Chinese, 《近代中国的疾病、身体与成药消费文化：以五洲大药房人造自来血为中心的考察》，《新史学》，2018年第9卷，第156-168页)
“Too Young to Date! The Origins of Zaolian (Early Love) as a Social Problem in 20th-century China,” History of Science, volume 53, no.1 (2015): 86–101.
Book Reviews
Review on Sigrid Schmalzer. Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China, East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (2022)
Chieko Nakajima. Body, Society, and Nation: The Creation of Public Health and Urban Culture in Shanghai, Medical History, volume 63, no.4 (2019): 514-515.
Scholarly Translations
“Environmentalism and Environmental Movements in China since 1949,” (author: Bao Maohong) in J.R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin eds., A Companion to Global Environmental History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 474-492. (Chinese to English)
“Of Flesh and Bones: The Management of Death Pollution in Cantonese Society,” (author: James L. Watson), in Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities, no.6 (November, 2008): 38-49. (English to Chinese)
“Dongshan Rebellion,” (author: William Rowe) in Wang Di ed., The New Social History: Time, Space, and Writing (Hangzhou: People’s Press of Zhejiang, 2006), 43-55. (English to Chinese)
