Jia-Chen Fu

Research Article
September 3, 2023

Would Mr. Science Eat the Chinese Diet?

Although science has been central to the history and historiography of the May Fourth Movement, our understanding of how
book review
November 16, 2021

Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton

In April 1936, the final section of the Canton-Hankow railway was completed, and with it a new age of national rice...
Research Article
November 16, 2021

Houses of Experiment: Making Space for Science in Republican China

This essay explores the scientific lives of two Republican-period institutions: the Henry Lester Institute of Medical...
Research Article
November 15, 2021

Practice and the History of Science in the PRC: A Historiographic Reflection

Recent scholarship on the history of science in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has provided new horizons...