Zuoyue Wang

Zuoyue Wang

Professor, History, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences

Book Reviews

Thierry Montmerle and Yi Zhou, China and the International Astronomical Union: Divorce, Separation and Reconciliation (1958–1982), in Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 26, no. 3 (2023): 764-765. PDF here or here.

Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia, in Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology 7, no. 1 (2023): 177-178. PDF here or here.

“An Antiquated Language, Reimagined” (book review of Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution that Made China Modern), in Science 375, no. 6577 (January 14, 2022): 151.

Arunabh Ghosh, Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China, in Isis 112, no. 2 (June 2021): 428-429.

Greg Whitesides, Science and American Foreign Relations since World War II, in American Historical Review 125, no. 5 (December 2020): 1915–1916.

王国强,《前沿科技评论——全球视野下的创新发展与选择》, in《科学文化评论》第17 卷第4 期(2020): 121-123.

Thomas S. Mullaney, The Chinese Typewriter: A History, in Journal of Asian Studies 77, no. 4 (November 2018): 1076-1078.

Essay review of Zhu Kezhen Quanji (竺可桢全集The Complete Works of Coching Chu) , in East Asian Science, Technology and Society 12, no. 2 (June 2018): 201-209

Yanek Mieczkowski, Eisenhower’s Sputnik Moment: The Race for Space and World Prestige, in Journal of Cold War Studies 18, no. 4 (Fall 2016): 257-259.

Lawrence R. Sullivan and Nancy Y. Liu, Historical Dictionary of Science and Technology in Modern China, in Isis 107, no. 3 (September 2016): 652-654.

Matthew Farish, The Contours of America’s Cold War, in Journal of American History 98, no. 4 (March 2012): 1191-1192.

Jon Hunner, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West, in Pacific Historical Review 80, no. 1 (February 2011): 161-162

Zhang Jian Ke xue she tuan zai jin dai Zhongguo de ming yun: yi Zhongguo ke xue she wei zhong xin (Science associations and the change of society in modern China: A study on the Science Society of China), in Isis 99, no. 2 (June 2008): 437-438.

Charles Thorpe, Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, in Isis 99, no. 1 (March 2008): 228-229.

John Krige, American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe,, in Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 105, no. 2 (Spring 2007): 358-360.

Laurence Schneider, Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China, in East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, no. 23 (2005): 145-146.

Richard Polenberg, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Security Clearance Hearing , in Isis 95, no. 4 (December 2004): 750-751.

Evan A. Feigenbaum, China’s Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear and the Information Age, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 35, no. 4 (Spring 2004): 679-681

Paul Dickson, Sputnik: The Shock of the Century, in Isis 94, no. 4 (December 2003): 766-767.

Edward Teller with Judith Shoolery, Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics, in Isis 94, no. 2 (June 2003): 419-420.

Morris Low (ed.), Beyond Joseph Needham: Science, Technology, and Medicine in East and Southeast Asia, in Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 32, no. 2 (2002): 5-6.

Allan A. Needell, Science, Cold War, and the American State: Lloyd V. Berkner and the Balance of Professional Ideals, in Isis 93, no. 2 (June 2002): 343-345.

Robert Crease, Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946-1972, in Annals of Science 58, no.1 (2001): 93-94.

Fan Dainian and Robert S. Cohen (eds.), Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, in Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 31, no. 2 (2001): 382-383.

Iris Chang, Thread of the Silkworm, in Isis 91, no. 3 (September 2000): 628-629.

William J. Haas, China Voyager: Gist Gee's Life in Science, in Isis 90, no. 4 (December 1999): 845-846.  Co-authored by Jedidiah Kroncke. 

Pascal Zachary, Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century., in Isis 90, no. 2 (June 1999): 386-387

Daniel R. Sarewitz, Frontiers of Illusion: Science, Technology, and the Politics of Progress, in Isis 90, no. 1 (March 1999): 147-148

Lyman Miller, Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China: The Politics of Knowledge, in Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 27, pt. 2 (1997): 363-364

Paul Forman and José M. Sanchez-Ron (eds.), National Military Establishments and the Advancement of Science and Technology, in Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 27, pt. 2 (1997): 358-359

Etel Solingen (ed.), Scientists and the State: Domestic Structures and International Context, in Technology and Culture 37, no. 1 (January 1996): 213-215

Philip Stehle, Order, Chaos, Order: The Transition from Classical to Quantum Physics, in Physics Today 48, no. 1 (January 1995): 56

Jack S. Goldstein, A Different Sort of Time: The Life of Jerrold R. Zacharias, Scientist, Engineer, Educator, in Isis 84, no. 4 (December 1993): 825-826

Bruce L. R. Smith, American Science Policy since World War II, in Isis 84, no. 3 (September 1993): 614-615

Lillian Hoddeson, et al. (eds.), Out of the Crystal Maze: Chapters from the History of Solid State Physics, in American Journal of Physics 61, no. 8 (August 1993): 766

David Cahan, An Institute for an Empire: The Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, 1871-1918, in American Journal of Physics 58, no. 6 (June 1990): 604-605

Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, in Technology and Culture 30, no. 4 (1989): 1078-1081.  Reprinted in Elizabeth Thomason (ed.), Nonfiction Classics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Nonfiction Works, v. 1 (New York: Gale Group, 2001), 210-211.