Zuoyue Wang

“Practicing Mr. Science: Chinese Scientists and the May Fourth Movement from Zhu Kezhen to Fang Lizhi,” East Asian Science, Technology and Society 16, no. 3 (2022): 327-348. PDF

“历史研究遭遇政治规矩——简评中信版《蚕丝》中译本对原著的删改,” 《华夏文摘》2021年11月17日（“上”）、18日（“下”），共同作者华新民。[“When Historical Research Met Political Rules: A Brief Commentary on Deletions and Revisions in the Chinese Translation of Thread of the Silkworm [a biography of Qian Xuesen (H. S. Tsien) by Iris Chang],” Chinese News Digest, November 17-18, 2021, co-authored by Xinmin Hua]. PDF.  

“Hongye Fan [樊洪业]: A Pioneer in the Historical Studies of Science in Modern China,” East Asian Science, Technology and Society 15, no. 3 (2021): 381-385. Co-authored by Weimin Xiong. PDF.

“Commentary on Science for the People, China: Science Walks on Two Legs,” Science for the People magazine Special Collection 2021“Rereading China: Science Walks on Two Legs: A Critical Edition of an SftP Classic,” September 6, 2021, PDF.（“评美国‘科学为人民’组织的1974年报告《两条腿走路的中国科学》”《华夏文摘》2022年4月7日（PDF）） (China: Science Walks on Two Legs (1974) and Chinese translation 《两条腿走路的中国科学》).

“Q&A [with David Barboza]: Zuoyue Wang on the History of Chinese Students at U.S. Universities,” The Wire China, July 18, 2021. PDF.

“How Did Qian Xuesen Contribute to American and Chinese Space Programs?” Filling Space, January 15, 2021. （谷歌中文翻译“钱学森如何为美国和中国的太空计划做出贡献？”PDF）

“Entangled Worldlines: Four Physicists Whose Transnational Trajectories Reshaped Physics and Diplomacy in China and the United States,” Forum on International Physics Newsletter (American Physical Society), August 2020. PDF

“From Modern Physics to the Cold War and Beyond,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 50, nos. 1-2 (2020): 25-30. Part of a special issue entitled “Looking Backward, Looking Forward: HSNS at 50.” PDF [“从现代物理到冷战及之后：一本影响几代科学史人的杂志”，微信公众号《返朴》，2020年5月5日.PDF]

“Transnational Mathematics and Movements: Shiing-shen Chern, Hua Luogeng, and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study from World War II to the Cold War,” Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology 3, no. 2 (2019): 118-165. Co-authored by Jinhai Guo. PDF

“Controlled Exchanges: Public-Private Hybridity, Transnational Networking, and Knowledge Circulation in US-China Scientific Discourse on Nuclear Arms Control,” in John Krige (ed.), How Knowledge Moves: Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), 368-410.  Preview at Google Books.

“从康奈尔、列宁格勒到哥本哈根、加州理工：清华大学物理学家张礼教授访谈录”，《科学文化评论》，第15卷，第2期（2018）：101-118，王作跃、尹晓冬访谈整理。[“From Cornell and Leningrad to Copenhagen and Caltech: An Interview with the Physicist Professor Zhang Li of Tsinghua University,” Science and Culture Review 15, no. 2 (2018): 101-118, in Chinese, co-authored by Yin Xiaodong.] PDF.

“Theory Attached to Practice: Chinese Debates over Basic Research from Thought Remolding to the Bomb, 1949-1966,” in David Kaldewey and Desiree Schauz (eds.), Basic and Applied Research: The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018), 228-247. Open access courtesy of the University of Bonn. PDF.

“Donald F. Hornig,” American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). PDF.

Essay review of Zhu Kezhen Quanji (竺可桢全集The Complete Works of Coching Chu), East Asian Science, Technology and Society 12, no. 2 (June 2018). PDF. [“存真求全的《竺可桢全集》：历史学家的梦想成真”微信公众号《科学春秋》2018年9月27日；PDF]

“Science under the Trump Administration in Historical Perspective,” H-Diplo/ISSF (International Security Studies Forum), April 17, 2018. PDF here or here.

“李政道杨振宁遭遇冷处理：60年前中国人第一次获诺奖”,《知识分子》(微信公众号)，2017年11月26日，共同作者华新民， PDF. 另载华夏文摘。[“T. D. Lee and C. N. Yang Received Cold Treatment: The First Chinese Nobel Laureates 60 Years Ago,” The Intellectual (a daily publication on Chinese social media Wechat), November 26, 2017, in Chinese, co-authored by Xinmin Hua, also appearing on China New Digest, November 29, 2017, Google-translated English version PDF]; “李政道杨振宁遭遇冷处理：六十多年前中国人第一次获诺奖”, 《科学文化评论》第17卷，2020年第1期，第5-28页，共同作者华新民, PDF。[“T. D. Lee and C. N. Yang Received Cold Treatment: The First Chinese Nobel Laureates More Than 60 Years Ago,” Science and Culture Review 17, no, 1 (2020): 5-28, co-authored by Xinmin Hua, in Chinese.] [杨振宁、何祚庥，“李政道杨振宁获诺贝尔奖的相关情况”，《科学文化评论》第17卷，2020年第4期，第99-103页，PDF（包括华新民、王作跃回应）。]

“Summer 2017 Travels in China and Korea: A Report on Some History of Science Events,” The Pacific Circle Bulletin, no. 39 (October 2017): 4-6. PDF.

“Archival Materials Related to Chinese American Scientists and Modern China,” PRC History Review 2, no. 3 (June 2017): 21-23. Another PDF

“受加州理工影响的台湾学子：吴建民教授访谈录”，《科学文化评论》，第13卷第5期（2016年），第73-102页, 共同作者（访谈者）张志会。 [“Caltech’s Taiwanese Graduates: Interviews with Professor Jain-Ming ‘Jimmy’ Wu,” Science and Culture Review 13, no, 5 (2016): 73-102, in Chinese. Co-authored by ZHANG Zhihui.]

“从杰出华裔女科学家到企业家：林颖珠访谈录”，《科学文化评论》，第13卷第3期（2016年），第95-109页，共同作者（访谈者）张志会。[“A Distinguished Chinese American Woman, Scientist, and Entrepreneur: Interviews with Professor Susan Y. L. Wu,” Science and Culture Review 13, no. 3 (2016): 95-109, in Chinese. Co-authored by ZHANG Zhihui.]

“Planning for Science and Technology in China and India,” BJHS Themes 1 (2016): 83-113, open access. Co-authored by Jahnavi Phalkey.  PDF.

“冷战时期到奥巴马时代美国科技决策咨询研究,” 《文汇报》，2016年9月30日(“科学家们挤进了白宫,” “NASA诞生,” “卡逊《寂静的春天》,” “反弹道导弹,” “气候变化”)。PDF. [“American advisory system for policy-making in science and technology from the Cold War to Obama,” Wenhuibao, September 30, 2016, in Chinese.] [文章在《战略与政策论坛》、《科学春秋》微信公共号上转载。]

“中国科学社美国分社历史研究”，《自然辩证法通讯》，第38卷第3期（2016年5月），1-11页。[“A Historical Study of the American Branch of the Science Society of China,” Journal of the Dialectics of Nature 38, no. 3 (May 2016): 1-11, in Chinese.]

“The Chinese Developmental State during the Cold War: The Making of the 1956 Twelve-Year Science and Technology Plan,” History and Technology 31, no. 3 (2015): 180-205. PDF.

“Sputnik Moments: Science and Technology Policy from Eisenhower to Obama,” in Andrew J. Polsky (ed.), The Eisenhower Presidency: Lessons for the Twenty-First Century (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015), 117-129. PDF.

“冷战时代的中国如何造出‘两弹一星’”，澎湃网站，2015年7月17日。[“How Did China Make Bombs, Missiles, and Satellites during the Cold War,” The Paper, July 17, 2015, in Chinese.] PDF

“A Summer in China,” The Pacific Circle Bulletin, no. 34 (April 2015): 3-6. PDF.

“The Cold War and the Reshaping of Transnational Science in China*,” in Naomi Oreskes and John Krige (eds.), Science and Technology in the Global Cold War (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014), 343-370. Excerpts at Google Books. PDF. On the Bacon conference at Caltech in May 2010, on which this volume is based, see Matthew Shindell, “How the Cold War Transformed Science,” History of Science Society Newsletter, October 2010.

Entries in Hugh Slotten (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology, 2 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014): James R. Killian, Jr. (v. 1, pp. 607-608); Tsung-Dao Lee (v. 1, pp. 627-628); Office of Science and Technology Policy (v. 2, pp. 200-201); President’s Science Advisory Committee (v. 2, pp. 285-286); Chien-Shiung Wu (v. 2, pp. 600-601); Chen-Ning Yang (v. 2, pp. 603-604). Copyright Oxford University Press.

Entries in Xiaojian Zhao and Edward J. W. Park (eds.), Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, and Political Change (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2014): Shiing-Shen Chern (pp. 206-207); Steven Chu (pp. 316-318); Tsung Dao Lee (pp. 773-775); Yuan Tseh Lee (pp. 777-779); Yoshiro Nambu (pp. 862-863); Samuel Chao Chung Ting (pp. 1113-1115); Chien-Shiung Wu (pp. 1207-1209); Chen-Ning Yang (pp. 1224-1227); Shing-Tung Yau (pp. 1233-1234); Yitang Zhang (pp. 1251-1252).

“科学史家许良英”，《中国科技史杂志》，第35卷，2014年第1期，49-61页，共同作者胡大年。 [“The Historian of Science Xu Liangying,” The Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology 35, no. 1 (2014): 49-61. Co-authored by Danian Hu. In Chinese with English abstract at end of paper.]  

 “1963年中国物理学家赴丹麦玻尔研究所访问研究的历史考察”，《自然科学史研究》，第32卷，2013年第4期，470-490页，共同作者尹晓冬。[“A Historical Study of Chinese Physicists’ Visits at the Niels Bohr Institute of Denmark in the 1960s,” Studies in the History of Natural Sciences 32, no. 4 (2013): 470-490. Co-authored by Xiaodong Yin. In Chinese with English abstract at end of paper.]

“追忆胡新和”, 《光明日报》，2013年7月29日，第13版。[“In Memory of Hu Xinhe” (Chinese philosopher of science), Guangming Daily, July 29, 2013, p. 13, in Chinese.] PDF

“Engineering a New Space: Chinese American Scientists and Engineers in Aerospace in Southern California.” In Blue Sky Metropolis: A Century of Aerospace in Southern California, ed. Peter Westwick, 197-213. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press for Huntington Library Press, 2012.

 “China, Sputnik, and American Science,” APS [American Physical Society] News 20, no. 10 (November 2011): 4, 7.  PDF.  Chinese translation: “中国、苏联卫星和美国科学—从谢家麟的经历看中美科技关系的演化”，《现代物理知识》，2012年，第24卷第一期第15-16页。

“Asian Pacific Science and Technology at Two Conferences in Summer 2011,” The Pacific Circle Bulletin, no. 27 (October 2011): 3-5. PDF.

“Lawrence Badash,” Physics Today 64, no. 4 (April 2011): 70-71.  Co-authored by Peter Neushul.

“Transnational Science during the Cold War: The Case of Chinese/American Scientists.” Focus section on “New Perspectives on Science and the Cold War.”  Isis 101, no. 2 (June 2010): 367-377. PDF

"China and the International Geophysical Year." In Globalizing Polar Science: Reconsidering the Social and Intellectual Implications of the International Polar and Geophysical Years, eds. Roger D. Launius, James R. Fleming, and David H. Devorkins, 143-155. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Co-authored by Zhang Jiuchen (张九辰).

“美国近现代科技环境政策史研究：从总统科学顾问委员会到奥巴马”,《科学文化评论》，2010年2月，第7卷第1期, 107-114页。 [“Historical Studies in American Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy: From the President’s Science Advisory Committee to Obama.” Science and Culture Review 7, no. 1 (February 2010): 107-114, in Chinese.] PDF.

“Physics in China in the Context of the Cold War, 1949-1976.” In Physics and Politics, eds. Helmuth Trischler and Mark Walker, 251-276. Berlin: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 

“首次国际地球物理年与一个中国的原则”,《科学文化评论》，2009年12月，第6卷第6期, 69-81页。与张九辰合著。 [“The First International Geophysical Year and the One-China Principle.” Science and Culture Review 6, no. 6 (December 2009): 69-81, in Chinese.  Co-authored by Jiuchen Zhang.]

“从全球变暖看美国科技环境政策”,《光明日报》，2009年7月13日11版 (《光明日报》记者张蕾访谈。PDF). [“American Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy: The Case of Global Warming,” An interview with Zhang Lei, Guangming Daily, July 13, 2009, p. 11.]

“‘中国现代化进程中的科学与技术’研讨会综述” ,《中国科技史杂志》30卷，第2期（2009年）：24-27。张藜合著.  [“A Report on the Conference on ‘Science and Technology in the Making of Modern China,’ The Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology 30, no. 2 (2009): 24-27. Co-authored by Zhang Li.]  See also 予馨，“首届中国近现代科技史国际研讨会在南加召开：会议组织者、科学史家王作跃教授专访”，《城市杂志》(洛杉矶)，总496期（2009年3月23-29日），12-14页。[Yu Xin, “The First International Conference on the History of Science and Technology in Modern China Held in Southern California: A Special Interview with Professor Zuoyue Wang, an Organizer of the Conference and a Historian of Science,” City Newsweek (Los Angeles), cumulative issue no. 496 (March 23-29, 2009): 12-14. Both in Chinese.]

“‘学好数理化。。。’：1978年后大陆留美科学家研究”  ，载《北美华侨华人新视角--华侨华人研究上海论坛文集》，139-148页，国务院侨务办公室政研司编，北京，中国华侨出版社，2008年出版。[“‘If You Learn Your Math, Physics, and Chemistry…’: A Historical Study of Chinese Scientists in the US since 1978.” In New Perspectives on Chinese in North America, 139-148. Beijing: Overseas Chinese Press, 2008. In Chinese.] 

“What Can We Expect from the New [Obama] Administration?” Harvey Mudd College Magazine, Winter 2008, 16-17. Co-authored by Richard Olson. (PDF)

“History of Science and American Science Policy.” Isis 99, no. 2 (June 2008): 365-373.  Co-authored by Naomi Oreskes.  Copyright History of Science Society and the University of Chicago Press. PDF

Entries in Noretta Koertge (chief. ed.), New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2007) (Copyright Scribner’s Sons):

            “Chien-Shiung WU” (Chinese American woman nuclear physicist) (363-368) 

            “ZHAO Zhongyao” (Chinese nuclear physicist) (397-402)

           “ZHU Kezhen” (Chinese meteorologist and science administrator) (402-405)

 “Science and the State in Modern China.” Isis 98, no. 3 (September 2007): 558-570. Copyright History of Science Society and the University of Chicago Press.

“近现代中国科技史研究：历史、现状与展望”,《中国科技史杂志》第28卷第4期(2007年)：386-389。[“Studies in the History of Science and Technology in Modern China: Past, Present, and Prospects,” Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology 28, no. 4 (2007): 386-389, in Chinese.]

“当代美国科教政策的变迁: 从卫星危机到9.11 ,” 《科学时报》2007年9月4日,   B4. [“Recent Evolution of American Science and Education Policy: From the Sputnik Crisis to 9/11,” Science Times, September 4, 2007, B4, in Chinese.] 

“China Goes to the Poles: Science, Nationalism, and Internationalism in Chinese Polar Exploration.” In Extremes: Oceanography’s Adventures at the Poles, eds. Keith R. Benson and Helen M. Rozwadowski, 269-302. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2007.  Copyright Science History Publications. Available from this www.amazon.com link. Reviews in Oceanography and Isis.

 “Ristrutturazione” (restructuring). In Storia della Scienza (history of science), v. 8, ed. Sandro Petruccioli (gen. ed.), 553-560 (excerpt online and PDF). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2005, in Italian.  On the post-World War II international restructuring in science and technology.

“学习科学史的心路历程,”《中国科技史杂志》, 2005年第26卷第2期176-179。[“Becoming a Historian of Science,” The Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology 26, no. 2 (June 2005): 176-179.]

“为什么美国没有设立科技部?”《科学文化评论》2005年 第2卷第5期, 36-49页。 [“Why Has the United States Not Established a Department of Science and Technology?” Science and Culture 2, no. 5 (2005): 36-49.  Please note that this PDF file version contains corrections of minor errors present in the print version and is slightly different from it in formatting.]  

"Saving China through Science: The Science Society of China, Scientific Nationalism, and Civil Society in Republican China." Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 17 (2002): 291-322.  (A thematic issue on Science and Civil Society edited by Lynn K. Nyhart and Thomas Broman).  Copyright History of Science Society and University of Chicago Press.

“Science, Technology, and Foreign Policy.” (pdf version) In Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas.  Eds. Alexander DeConde, et al., v. 3, 443-459. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002.  Co-authored by Ronald Doel.  Copyright Scribner’s Sons.

“Chinese American Scientists and U.S.-China Scientific Relations: From Richard Nixon to Wen Ho Lee.” In The Expanding Roles of Chinese Americans in U.S.-China Relations: Transnational Networks and Trans-Pacific Interactions, eds. Peter H. Koehn and Xiao-huang Yin, 207-334. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2002.  A Chinese translation of the book appeared in 2004: “华裔美国科学家和美中科学关系：从尼克松到李文和,”　安金辉译，孔秉德和尹晓煌编,《美籍华人与中美关系》北京：新华出版社， 2004年,第239-262页。

"'Ideologically Correct' Science: French Revolution, Soviet Union, National Socialism, WWII Japan, McCarthyism, and People’s Republic of China." In Science and Ideology: A Comparative History, ed. Mark Walker, 35-65. London and New York: Routledge, 2002.  Co-authored by Michael Gordin, Walter Grunden, and Mark Walker.  PDF. Copyright Routledge. German translation appeared as "Ideologisch korrekte'  Wissenschaft: Französische Revolution, Sowjetunion, Nationalsozialismus, Japan im Zweiten Weltkrieg, McCarthy-Ära, Volksrepublik China," In Uwe Hoßfeld and Rainer Brömer (eds.), Darwinismus und/als Ideologie (Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2001), 29-69.

Entries for "Scientific advice to the president" (pp. 451-453), "United States House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology" (132-133), "United States Office of Naval Research" (411-412), in Marc Rothenberg (ed.), The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Publishing, 2001). Copyright Garland Publishing.

"Between the Devil and the Deep Sea: C. K. Tseng, Mariculture, and the Politics of Science in Modern China." Isis 91, no. 1 (March 2000): 59-88.  Co-authored by Peter Neushul.  Copyright History of Science Society and the University of Chicago Press.  Winner of the 2003 Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize from the History of Science Society.  See also 李虎军, “科学史家笔下的曾呈奎”(pdf).  

"US-China Scientific Exchange: A Case Study of State-Sponsored Scientific Internationalism during the Cold War and beyond." Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 30, pt. 1 (1999): 249-277 (excerpted as “The History, Importance of U.S.-China Scientific Exchanges,” US-China Review 45, no. 2 (Spring 2021): 13-14).  Copyright University of California Press. PDF

Entries on three physicists in American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999): "James Brown Fisk," v. 8, 769-770; "William Houston," v. 11, 283-284; "Maria Gertrude Goeppert Mayer," v. 14, 769-770.  Copyright Oxford University Press.

"Responding to Silent Spring: Scientists, Popular Science Communication, and Environmental Policy in the Kennedy Years." Science Communication: An Interdisciplinary Social Science Journal 19, no. 4 (December 1997): 141-163. Copyright Sage Publications. The President’s Science Advisory Committee, Use of Pesticides (Washington, DC: White House, 1963) (public domain).

"The Politics of Big Science in the Cold War: PSAC [President's Science Advisory Committee] and the Funding of SLAC [Stanford Linear Accelerator Center]." Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 25, pt. 2 (1995): 329-356.  Copyright University of California Press. PDF

"The First World War, Academic Science, and the 'Two Cultures': Educational Reforms at the University of Cambridge." Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning, and Policy 33, no. 2 (Summer 1995): 107-127.  Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers.

“量子力学的两个研究纲领,”《自然辩证法通讯》1991年第13卷第4期 [“The Two Research Programs of Quantum Mechanics,” Journal of Dialectics of Nature 13, no. 4 (1991): 41-49].   On the conflict between Albert Einstein-Erwin Schrödinger's approach and that of Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. 

"James Chadwick" (20th century British nuclear physicist), in Frank N. Magill (ed.), Great Lives from History: British and Commonwealth Series (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1987), 560-564. Co-authored by L. Badash. Copyright Salem Press.