Shellen Wu

Shellen Wu is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She studies the history of science in modern China and how changes in the uses and exploitation of natural resources affected the modern Chinese state and society. Her book Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860–1920 is published with Stanford University Press in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Publication series.

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Anthropology On Science and Civilisation in China [long_description] When the first volume of Science and Civilisation in China was published in 1954, Chinese scientific and technological accomplishments were largely unknown in the West, even among scientists. The initiator of the series, the British biochemist Joseph Needham, subsequently became one of the most important conduits between Chinese science and the international community.

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