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Baichun ZHANG

Institute for the History of Natural Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IHNS CAS), Beijing, China

Email: zhang-office@ihns.ac.cn

Personal URL: http://english.ihns.cas.cn

Scopus Author ID: 56593822100

PhD (History of Science and Technology), Professor, Head of Scientific Committee of IHNS CAS; (the second institution: The Research Center for the History of Science and Technology, Nankai University Tianjin, P.R. China)

Research interests:

history of technology, mechanics and knowledge transmission; comparative studies of S&T development; S&T policies

Membership in scientific associations:

  • International Academy of the History of Science, member (since 2021)
  • IFToMM Permanent Commission for History of Mechanism and Machine Science, Executive member (since 2006)
  • European Society for the History of Science, member of Scientific Council (2014-2018)
  • Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, member of Executive Council (since 2011)
  • International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine, Vice-president (2005-2008)
  • Chinese Committee for History of Technology, Chairman (2004-2008)

Membership in the editorial boards of other journals:

  • “Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology” (Beijing, P.R. China), one of two Editors-in-Chief
  • “Science in Context” (Tel Aviv, Israel; Berlin, Germany), editorial board member
  • “East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine” (Paris, France), member of International Editorial Committee
  • “Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum” (Tallinn, Estonia), editorial board member
  • “Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences” (Beijing, P.R. China), editorial committee member
  • “History of Science and Science of Science” (Baku, Azerbaijan), editorial board member

Publications in the subject area of the journal “Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki” [“Studies in the History of Science and Technology”]:

  • Yang Chen Ning: Promoter of China-US Science and Technology Exchange and Cooperation, Studies in the History of Natural Sciences, 2021, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 347-386. (with Jinyan Liu, and Yueliang Wu) [in Chinese]
  • Notes on the Development of the Discipline of the History of Science and Technology, Studies in the History of Natural Sciences, 2021, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 115-119. [in Chinese]
  • Transfer of European Clock-Making Technology into China during the Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology, suppl. issue, 2020, pp. 9-25.
  • Ma Jun (the 3rd Century AD), in: Marco Ceccarelli, Yibing Fang. Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science: Their Contributions and Legacies, vol. 4, Springer, 2020, pp. 109-114. (with Yexin Liu)
  • Baichun Zhang, and Yibing Fang (eds.). Case Studies in Chinese Industrial Heritage. Jinan: Shandong Science and Technology Press, 2020. [in Chinese]
  • The Reconstruction of the Great Windmill in Chinese Tradition. Tainan: the Foundation of Pre-modern Chinese Machinery, 2020. (with Tsung-Yi Lin, Zhizhong Zhang, and Lie Sun) [in Chinese]
  • Planning Science and Technology: Working out and Implementing the Long-term Program for Developing Science and Technology from 1956 to 1967, Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019, vol. 34, no. 9, pp. 982-991. (with Jiuchun Zhang) [in Chinese]
  • Joseph Needham’s Research on Chinese Machines in the Cross-Cultural History of Science and Technology, Technology and Culture, 2019, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 616-624. (with Miao Tian)
  • A Review of the Reconstruction of the Astronomical Clock-tower, Journal of Dialectics of Nature (JDN), 2019, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 43-51. (with Jiuchun Zhang) [in Chinese]
  • The Special Role of Engineering Science in the New Cultural Movement, Science and Society, 2019, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 9-11. [in Chinese]
  • Baichun Zhang, and Marco Ceccarelli (eds.). Explorations in the History and Heritage of Machines and Mechanism. Springer, 2019.
  • Chinese Technology: From Invention to Imitation and Further to Innovation, Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 22-31. [in Chinese]
  • The Early Modernization of Technology in China (1860s-1930s), Acta Historica Leopoldina, Number 69, Druck-Zuck GmbH Halle, 2018, pp. 149-158.
  • The Influence of the USSR on Chinese Engineering Education: Taking Beijing College of Aeronautics as an Example, The 2018 International Conference on Engineering Technologies and Computer Science, 2018, pp. 14-18. DOI:10.1109/EnT.2018.00009 (with Long Jiang)
  • “Springtime of Science”: Deep Meaning and Farsight Significance, Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2018, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 432-435. [in Chinese]
  • Scientific Cognition of Traditional Crafts and Arts, Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2018, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 1314-1318. [in Chines]
  • The Europeanization of Astronomical Instruments in the Observatory of Peking in the Qing Dynasty, in: Institute for the History of Natural Sciences (eds.) Sixty Years of Research on the History of Science and Technology: Selected Articles written by the IHNS Staff, vol. 4. Beijing: China Science and Technology Press, 2018. Pp. 48-64. [in Chinese]
  • Sixty Years of Development of the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences: 1957-2016, Studies in the History of Natural Sciences, 2017, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 143-151. [in Chinese]
  • Scientific Revolutions, Technological Revolutions and the Modernization of China. Jinan: Shangdong Education Press, 2017. (with Miao Tian, and Jiuchun Zhang) [in Chinese]
  • Protection of the Milestones of Industry and Technology from the Technological Perspective, Journal of Engineering Studies, 2017, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 417-419. [in Chinese]
  • Transmission, Cooperation and Competition in Device Construction between China and Europe in 16th -18th Centuries, Nova Acta Leopoldina, NF Nr.414, Halle (Saale), 2017, pp. 99-111.
  • Analysis and Annotation of Leibniz’s Questions and Grimaldi’s Answers, in: Wenchao Li (eds). ‘Für unser Glück oder das Glück anderer’: Vortr？ge des X. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses, George Olms Verlag, 2016. Pp. 449-487. (with Jinfang Han)
  • The Professionalization of Research on the History of Science in China and the Influence of Eurocentrism on Chinese Historians of Science, in: A. Blum, K. Gavroglu, C. Joas, J. Renn (eds.). Shifting Paradigms: Thomas S. Kuhn and the History of Science, Proceedings 8, Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge, 2016. Pp. 329-335.
  • Mechanical Engineer Ding Gongchen, in: Carlos Lopez-Cajun, Marco Ceccarelli (eds.). Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms, Proceedings of the Fifth IFToMM Symposium on the History of Machines and Mechanisms, Springer, 2016. Pp. 165-170. (with Yexin Liu)
  • Johannes Schreck und Wang Zheng, die Uebertrag westlicher mechanischer Kenntnisse nach China, in: Claudia von Collani, Erich Zettl. Johannes Schreck-Terrentius SJ, Wissenschaftler und China-Missionar (1576-1630), Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. Pp. 183-198 (with Tian Miao)
  • The Relationship between Shoichi Sakata and Chinese Scientists as well as Mao Zedong, Studies in the History of Natural Sciences, 2015, vol. 34, no. 1, pp.39-60. (with Liu Jinyan, and Wu Yueliang) [in Chinese]
  • Some Properties of ENGINEERING as Exemplified by the Construction of Instruments for the Beijing Observatory, Journal of Engineering Studies, 2014, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 434-440. (with Zhang Jiuchun) [in Chinese]
  • The Transmission of European Mechanical Knowledge into 17th-Century China, in: Ion Visa, The 11th IFToMM International Symposium on Science of Mechanisms and Machines, Springer, 2013, pp.25-30. (with Miao Tian)

Participation in grants:

  • National Social Foundation of China grant: “The History of Science and Technology in China” (2021-2025), project head
  • Chinesisch-Deutsches Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftfoerderung grant: “Transfer of Scientific and Technical Knowledge between Europe and China during the Early Modern Period” (2021-2023), one of two project Co-heads
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences grant: “Scientific Revolutions, Technological Revolutions and the Modernization of Nations” (2011-2015), Chief Scientist
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) grant: “Making Technology Appropriate: Technology Transfer Between Germany and China” (2011-2014), one of two project Co-heads
  • Max Planck Society and Chinese Academy of Science joint-grant: “The Development of Chinese Mechanical Knowledge and Its Interaction with Other Cultural Traditions” (2001-2006), Head of the Partner Group
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences grant and National Natural Science Foundation of China grant: “Research on the Development of Science and Technology in Modern China” (2001-2003), Chief Scientist
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences grant: “Research on Traditional Chinese Technology” (1996-2000), sub-project head
  • German Volkswagen Foundation grant: “the History of Astronomical Instruments” (Technische Universitaet Berlin, 1996-1998)

Contact information:

55 Zhong-guan-cun East Road, Beijing, 100190, P.R. China

+86 10 57552512

Email: zhang-office@ihns.ac.cn

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