Yejing Ge

Postdoctoral fellow(since July 2024)

Yejing Ge葛業靜is a historian of science. She is now a postdoctoral fellow at theDepartment of History of Science, Technology and Medicine,Peking University, China.She received her doctorate from the University of Science and Technology of China. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the transmission of western astro-medicine in China from the 9th to the 17th centuries.

She initiated and organized a transnational reading group (科學史國際前沿學術論文研讀會, 2023-2024). The group met monthly to discuss classic or new articles from HPS journals. She is a member of the History of Science Society (HSS) and the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). In 2022, she received the Sponsor-a-Scholar program from the History of Science Society.

E-mail:geyejing@pku.edu.cn; yehchingko@163.com

Research Interests:

•history of astral sciences in medieval and early modern China

•history of science in 20th-century China

•the exchange of scientific materials and data between China and the West during World War II and the Cold War

Selected Publications:

•history of astral sciences in medieval and early modern China

first author, with Weixing Niu, (2024).Jesuit Mathematical Sciences in China – The Introduction and Transformation of European Astro-medicine During the Ming and Qing Dynasties.The World Religious Cultures世界宗教文化(5), 138–145.

co-first author, with Weixing Niu, et. al.,(2023). Calculating and Mapping the Disposition of Future Heavens: Ferdinand Verbiest’s Weather Forecasting and Its Termination During the Qing Court (1669–1680).Physics in Perspective25(3), 137–168.

•history of science in 20th century China

first author, withWeimin Xiong, (2024). The Launch of a Political Satellite: Constructing the Ming Tombs Reservoir and “Mass Engineering” in Communist China.Technology and Culture65(1), 143-175.

first author, withFei Xu, (2022).A historical reflection on the globalization process of natural science research in modern China.Science & Technology Review科技導報40(10), 144-152.