Sijie Ren
Boya Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Peking University;
Honorary Research Associate, School of Humanities, University of Bristol.
PhD in History, University of Bristol.
Joined the Department in July 2025.
Research Interests
History of science and medicine in modern China
Publications
Ren, Sijie. “The Afterlife of a Protein: Synthetic Insulin and the Politics of Scientific Memory in China.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, forthcoming.
Ren, Sijie. Review of The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun. Europe-Asia Studies, forthcoming.
Presentations
“Global Knowledge Transfer in Personnel Files: The Cases of C. K. Tseng and Zhang Xi at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.” Rivers, Lakes, and Seas: New Imaginaries in Water History Workshop, Ocean University of China, June 2026.
“Emotions and Maoist Science.” Oxford International History of East Asia Seminar, University of Oxford, November 2025.
“Zheng qi (争气): The Making of a Revolutionary Emotion.” BACS Annual Conference, Leicester, September 2025.
“Needle and Revolution: The Promotion of Acupuncture Anaesthesia in Maoist China.” AAS-in-Asia Conference, Kathmandu, June 2025.
“Grand Corps Combat: A Maoist Method of Scientific Research.” BACS Annual Joint Conference, Preston, June 2024.
Visiting Positions and Training
Oct. 2022, Visiting PhD Student, City University of Hong Kong
Nov. 2022–Feb. 2023, Visiting PhD Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2023, Graduate course "Sources and Methods in the History of the People's Republic of China," Yale University
Jan.–Jul. 2014, Exchange Student, Chinese Culture University, Taipei
Research Projects
Team member, National Social Science Fund of China Youth Project, “Archival Collection and Study of Modern China’s Meteorological Stations” (2023– )
Awards
2025, Best Doctoral Thesis Prize, British Association for Chinese Studies
2023, Research Culture Fund, Faculty of Arts, University of Bristol
2022, Universities’ China Committee in London Research Grant
2021–2023, Conference and Research Funding, Faculty of Arts, University of Bristol (four awards)
Professional Memberships
Postgraduate Member, Royal Historical Society;
Member, British Association for Chinese Studies
Contact
Email: sijieren@pku.edu.cn
PKU Mentor: Zhang Li
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