Victor Seow | The Shock of ‘Inferior’ Inventions: The Charcoal-Powered Automobile in Transwar China

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Eurasian Empires will be joined by Professor Victor Seow (Harvard University), who will be workshopping a paper titled "The Shock of 'Inferior' Inventions: The Charcoal-Powered Automobile in Transwar China." The workshop will take place in the SHC Board Room or via Zoom.

Victor Seow is a historian of technology, science, and industry, focusing on China and Japan and on histories of energy and work. He is the author of Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (University of Chicago Press, 2022), which received prizes from several different fields, including the Association for Asian Studies’ John Whitney Hall Book Prize, the Chinese Historians in the United States’ Academic Excellence Award, and the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations’ Michael H. Hunt in International History. Victor is currently studying the relationship between science and work through a history of industrial psychology in China.