Visiting Scholar Dr. Zhanhong You in Residence
Dr. Zhanhong You is an associate research fellow (equivalent to associate professor) in the Institute for History of Science and Technology & Ancient Texts at Tsinghua University. This semester he will be a visiting scholar in our Department. He received his Natural Science Doctor of History of Science and Technology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006 and spent a year as a visiting scholar at Technische Universität Berlin (2002-2003). He devoted himself to the First World War early in his career and wrote items on thirty main campaigns and six famous generals for the Chinese Military Encyclopedia, edited by the Chinese Military Academy. Afterwards he transferred his interest to the ancient and modern history of military technology in China. Presently his research focuses on the impulse of innovations in military science and technology to the development of economy and society, and the positive contribution of the Pugwash Movement (an international society of scientists against weapons of mass destruction and armed conflicts) to arms control, nuclear disarmament and world security during the Cold War. During his time at K-State he is investigating how American presidents’ science advisors (such as Jerome Wiesner and George Kistiakowsky) who attended the Pugwash conferences and meetings during the Cold War influenced the policy of arms control and nuclear disarmament.
Dr. You's Publications
"Scientists and International Political Affairs: On the Early Experience of the Pugwash Movement and its Significance," China Doctor Dissertation Full-Text Database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) (July 2006)
Edited by Zhang Chunhui, You Zhanhong, Wu Zongze and Liu Yuanliang, The History of Ancient Mechanical Engineering Invention in China , second edition (Tsinghua University Press, August 2004)
"The First World War" (edited by Yang Liwen and You Zhanhong) and 30 Main Battles and 6 Generals during the First World War (37 total Articles), in The Chinese Military Encyclopedia (Military Science Press, 1995)
You Zhanhong and Liu Dun, "Russell-Einstein Manifesto and the Pugwash Movement," in Einstein and Science and Culture in Germany, edited Fang Zaiqing (Peking University Press, June 2006), 101-125
"A Comparative Study of the Impact of German Military Technology on China between 1880's and 1930's," History of Science in the Multiculture: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, edited by Jiang Xiaoyuan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, July 2005), 217-222
"A Study of Regulations and Precedents on Weapons and Military Equipment," in Chinese Handicraft Regulations: Theory and Application, edited by Christine Moll-Murata, Song Jianze and Hans Ulrich Vogel (Iudicum Verlag Gmbh München, Germany, 2005), 307-324
Edited by You Zhanhong and Liu Dun, "A Sociological Interpretation of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto," Science, Vol. 57, No. 5 (October 2005), 24-27
Edited by You Zhanhong and Liu Dun, "On the Early Experience of the Pugwash Movement and its Significance," Studies in the History of Natural Sciences, Vol. 24, No. 4 (December 2005), 345-363
This semester Dr. You can be reached at:
204 Eisenhower Hall
E-Mail: youzhh@ksu.edu
Voice: (785) 532-0368