Ruth Rogaski

Current Position: Associate professor , Department of History, Vanderbilt University, 2004 to present
Education:
Yale University, Department of History, 1990-1996 Ph.D., history, May 1996
Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 1992-1994Department of History visiting Fulbright-Hays fellow
Yale University, Program in East Asian Studies, 1988- 1990 M.A., East Asian Studies, May 1990
Beijing University, Beijing, China, 1984 Program in Advanced Mandarin Chinese
University of Pennsylvania, 1980-1984B.A. with honors, Oriental Studies, May 1984
Foreign languages: Modern Mandarin Chinese, Classical Chinese, Japanese, German
TEL&Email: TEL: 1-609- 279-1595
rogaski@princeton.edu
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previous employment experience:
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Princeton University, Fall 1996 to 2004
Representative, Tokyo Sogo Bank, New York Office, 1986-1988
English Instructor, Beijing Medical University, 1984-1986
Academic Awards and Fellowships:
*The National Science Foundation Science and Technology Studies Scholar Award, 1999-2001
*Princeton University 250th Anniversary Grant for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, 1997
*Yale University Prize Fellow in East Asian Studies, 1994-95
*U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Program, Dissertation Fellowship, 1992-93

*American Council of Learned Societies, Committee for Scholarly Communication with China Dissertation
_ Research Grant, 1992-94
Teaching :
Courses taught at Princeton:
*HIS 325: China Since the Opium War;
*HIS 208: East Asia Since 1800;
*HIS 441 : Engendering Modern China;
*HIS 400 : Junior Seminar, Gender and "The Orient";
*WOM/HIS 485 :The History of Reproduction: Global Perspectives;
*HIS 529 : Readings in Modern Chinese History

Work in Progress:

*researching second book, "Knowing Manchuria: The Role of the Biological Sciences in the Formation of Asian Empires, 1712-1952"

*participating in 3-year long Academia Sinica research project on hygiene in pre-modern and modern China. Topics: The Japanese Conceptualization of Manchuria as Land of the Plague; The Hypodermic Needle and Perceptions of Japanese Medicine in Manchuria.

Bibliograph:
Presentations and Conferences Articles Books Reviews and Translations

Presentations and Conferences (top)
1.

"Mechanics of Circulation: Joseph Needham and the Jesuit Transmission of Chinese Exercises for Health," paper presented at the American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 2002.

2.

"Sober Science: Temperance and Hygiene in the Late Qing," paper presented at Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, March 25, 2001.
3.

organized national meeting on traditional Chinese medical history entitled "Chinese Healing Traditions: Texts, Translations, and Teaching," Princeton University, May 5-7, 2000.

4.

"Fists of Fury? or The Jingwuhui Before Bruce Lee," paper presented in the panel "Creating, Selling, and Remembering Martial Arts in Modern China," Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, March 9th, 2000.

5.

"Germs and Reach of the Modern State, Tianjin 1949-1952" paper presented at the International Symposium on Twentieth-century China and the World, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, January 2000.

6.

"Efficacy and Accuracy in Ming Technical Illustrations: Luo Hongxian's Geographies of the Earth and the Body," Ninth International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, Singapore, August 1999.

7.

"Knowing Manchuria: Science and the Case of Germ Warfare in the Korean War, 1952-53." Paper presented in the panel organized by author, "Frontiers of Knowledge: The Role of Science and Technology in Defining China's Cultural and Political Boundaries." Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 1998.

8.

"Huo Yuanjia as the Great Yellow Hope of China." Paper presented in the panel "Imperialism and Crises of Masculinity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century East Asia." American Historical Association Annual Conference, Seattle, January 1998.

9.

"Imperial Science and the Politics of Proof: The Case of Germ Warfare in the Korean Conflict." Paper presented at the International Symposium of the Historical Society for Twentieth Century China, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, October 2, 1997.

10.

"Chinese Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century." Invited participant for the "Changing Chinese Nationalism" roundtable series at New York University, February 20, 1997.

11.

"The Value of Girls: China's Orphanage Problems in Historical Perspective." Invited lecture given for the Women's Studies lecture series at the University of Delaware, November 19, 1996.

12.

"The Limits of Hygienic Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Tianjin." Paper presented at the conference "Beyond Shanghai," University of California at San Diego, September 1996.

13.

"The Politics of Emptiness: Deficiency Anxiety, Imperialism, and the Body in Post-Opium War China." Invited lecture delivered at the Center for East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, September 1995.
Articles(top)
1.

"Nature, Annihilation, and Modernity: China's Korean War Germ Warfare Experience Revisited," Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 61 No. 2 (May 2002).
2.

"Germs and the Reach of the Modern State, Tianjin 1949-1952," in Proceedings of the International Symposium on China and the World in the Twentieth Century,"Taipei: The Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, 2001.
3.

"Hygienic Modernity in Tianjin," in Joseph Esherick, ed., Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950, University of Hawaii Press, 2000.

4.

translation and introduction to the poetry of Wu Shan, in Kang-i Sun Chang and Haun Saussy, ed., Women Writers of Traditional China : an Anthology of Poetry and Criticism, Stanford University Press, 1999.

5.

"Weisheng yu xiandai xing" (Hygiene and Modernity), Chengshi shi yanjiu (Research in Urban History), (PRC) No. 15-16 (Fall 1998) 150-179.

6.

"Beyond Benevolence: A Confucian Women's Shelter in Treaty-Port China," Journal of Women's History, Vol. 8 No. 4 (Winter 1997): 54-90.
Books(top)
1.

Hygienic Modernity: Preserving Health and Preventing Disease in Treaty-Port China (forthcoming 2003, University of California Press)

Reviews and Translations(top)
1.

Co-translator with Li-ching Mair of the novel Life in Shanghai and Beijing: Memoirs of a Chinese Writer by Liang Xiaosheng. Beijing: Foreign Language Press, 1990.

2.

Review of Man-bun Kwan, The Salt Merchants of Tianjin in Pacific Affairs (forthcoming 2002)

3.

Review of Matt Summer, Sex, Law and Society in Late Imperial China in Comparative Studies in Society and History: An International Quarterly (forthcoming 2002)

4.

Review of Paul Unschuld, Medicine in China: Historical Artifacts and Images in East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (forthcoming 2002)

5.

Review of Frank Dikotter, Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects and Eugenics in China in Medical History, Vol 44, No. 4 (Oct. 2000), 559-561.
6.

Review of Francesca Bray, Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China in International Labor and Working Class History, No. 56 (Fall 1999) 123-125.