Sigrid Schmalzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3757815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sigrid Schmalzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sigrid |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmalzer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMALZER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Prometheus and the Fishpond: A Historical Account of Agricultural Systems and Eco-Political Power in the People’s Republic of China
the village of Digang in Huzhou, China, hosted a symposium titled 'The Traditional Culture of Mulberry-Bordered Fishponds and the Development of Ecological Civilisation'.It was meant to celebrate the recent selection of this 'excellent man-made ecological system' as a model of Nationally Important Agricultural Heritage ().The choice was well made: few examples so beautifully demonstrate the capacity of traditional agricultural practices to achiev…
The Global Comrades of Mr. Democracy and Mr. Science: Placing May Fourth in a Transnational History of Science Activism
The May Fourth movement is widely recognized as a watershed within Chinese cultural and political history, but it was also a significant local episode within a global history of science activism. Quaintly idiosyncratic as Chen Duxiu’s “two gentlemen,” Mr. Democracy and Mr. Science, may appear, they have also animated (in only somewhat less personified form) a transnational “conversation” very much alive today. Focusing on neglected Marxist partic…
Beyond Bias: Critical Analysis and Layered Reading of Mao-Era Sources
Scholars of Mao-era history adopt a wide range of approaches to the selection and treatment of source material. Some scholars regard published sources as propaganda, and therefore as biased and unreliable. For many, archival sources are the gold standard; others question the reliability even of the archive and favor materials that escaped the filtering fingers of the state to be found in flea markets or garbage piles. Avoiding the false choice of…
Layer upon Layer: Mao-Era History and the Construction of China’s Agricultural Heritage
Chinese scientists and scholars are actively engaged in a transnational movement to preserve agricultural heritage. The author places this current phenomenon in historical context to explore the changing epistemological assumptions undergirding the agricultural heritage concept. She shows that the discourse on agricultural heritage in China today quietly draws on Mao-era projects; however, the earlier focus on peasant experience has given way to …
Look from Afar: Fragmented Authority in China and the United States
Previous articleNext article FreeSpecial Section: Second LookLook from Afar: Fragmented Authority in China and the United StatesSigrid SchmalzerSigrid SchmalzerUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreTwo longtime employees of the Natural History Museum glumly co…
Dui yu lishi, kexuejia you hua shuo: 20 Shiji Zhongguo kexuejie de ren yu shi 对于历史,科学家有话说:20世纪中国科学界的人与事 [ Scientists Have Something to Say about History: The People and Issues of Twentieth-Century Chi…
People in our profession frequently need to explain why we think historians have something to say about science. In this rich collection of oral histories, historian Xiong Weimin seeks to demonstra
Roundtable: New Narratives of the Green Revolution
Prakash Kumar, Timothy Lorek, Tore C. Olsson, Nicole Sackley, Sigrid Schmalzer, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Roundtable: New Narratives of the Green Revolution, Agricultural History, Vol. 91, No. 3 (Summer 2017), pp. 397-422
Teaching the History of Radical Science with Materials on Science for the People (1969-1989)
The author relates her experience teaching an undergraduate seminar on the 1970s-1980s movement Science for the People (SftP). She taught the seminar in conjunction with a three-day conference that brought together students, scholars in science and technology studies, and former SftP members. The seminar required students to delve into primary sources produced by and about SftP. By analyzing these materials and comparing SftP activities with othe…
Green-revolution epistemologies in China and India: Technocracy and revolution in the production of scientific knowledge and peasant identity
This paper juxtaposes the epistemological challenges raised by new agricultural technologies in India and China during the mid- to late twentieth century. In both places, the state actively sought to adopt the ‘improved’ seeds and chemical inputs of what USAID triumphantly called the ‘green revolution’; however, in neither country did this imply an unproblematic acceptance of the technocratic assumptions that undergirded the US programme. India a…
Youth and the “Great Revolutionary Movement” of Scientific Experiment in 1960s–1970s Rural China
Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China
Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China
This is a subtle book. Its contribution lies almost as much in what it does not do as in what it does. Without fanfare or polemic, Grace Yen Shen breaks from the common assumption that studies of s
Self-Reliant Science
This chapter traces the emergence of a set of mutually reinforcing priorities in Cold War-era Chinese science: application, native techniques, mass mobilization, and most importantly, self-reliance. These priorities had immense ideological significance for Maoism and nationalism, and carried practical weight for China as a developing country. Moreover, China's relative isolation during certain periods of the Cold War intensified the emphasis on s…
Visualizing modern China: Image, history, and memory, 1750-present
Chapter. 8. The. Myth. about. Chinese. Leftist. Cinema. Zhiwei. Xiao. A film's \nmeaning is often defined less by its supposed “intrinsic” qualities than by the \ncircumstance under which it is viewed. Totake anexample from American film: \nfromthe
Insect Control in Socialist China and the Corporate United States: The Act of Comparison, the Tendency to Forget, and the Construction of Difference in 1970s U.S.–Chinese Scientific Exchange
In 1975, a delegation of U.S. entomologists traveled to socialist China to observe Chinese insect control science. Their overwhelmingly positive reports highlighted in relief the pernicious effects of pesticide corporations on U.S. agriculture; some entomologists hoped this would goad the United States to catch up to China in environmentally sensible insect control practices. Of course, insect control in socialist China carried its own political …
Tong LAM. A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949
On a recent trip to China, I confronted a familiar form of dissuasion from some Chinese officials and experts: I should not interview peasants, I was told, because they cannot be relied upon to provide accurate information. Instead, I should interview the officials and experts themselves; they were free to tell me everything, since there was nothing “political” about my subject. I nonetheless later found myself listening to the grievances of a di…
Speaking about China, Learning from China: Amateur China Experts in 1970s America
Realizing that soon the time will have passed when a twoor threeweek trip to the 'People's Republic' qualifies one as a 'China expert,' I want to seize the opportunity to join the ranks before they close.l With this droll confession, an American sociologist of science in the spring of 1981 began a short article in an academic journal. Speaking about China to the American public, he realized, was a privilege of those who had been there, not of pro…
The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China
On the Appropriate Use of Rose-Colored Glasses: Reflections on Science in Socialist China
In the 1970s and early 1980s, many Westerners wrote enthusiastically about science as practiced in socialist China. They applauded the mobilization of broad sectors of the population for science that truly "served the people." By the mid-1980s, revelations about the many horrors of the Cultural Revolution worked to discredit these early, optimistic accounts. At the same time, the post-Mao privileging of economic development over social revolution…
Seven Labor Created Humanity: Cultural Revolution Science on Its Own Terms
Breeding a Better China: Pigs, Practices, and Place in a Chinese County, 1929-1937
From 1929 to 1937, Chinese reformers in the Mass Education Movement attempted to transform pigs and pig breeding in Dingxian, Hebei, through the importation of an American breed of pig and its hybridization with local pigs. This episode provides a case study for the investigation of the roles played in scientific work by local Chinese materials and practices on one hand and Western scientific principles and methods on the other. Reformers were co…
Roundtable: New Narratives of the Green Revolution
Prakash Kumar, Timothy Lorek, Tore C. Olsson, Nicole Sackley, Sigrid Schmalzer, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Roundtable: New Narratives of the Green Revolution, Agricultural History, Vol. 91, No. 3 (Summer 2017), pp. 397-422
Breeding a Better China: Pigs, Practices, and Place in a Chinese County, 1929-1937
From 1929 to 1937, Chinese reformers in the Mass Education Movement attempted to transform pigs and pig breeding in Dingxian, Hebei, through the importation of an American breed of pig and its hybridization with local pigs. This episode provides a case study for the investigation of the roles played in scientific work by local Chinese materials and practices on one hand and Western scientific principles and methods on the other. Reformers were co…
Speaking about China, Learning from China: Amateur China Experts in 1970s America
Realizing that soon the time will have passed when a twoor threeweek trip to the 'People's Republic' qualifies one as a 'China expert,' I want to seize the opportunity to join the ranks before they close.l With this droll confession, an American sociologist of science in the spring of 1981 began a short article in an academic journal. Speaking about China to the American public, he realized, was a privilege of those who had been there, not of pro…
Insect Control in Socialist China and the Corporate United States: The Act of Comparison, the Tendency to Forget, and the Construction of Difference in 1970s U.S.–Chinese Scientific Exchange
In 1975, a delegation of U.S. entomologists traveled to socialist China to observe Chinese insect control science. Their overwhelmingly positive reports highlighted in relief the pernicious effects of pesticide corporations on U.S. agriculture; some entomologists hoped this would goad the United States to catch up to China in environmentally sensible insect control practices. Of course, insect control in socialist China carried its own political …
On the Appropriate Use of Rose-Colored Glasses: Reflections on Science in Socialist China
In the 1970s and early 1980s, many Westerners wrote enthusiastically about science as practiced in socialist China. They applauded the mobilization of broad sectors of the population for science that truly "served the people." By the mid-1980s, revelations about the many horrors of the Cultural Revolution worked to discredit these early, optimistic accounts. At the same time, the post-Mao privileging of economic development over social revolution…
Breeding a Better China: Pigs, Practices, and Place in a Chinese County, 1929-1937
From 1929 to 1937, Chinese reformers in the Mass Education Movement attempted to transform pigs and pig breeding in Dingxian, Hebei, through the importation of an American breed of pig and its hybridization with local pigs. This episode provides a case study for the investigation of the roles played in scientific work by local Chinese materials and practices on one hand and Western scientific principles and methods on the other. Reformers were co…
Seven Labor Created Humanity: Cultural Revolution Science on Its Own Terms
On the Appropriate Use of Rose-Colored Glasses: Reflections on Science in Socialist China
In the 1970s and early 1980s, many Westerners wrote enthusiastically about science as practiced in socialist China. They applauded the mobilization of broad sectors of the population for science that truly "served the people." By the mid-1980s, revelations about the many horrors of the Cultural Revolution worked to discredit these early, optimistic accounts. At the same time, the post-Mao privileging of economic development over social revolution…
The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China
Speaking about China, Learning from China: Amateur China Experts in 1970s America
Realizing that soon the time will have passed when a twoor threeweek trip to the 'People's Republic' qualifies one as a 'China expert,' I want to seize the opportunity to join the ranks before they close.l With this droll confession, an American sociologist of science in the spring of 1981 began a short article in an academic journal. Speaking about China to the American public, he realized, was a privilege of those who had been there, not of pro…
Tong LAM. A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900-1949
On a recent trip to China, I confronted a familiar form of dissuasion from some Chinese officials and experts: I should not interview peasants, I was told, because they cannot be relied upon to provide accurate information. Instead, I should interview the officials and experts themselves; they were free to tell me everything, since there was nothing “political” about my subject. I nonetheless later found myself listening to the grievances of a di…
Insect Control in Socialist China and the Corporate United States: The Act of Comparison, the Tendency to Forget, and the Construction of Difference in 1970s U.S.–Chinese Scientific Exchange
In 1975, a delegation of U.S. entomologists traveled to socialist China to observe Chinese insect control science. Their overwhelmingly positive reports highlighted in relief the pernicious effects of pesticide corporations on U.S. agriculture; some entomologists hoped this would goad the United States to catch up to China in environmentally sensible insect control practices. Of course, insect control in socialist China carried its own political …
Self-Reliant Science
This chapter traces the emergence of a set of mutually reinforcing priorities in Cold War-era Chinese science: application, native techniques, mass mobilization, and most importantly, self-reliance. These priorities had immense ideological significance for Maoism and nationalism, and carried practical weight for China as a developing country. Moreover, China's relative isolation during certain periods of the Cold War intensified the emphasis on s…
Visualizing modern China: Image, history, and memory, 1750-present
Chapter. 8. The. Myth. about. Chinese. Leftist. Cinema. Zhiwei. Xiao. A film's \nmeaning is often defined less by its supposed “intrinsic” qualities than by the \ncircumstance under which it is viewed. Totake anexample from American film: \nfromthe
Youth and the “Great Revolutionary Movement” of Scientific Experiment in 1960s–1970s Rural China
Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China
Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China
This is a subtle book. Its contribution lies almost as much in what it does not do as in what it does. Without fanfare or polemic, Grace Yen Shen breaks from the common assumption that studies of s
Green-revolution epistemologies in China and India: Technocracy and revolution in the production of scientific knowledge and peasant identity
This paper juxtaposes the epistemological challenges raised by new agricultural technologies in India and China during the mid- to late twentieth century. In both places, the state actively sought to adopt the ‘improved’ seeds and chemical inputs of what USAID triumphantly called the ‘green revolution’; however, in neither country did this imply an unproblematic acceptance of the technocratic assumptions that undergirded the US programme. India a…
Roundtable: New Narratives of the Green Revolution
Prakash Kumar, Timothy Lorek, Tore C. Olsson, Nicole Sackley, Sigrid Schmalzer, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Roundtable: New Narratives of the Green Revolution, Agricultural History, Vol. 91, No. 3 (Summer 2017), pp. 397-422
Teaching the History of Radical Science with Materials on Science for the People (1969-1989)
The author relates her experience teaching an undergraduate seminar on the 1970s-1980s movement Science for the People (SftP). She taught the seminar in conjunction with a three-day conference that brought together students, scholars in science and technology studies, and former SftP members. The seminar required students to delve into primary sources produced by and about SftP. By analyzing these materials and comparing SftP activities with othe…
Dui yu lishi, kexuejia you hua shuo: 20 Shiji Zhongguo kexuejie de ren yu shi 对于历史,科学家有话说:20世纪中国科学界的人与事 [ Scientists Have Something to Say about History: The People and Issues of Twentieth-Century Chi…
People in our profession frequently need to explain why we think historians have something to say about science. In this rich collection of oral histories, historian Xiong Weimin seeks to demonstra
Layer upon Layer: Mao-Era History and the Construction of China’s Agricultural Heritage
Chinese scientists and scholars are actively engaged in a transnational movement to preserve agricultural heritage. The author places this current phenomenon in historical context to explore the changing epistemological assumptions undergirding the agricultural heritage concept. She shows that the discourse on agricultural heritage in China today quietly draws on Mao-era projects; however, the earlier focus on peasant experience has given way to …
Look from Afar: Fragmented Authority in China and the United States
Previous articleNext article FreeSpecial Section: Second LookLook from Afar: Fragmented Authority in China and the United StatesSigrid SchmalzerSigrid SchmalzerUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreTwo longtime employees of the Natural History Museum glumly co…
The Global Comrades of Mr. Democracy and Mr. Science: Placing May Fourth in a Transnational History of Science Activism
The May Fourth movement is widely recognized as a watershed within Chinese cultural and political history, but it was also a significant local episode within a global history of science activism. Quaintly idiosyncratic as Chen Duxiu’s “two gentlemen,” Mr. Democracy and Mr. Science, may appear, they have also animated (in only somewhat less personified form) a transnational “conversation” very much alive today. Focusing on neglected Marxist partic…
Beyond Bias: Critical Analysis and Layered Reading of Mao-Era Sources
Scholars of Mao-era history adopt a wide range of approaches to the selection and treatment of source material. Some scholars regard published sources as propaganda, and therefore as biased and unreliable. For many, archival sources are the gold standard; others question the reliability even of the archive and favor materials that escaped the filtering fingers of the state to be found in flea markets or garbage piles. Avoiding the false choice of…
Prometheus and the Fishpond: A Historical Account of Agricultural Systems and Eco-Political Power in the People’s Republic of China
the village of Digang in Huzhou, China, hosted a symposium titled 'The Traditional Culture of Mulberry-Bordered Fishponds and the Development of Ecological Civilisation'.It was meant to celebrate the recent selection of this 'excellent man-made ecological system' as a model of Nationally Important Agricultural Heritage ().The choice was well made: few examples so beautifully demonstrate the capacity of traditional agricultural practices to achiev…
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