Kuang‐Chi Hung
Biographic Data
| ID | 5154774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kuang‐Chi Hung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kuang‐Chi |
| FAMILY NAME | Hung |
| SIGNATURE | HUNG K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3760-281X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Places and affects in the “perfect garden”
This paper examines the importance of places and affects in the formative years of Japanese botanist Miyabe Kingo (1860–1951) and the transformation of Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan, into a “Perfect Garden.” It begins by showing how the Meiji government and American advisors invoked the climatic similarities between Hokkaido and Northeastern America in the colonization of the island and the establishment of the Sapporo Agricultural Colle…
A tale of two genera; or, how plant specimens from Japan contributed to the greatest legend in American botany
This article investigates how the materiality of plant specimens influenced scientists’ practice, network-building, and the imagination of professional identity through Asa Gray’s encounter with a fragmented specimen. We highlight how the incomplete specimen prompted Gray to create the genus Shortia and mobilize his network of collectors to locate the plant in its natural habitat. We then turn to a parallel network emerging in Tokugawa Japan amon…
Living With Epidemic Plant Diseases
This article examines the entangled histories of biosecurity, colonial governance and plantation capitalism by examining the case of Taiwan's banana industry. By focusing on the impact of banana stem weevils and the more recent outbreak of Tropical Race 4 (TR4), it traces how biosecurity regimes emerged during Japanese colonial rule and evolved to sustain extractive plantation logics. Drawing on assemblage theory and the Plantationocene framework…
Carbon Technocracy
Mouth-Harp under Moon
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Volume 14, Number 2, June 2020
Ershi shiji houbanye Taiwan yanhuaxue pujizhishi de siweiyangshi 20世紀後半葉台灣演化學普及知識的思維樣式 [ The Thought Styles in Popular Evolutionary Knowledge in Taiwan in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century ]
Recent decades have witnessed a surge of interest among historians of science and STS scholars alike in attempting to clarify a term that they use so commonly in their analyses that they almost tak
Alien Science, Indigenous Thought and Foreign Religion
Beginning in 1877, the American zoologist, Edward S. Morse (1837–1925), initiated a series of lectures on Darwin and his theory at the Tokyo Imperial University. As a former student of Louis Agassi
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Alien Science, Indigenous Thought and Foreign Religion
Beginning in 1877, the American zoologist, Edward S. Morse (1837–1925), initiated a series of lectures on Darwin and his theory at the Tokyo Imperial University. As a former student of Louis Agassi
Ershi shiji houbanye Taiwan yanhuaxue pujizhishi de siweiyangshi 20世紀後半葉台灣演化學普及知識的思維樣式 [ The Thought Styles in Popular Evolutionary Knowledge in Taiwan in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century ]
Recent decades have witnessed a surge of interest among historians of science and STS scholars alike in attempting to clarify a term that they use so commonly in their analyses that they almost tak
Mouth-Harp under Moon
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Volume 14, Number 2, June 2020
Carbon Technocracy
Places and affects in the “perfect garden”
This paper examines the importance of places and affects in the formative years of Japanese botanist Miyabe Kingo (1860–1951) and the transformation of Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan, into a “Perfect Garden.” It begins by showing how the Meiji government and American advisors invoked the climatic similarities between Hokkaido and Northeastern America in the colonization of the island and the establishment of the Sapporo Agricultural Colle…
A tale of two genera; or, how plant specimens from Japan contributed to the greatest legend in American botany
This article investigates how the materiality of plant specimens influenced scientists’ practice, network-building, and the imagination of professional identity through Asa Gray’s encounter with a fragmented specimen. We highlight how the incomplete specimen prompted Gray to create the genus Shortia and mobilize his network of collectors to locate the plant in its natural habitat. We then turn to a parallel network emerging in Tokugawa Japan amon…
Living With Epidemic Plant Diseases
This article examines the entangled histories of biosecurity, colonial governance and plantation capitalism by examining the case of Taiwan's banana industry. By focusing on the impact of banana stem weevils and the more recent outbreak of Tropical Race 4 (TR4), it traces how biosecurity regimes emerged during Japanese colonial rule and evolved to sustain extractive plantation logics. Drawing on assemblage theory and the Plantationocene framework…
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