Expertise:
U.S.-China Policy, History of Science and Technology, Modern Science in the U.S. and China, U.S. Cold War Science Policy, U.S. Space and Nuclear Program Policy, U.S. History (recent), U.S. Science Policy, Immigrant Scientists and Engineers, Climate Change Science and Politics, Chinese Science Policy, 20th Century History of American Technology, Asian and Chinese Americans in Science and Technology, Race and Ethnic Politics, Race and Ethnicity, Foreign PolicyZuoyue Wang has research interests in modern science, technology, and politics in the United States, China, and transnational contexts. The author of In Sputnick’s Shadow (2008), he has published numerous articles on science and science policy topics. At Cal Poly Pomona, he teaches a variety of U.S. history courses including History of American Science and Technology, and Weapons of Mass Destruction. He regularly visits China and gives lectures on American history and history of science there. In 2019, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the most influential general scientific organization in the United States.
Recent Grants and Fellowships:
National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, “Chinese/American Scientists: Transnational Science during the Cold War and Beyond,” 2010-14
Selected Publications:
- Chinese American Scientists: A Transnational History (forthcoming)
- In Sputnick’s Shadow: The President’s Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America (Rutgers University Press, 2008)
- “ISSF Policy Series: Science under the Trump Administration in Historical Perspective, Part 1,” International Security Studies Forum, April 17, 2018
- with J. Phalky, “Planning for Science and Technology in China and India,” BJHS Journal 1, 83-113, 2016
Interviews:
- “A Corrida pela vida, Exame (Brazilian business magazine), June 2020
- “China Leads The Worldwide Race To Develop A COVID-19 Vaccine,” All Things Considered. National Public Radio, May 19, 2020
- “Theft of Farming Secrets Is Backdrop for U.S.-China Trade Deal,” Marketplace Morning Report, American Public Media, Jan. 15, 2020
- “Trump Has Taken Longer to Name a Science Adviser Than Any Modern President,” Washington Post, Oct. 16, 2018
- “From China to the U.S. and Back,” Inside Science, October 6, 2016 (U.S.-Chinese scientific exchange during the Nixon era)
- “Sputnik Moments: Science and Technology Policy from Eisenhower to Obama” (starting 36m:00s) and “Science Policy Roundtable,” Conference on “Ike Reconsidered,” jointly sponsored by Hunter College Roosevelt House-Eisenhower Foundation, New York, March 7, 2013
- 香港电台电视台，《华人移民史：金山客》第五集“二次世界大战与韩战年代”(其中有我介绍钱学森在美国被扣留的历史)，2012年5月25日拍摄，2012年9月15 日播放 (Radio Television Hong Kong, Roots Old and New: Stories of Chinese Immigrants–North America, part 5 “World War II and the Korean War,” broadcast on September 15, 2012). On camera interview on the experiences of the Chinese American aerodynamic scientist H. S. Tsien in the US during the McCarthy era (starting at 22m:30s).
Education:
B.S., Physics, Henan Normal University (Xinxiang, China)
M.S., History of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China)
Ph.D., History, UC Santa Barbara
Languages:
English and Chinese