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Liang Yao
Life Science
Peking University
Beijing
Language: Chinese, English
Technology
Society
Culture
Industry
Business
National Identity
Space Program
Consumer Culture
Medical Technology
Globalization
Areas of Focus
- History of Science and Technology
- Science, Technology and Society
- Industrial and Business History
- Social and Cultural History
Academic Background & Achievements
- PhD: Georgia Institute of Technology
Publications
- Manned Space Program and Making of Chinese National Identity, Yao, Liang, 2011
- National Prestige and Human Spaceflight: A Chinese Perspective, Yao, Liang, 2012
- Nationalism on Their Own Terms: The National Products Movement and the Coca-Cola Protest in Shanghai, 1945-1949, Yao, Liang, 2017
- Early Mining Technologies and the Environmental Impact in California, 1850-1900, Yao, Liang, 2018
- Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China, Yao, Liang, 2021
- Remembering Summer in the City: Production and Consumption of Yanqishui in Twentieth-Century Shanghai, Yao, Liang, 2023
Awards
- 2021: Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Research General Project
- 2017: National Postdoctoral Management Committee International Exchange Program
