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Chengji Xing
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (May 2023-Sep 2025)
PhD
Sally Chengji Xing (PhD, Columbia University) is an associate professor of history and fellow of Nankai’s Hundred Young Leaders’ Program at Nankai University (Tianjin, China) and a visiting postdoctoral fellow of the Max Planck Institute of History of Science. She was previously Richard Hofstadter Fellow at Columbia University in the City of New York (2016-2021), visiting predoctoral fellow at MPIWG and fellow at the University of Göttingen in the project “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China”.
Xing studies the history of the China Foundation for the Promotion of Culture and Education from transnational and global perspectives. Her book manuscript (in progress), “‘Pacific Crossings’: The China Foundation and a Negotiated Translation of American Science to China, 1913-1949,” examines how and to what extent American intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the development of Chinese science.
Xing’s multi-archival historical research has been funded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Rockefeller Archive Center, the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine and by other graduate research fellowships at Columbia University. Her long-term research explores Sino-American intellectual history in transnational approaches, from early twentieth century up until the late 1960s.
Projects
Selected Publications
Xing Chengji 邢承吉 (2024). “Dang’an yu xushi: weirao Zhonghua jiaoyu wenhua jijin Dongshi hui de duoguo tansuo 档案与叙事: 围绕中华教育文化基金董事会的多国探索 [Archives and Narratives: a Multi-National Exploration Surrounding the China Foundation for the Promotion of Culture and Education].” Pengpai Xinwen, April 13, 2024. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_27004376.
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Xing, Chengji (2023). “Pacific Crossings: The China Foundation and the Negotiated Translation of American Science to China, 1913—1949.” PhD Thesis. New York, NY: Columbia University. https://doi.org/10.7916/pax4-tr49.
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Xing, Chengji (2022). “纽约晨边高地的今昔 [New York City’s Morningside Heights since 1968, Readers Magazine] May, 2022.” 读书杂志 [Dushu Magazine], no. 2022/05. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/V7mA8cljVDQd4pMWWUfUyg.
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Upcoming Events
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Chinese Columbianites and the China Foundation
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Teaching Applied Sciences or Research Pure Sciences?
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Nankai University
The Making of Epochal Events: Narrating Turning Points in Chinese History
Heidelberg University
Transnational Knowledge Transfers Between China, Europe, and the United States: Actors, Institutions, and Dynamics, 1924-1935
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
LRMG Group Talk Series, MPIWG
Boston Tsinghua TAB talk series, 2024 (THAA-Boston)
Nankai University