#  Fairbank Center: Layer Upon Layer: Experience, Ecology, Engineering, Heritage, And (Most Of All) History In The Making Of China’s Agricultural Terraces 

 



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 **April 12, 2017** 

 12:00PM - 02:00PM EDT 

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 **CGIS Knafel K262, 1737 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

**Speaker: Sigrid Schmalzer,** University of Massachusetts Amherst

Professor Schmalzer’s research focuses on social, cultural, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China. Her first book, *The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China*, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008 and won the Sharlin Memorial Award from the Social Science History Association. Her second book, *Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China*, was released by University of Chicago Press in 2016 (a [podcast interview ](http://newbooksnetwork.com/sigrid-schmalzer-red-revolution-green-revolution-scientific-farming-in-socialist-china-university-of-chicago-press-2016/)with Schmalzer about the book is available from the New Books Network). She is also the co-editor of a volume intended for the undergraduate classroom titled [*Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750-Present*](http://visualizingmodernchina.org/). Her shorter writings have been published in numerous edited volumes and scholarly journals, including *Isis*, *Journal of American-East Asian Relations*, *Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences*, *East Asian History*, and *Geographical Review*. She was also the lead organizer for a conference held at UMass 11-13 April 2014, “Science for the People: The 1970s and Today,” which brought together students, scholars in Science and Technology Studies, and former members of the 1970s-1980s group Science for the People and is archived here: [http://science-for-the-people.org](http://science-for-the-people.org/). Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Fulbright, the Social Science Research Council, the American Philosophical Society, and the D. Kim Foundation.

*Lunch will be provided*

*[](http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-seminar-sigrid-schmalzer/)*

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