Assoc Prof
Seung-Joon LeeProfile page
Assoc Professor
History
Orcid identifier0000-0003-1868-3383
- Assoc ProfessorHistory
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I have been awarded FRC (Faculty Research Committee)
grant (R-110-000-067-112), with which I have embarked on a new research
project, 'Enemies at the Granaries: Environment and Wartime Food
Politics in China, 1910s-1950s.
The
goal of this research is to publish my second book and three more
research articles in a reputable publisher and journals. One of the
target journal article, 'Expertise marginalized: Quality Inspection and
the Grain Market in Republican China' has been submitted to a
peer-reviewed journal, Frontiers of History in China. I have also
invited to the annual conference of SHOT (Society for History of
Technology), 2014 and the International Conference of Food and Health,
University of Hong Kong (December, 2014). This research project
will not only contribute to the field of modern Chinese history but
will also resonate with the rising scholarly interest in the study of food history in the fields of environmental history, history of technology, and history medicine as well as public health to name a few. Recently, food has become a lens to examine various categories of history including distribution networks, consumers, health, bodies, race, and gender, using food as a lens to examine these categories. My first book, Gourmets in the Land of Famine: the Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2011), has been leading this new trend in
the field. Having explored the qualitative dimension of rice
consumption, my book illustrated the question of food supply and
consumption in nation building in modern China. The goal of my new
research project is to develop further this research trend by shifting
focus from the history of business and consumption to the history of
environment and technology. The FRC grant support is therefore quintessential to expedite this new project.
As 'food history' is a leading scholarly trend in many fields ofhistory,
my new research project has garnered acquisition editors's
interestsfrom academic publishers; one is Stanford University Press
through which myfirst book was published, and the other is Cambridge
University Press.
grant (R-110-000-067-112), with which I have embarked on a new research
project, 'Enemies at the Granaries: Environment and Wartime Food
Politics in China, 1910s-1950s.
The
goal of this research is to publish my second book and three more
research articles in a reputable publisher and journals. One of the
target journal article, 'Expertise marginalized: Quality Inspection and
the Grain Market in Republican China' has been submitted to a
peer-reviewed journal, Frontiers of History in China. I have also
invited to the annual conference of SHOT (Society for History of
Technology), 2014 and the International Conference of Food and Health,
University of Hong Kong (December, 2014). This research project
will not only contribute to the field of modern Chinese history but
will also resonate with the rising scholarly interest in the study of food history in the fields of environmental history, history of technology, and history medicine as well as public health to name a few. Recently, food has become a lens to examine various categories of history including distribution networks, consumers, health, bodies, race, and gender, using food as a lens to examine these categories. My first book, Gourmets in the Land of Famine: the Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2011), has been leading this new trend in
the field. Having explored the qualitative dimension of rice
consumption, my book illustrated the question of food supply and
consumption in nation building in modern China. The goal of my new
research project is to develop further this research trend by shifting
focus from the history of business and consumption to the history of
environment and technology. The FRC grant support is therefore quintessential to expedite this new project.
As 'food history' is a leading scholarly trend in many fields ofhistory,
my new research project has garnered acquisition editors's
interestsfrom academic publishers; one is Stanford University Press
through which myfirst book was published, and the other is Cambridge
University Press.