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Date(s)： 2023/09/01
Time： 14:00~16:00
Venue： Archives 3rd Conference Hall
Host： Prof. Sean Hsiang-lin LEI ( Research fellow and Director, IMH, AS )
Speaker：Prof. Victor Seow ( Associate Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University)
Organizer： 「科技與現代東亞的歷史共構」共同研究專題
abstract: What is the relationship between energy and power? In this talk, Victor Seow explores this and other related questions, drawing on his recently published book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (University of Chicago Press, 2022). This book is a study of the deep links between energy extraction and technocratic politics through the history of East Asia’s onetime largest coal mine—the Fushun colliery in southern Manchuria. In delving into the origins of fossil-fueled development in China and Japan, Carbon Technocracy unearths both the dominant role of the state in energy transitions toward coal and oil and the enduring reliance on human labor power in the carbon age.