Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica 中央研究院近代史研究所

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Zhu Marlon

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Associate research fellow

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My research interest, since the dissertation, has focused on commerce and STM (science, technology, and medicine) in treaty-port China and Hong Kong in the nineteenth century. Merchants, especially those of steam shipping and marine insurance interests, had exerted great influence on STM in the heterogeneous societies along the China coasts. In major port cities, Chambers of commerce and the commercial newspapers, the only media, had enhanced merchants to deal with the rising Sino and foreign states in new official institutions like the consular systems, Tsungli Yamen, the British Colonial Government of Hong Kong, and the Chinese Maritime Customs. Together with the improvement of means of communication such as regular steam liners and telegraph, there existed, I argue, an “inter-port discursive space,” for various ideas and practice, in which these merchants had been the initiatives and major players. By exploring the agency of this mercantile class (the “1%” in treaty-port China) advocating the Free Trade principle in the age of globalization, it might be possible to reshape the concerned historiographies.

Education

Ph.D. Binghamton University, State University of New York,2012
Master, Department of History, National Taiwan University, 2000
B.A., Department of History, National Taiwan University, 1996

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Resumé

中研院台史所博士後
紐約州立大學賓漢頓分校歷史系助教
中研院台史所助理，所助理(環境史研究群)
中研院台史所助理，計畫名稱：(國科會)「研製台灣歷史文化與自然資源地圖集」
高雄市立新莊高中歷史科代理教師(全職)

Academic honors

D. Kim Foundation 博士論文寫作獎學金，2010-2011

Research fields

History of Science and Technology, Environmental History, Nineteenth-cenyury Treaty Ports, GIS and Historical Studies

Research projects

Port-Town English Newspapers and the Inter-port Discursive Sphere in Nineteenth-century East Asia
Steam Navigation and the Energy Transition of East Asia in the Nineteenth Century(MOST，2019.08.01~2020.07.31)

Publications

Journal articles

Marlon Zhu, Dec. 2019, "A Global History of Reactionary Rhetoric: Reporting European 'Socialism' in Treaty-Port Shanghai in the Nineteenth Century," New History, Vol.30, No.4, pp.123-166. (in Chinese)Download
Marlon Zhu, 2016, "Diplomatic Intelligence and Interport-Journalism: The News of Japanese and Chinese Troop Steamers during the Formosa Incident of 1874," Bullitin of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Vol.93 (Sept. 2016), pp.1-39. (in Chinese)Download
Marlon Zhu, 2015, "Inter-port Engineering: A Survey of the Woosung Bar near Shanghai by Two Dutch Hydrographic Engineers from Japan in 1875," Bullitin of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Vol.90 (Dec. 2015), pp.55-93. (in Chinese)Download
Marlon Zhu, 2014, "Free Trade, Empire and Intelligence: Knowledge of Formosa in The Canton Register in the 1830s," Chinese Studies, Vol. 32, No.2, pp.49-82. (in Chinese)Download
朱瑪瓏，2004年7月，〈用GIS重新解讀日治時期兩套中比例尺地圖〉，《地圖：中華民國地圖學會會刊》，頁93-104。
Marlon Zhu, 2020, "Media, Typhoons, and Contests over Meteorological Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century East Asia," History of Meteorology, Vol. 9 (2020): A Question of Scale: Making Meteorological Knowledge and Nation in Imperial Asia, pp.1-13.

Book chapter

Marlon Zhu, 2021, "'A Stranger among Strangers': the Negative Image on Robert Hart in His Early Years in the Newspapers of Shanghai and Hong Kong," in Yi-fong Dai, Xing-hao Lian, Hai-gang Sui eds., Modern Chinese Customs and the Chinese Society: a memorial anthology for the one hundred anniversary of Mr. Shi-chi Chan, Xiamen: Xiamen University Press, pp.157-169.
Marlon Zhu, Jan. 2018, “The Boundary of Trust: the Foundering of the HSBC and the Inter-Port Intelligence Regime between Hong Kong and Shanghai in the 1860s,” editor(s): Shiuh-Feng Liu, Transmission of Information and Mutual Understanding across the Asian Wasters, Taipei: Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, pp.475-506. (in Chinese)Download
Marlon Zhu, Sept. 2015, “Media and the Environment in Treaty-Port China: The “Woosung Bar” Controversy in the 1870s”, editor(s): Ts’ui-jung Liu, Local Realities and Environmental Changes in the History of East Asia,New York: Routledge, pp.88-118.Download

Conference paper

朱瑪瓏，2017年12月，〈上海字林洋行對十九世紀歐洲社會主義運動的報導〉，發表於「轉型與流變：從晚清到五四」國際學術研討會，臺北：中央研究院近代史研究所，2017-12-07 ~ 2017-12-08。
朱瑪瓏，2017年12月，〈衛三畏與黑船來航前中國口岸英文報刊中的日本〉，共12頁，發表於「西方經驗與近代中日交流的思想連鎖 2017年度工作坊」，臺北：中央研究院近代史研究所，2017-12-04。
Marlon Zhu, Nov. 2017, “The Epistemological Origin of the ‘Area Studies’ on the 19th-Century East Asian Coasts”, 19 pages, paper presented at Reconstructing Cold War History in East Asia: Thought, Academia, and Ideology, Seoul: Northeast Asian History Foundation, 2017-11-20 ~ 2017-11-21.
朱瑪瓏，2017年11月，〈兩次鴉片戰爭戰間期英、美在東亞沿岸的情報作為〉，發表於「戰爭與東亞國際秩序的變動」國際學術研討會，臺北：中央研究院近代史研究所，2017-11-16 ~ 2017-11-17。
朱瑪瓏，2017年9月，〈帝國、輪船用煤與東亞的商業革命〉，發表於「2017海洋史工作坊─海洋亞洲的邊緣與中心」，臺北：中央研究院人文社會科學研究中心，2017-09-01。
朱瑪瓏，2016年12月，〈口岸英文報紙與十九世紀東亞的港際論述領域〉，發表於「跨區域與跨文化的接遇」國際學術研討會，臺北：中央研究院近代史研究所，2016-12-01 ~ 2016-12-02。
Marlon Zhu, Oct. 2015, “Heat, Consumption, and Tourism: the Making of Summer ‘Resorts’ in Treaty-port Shanghai in the Nineteenth Century”, paper presented at EAEH2015, Takamatsu, Japan: Association for East Asian Environmental History (AEAEH), 2015-10-22 ~ 2015-10-25.
朱瑪瓏，2015年10月，〈外交情報與港際報業：以1874年臺灣事件日、中兩國輪船運兵消息為例〉(Diplomatic Intelligence and the Inter-port Journalism: Focusing on the News of Steamer Trooping of Japan and China during the Formosa Incident of 1874)，發表於「近代東亞國際秩序的變遷與原理」國際研討會，台北：中研院近史所，2015-10-13 ~ 2015-10-14。
朱瑪瓏，2015年7月，〈「異邦人中的異邦人」：赫德早年在滬、港英文報中的負面形象〉("A Stranger among Strangers": the Negative Image on Robert Hart in His Early Years in the Newspapers of Shanghai and Hong Kong)，發表於紀念陳詩啟教授百年誕辰暨「中國海關與近代中國社會」研討會，廈門：廈門大學歷史系暨海關史研究中心，2015-07-04 ~ 2015-07-06。
Marlon Zhu, Jun. 2015, “Microbes, Newspaper Media, and the Pasteurization of East Asian Ports, 1880s-1890s”, paper presented at AAS-in-Asia, Taipei, 2015, Taipei: Association for Asian Studies, 2015-06-22 ~ 2015-06-24.
Marlon Zhu, Mar. 2015, “Trans-lingual Journalism and the Inter-port Intelligence Regime on the Formosa Incident of 1874”, paper presented at Workshop for "Networks and Communication in East Asia and Beyond in the 19th and Early 20th Century", Surrey, UK: Royal Holloway, University of London, 2015-03-06 ~ 2015-03-07.
朱瑪瓏，2014年9月，〈信任的邊界： 1860年代香港與上海間的港際情報體制與滙豐銀行的成立〉(The Boundary of Trust: The Founding of the HSBC and the Inter-Port Intelligence Regime between Hong Kong and Shanghai in the 1860s)，發表於2014年海洋史國際學術研討會：「亞洲海域間的信息傳遞與相互認識」，台北：中研院人文社會科學研究中心亞太區域研究專題中心，2014-09-18 ~ 2014-09-19。
朱瑪瓏，2014年8月，〈港際工程: 1875年來自日本的兩位荷蘭水利工程師對上海吳淞內沙的調查〉(Inter-Port Engineering: A Survey on the Woosung Bar near Shanghai by Two Dutch Hydrographic Engineers from Japan in 1875)，發表於「全球視野下的中國近代史研究」國際學術研討會，台北：中研院近史所，2014-08-11 ~ 2014-08-13。
朱瑪瓏，2013年12月，〈自由貿易、帝國與情報：十九世紀三十年代《廣州紀事報》中的臺灣知識〉(Free Trade, Empire, and Intelligence: Knowledge of Formosa in the Canton Register in the 1830s)，發表於2013中研院明清研究國際學術研討會，台北：中研院明清研究推動委員會，2013-12-05 ~ 2013-12-06。
Marlon Zhu, Nov. 2013, “Henry Piddington of Calcutta and the Law of Storms for Sailors in the Eastern Seas," paper presented at 2013 EASTS Network Conference, Tokyo: Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2013-11-15 ~ 2013-11-16.
Marlon Zhu, Nov. 2013, “Making the Far Eastern Mercantile Public: Commercial Press and the Inter-port Intelligence in Nineteenth-Century East Asia”, paper presented at Dialogues between European and Asian Commercial Documents: Trade, Cultural Exchanges and Knowledge Making in Modern East-Asia, Hsin Tsu, Taiwan: Institute of Taiwan History, Department of History of National Tsing Hua University, 2013-11-01 ~ 2013-11-02.
Marlon Zhu, Oct. 2013, “Media, Hydrographic Knowledge, and the Last Twelve Miles of the China Trade: The North China Herald and the Woosung Bar Controversy in the 1870s”, paper presented at EAEH2013, Hualian, Taiwan: Association for East Asian Environmental History, Institute of Taiwan History, 2013-10-24 ~ 2013-10-26.
朱瑪瓏，2012年7月，〈港際的文明絮語: 城市間商業網絡與十九世紀中國沿岸氣象學〉，發表於近代東亞城市的社會群體與社會網絡，台北：中研院近史所，2012-07-24。
Marlon Zhu, Oct. 2011, “Calculating Environmental Risk at Seas: Marine Insurance Companies and Typhoon Warning in Nineteenth-century Shanghai and Hong Kong”, paper presented at EAEH2011, Taipei, Taiwan: Association for East Asian Environmental History and Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, 2011-10-24 ~ 2011-10-26.
Marlon Zhu, Oct. 2011, “Never Pure Synoptic Method: Networking of the British Meteorological Observation Network in the Treaty-port World”, paper presented at Pacific Neighborhood Consortium 2011 Annual Conference, Bangkok, Thailand: Pacific Neighborhood Consortium, 2011-10-19 ~ 2011-10-21.
Marlon Zhu, Oct. 2010, “Certificating Itinerary: Inter-port Qualification Exams of Dr. William W. Myers’ Chinese Pupils in Western Medicine, 1886-1889”, paper presented at The Fifth Asian Society for the History of Medicine, Suwon, Korea: Asian Society for the History of Medicine, 2010-10-07 ~ 2010-10-09.

Dissertation

Marlon Zhu, May. 2012, “Typhoons, Meteorological Intelligence, and the Inter-Port Mercantile Community in Nineteenth-Century China”, 322 pages, Department of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York.Download