Welcome to Chinese and Asian Science Studies Lab
The CASS Lab examines how science and technology arrived in the greater Asia, how they helped shape the region’s industrial and post-industrial modernities, and where they may be leading Asian societies today.
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About the Lab
Based at KAIST STP, the CASS Lab explores how scientific knowledge and technological systems shape and are shaped by culture, politics, power, policy, and everyday life across China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and beyond. We aim to engage with the rise of Chinese and Asian science and technology, and to develop critical, historically grounded perspectives on science and technology from Asia, asking how Asian experiences can help us better understand the past, present, and future of science in society.
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Director, CASS Lab
Principal Investigator
Jongsik Christian Yi
Jongsik Christian Yi is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy at KAIST, specializing in the history of science and medicine, science and technology studies of China and Vietnam, and animal and environmental studies. His research draws on perspectives from history, STS, policy studies, and multispecies scholarship to examine how science and technology have shaped societies, environments, and life across Asia.
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