More-Than People’s Communes: Veterinary Workers and Nonhuman Animals in Mao-Era China
Jongsik Christian Yi. Under contract with the University of Chicago Press, 2022.
56 works
Books
Chinese Science and Technology in the Long Twentieth Century
Jongsik Christian Yi (work in progress)
Seeing and Thinking Like a Historian
Jongsik Christian Yi (work in progress)
What Science Leaves Behind, What It Erases
Jongsik Christian Yi. Under contract with Miraebook
History 101 for STEM Majors [공대생을 위한 역사학 강의]
Jongsik Christian Yi. Nermer Books, forthcoming.
Animal History: The Birth of the Modern People who Love and Hate Animals [벌거벗은 동물사: 동물을 사랑하고 혐오하는 현대인의 탄생]
Jongsik Christian Yi. East Asia Books, 2024.
Book Chapters
Lyuh Woon-hyung and Khüree the City of Red Giant
In Overlapping Borderlands, eds. Loretta Kim and Anran Wang.
Jongsik Christian Yi (work in progress).
Pig Breeding and Sexual Taboos in the Early People’s Republic
In China's Environmental History: A Reader, eds. Brian Lander and Peter Lavelle. Columbia University Press.
Jongsik Christian Yi (forthcoming in December 2026).
Possibilities and Limitations of Mass Science: Hydrobiologist Nie Dashu and the Making of Knowledge on Fish Diseases Before the Great Leap
In A Revolution Across Arts and Sciences: Participatory Knowledge Production in China’s Great Leap Forward, eds. Christine Ho and Sigrid Schmalzer. Hong Kong University Press.
Jongsik Christian Yi (forthcoming in July 2026).
Animals, Environments, and the History of Science in Korea [동물, 환경, 그리고 한국 과학사]
Manyong Moon, Sang-ho Ro, Jongsik Christian Yi, et al. Sol Science, 2025.
The Structure of the Long Cold War and Its Knowledge Apparatus [장기 냉전 구조와 지식 기제]
Donghyuk Kim, Jongsik Christian Yi, et al. GIST Press, 2025.
Journal Articles
Maoist Pigs: Swine, Communes, and the State in Rural China, 1949–1976
Jongsik Christian Yi. Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 85, No. 2 (May 2026): 287–311.
Rabbit Spleen and Medicinal Herbs: Animal Infectious Diseases, Grassroots Communes, and the State in Maoist China
Jongsik Christian Yi. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 98, No. 2 (Summer 2024): 298–325.
Decolonization and Self-Reflection: Teaching the Korean History of Science in South Korea
Jongsik Christian Yi. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Vol. 54, No. 1 (February 2024): 121–124.
Dialectical Materialism Serves Voluntarist Productivism: The Epistemic Foundation of Lysenkoism in Socialist China and North Vietnam
Jongsik Christian Yi. Journal of the History of Biology, Vol. 54, No. 3 (September 2021): 513–539.
Conference Report on the Mr. Science, May Fourth, and Modern China Workshop
Jongsik Christian Yi. Bulletin of the Pacific Circle, No. 43 (October 2019).
What Is Animal History?: On Recent Anglophone Historiography [동물사의 문제의식과 서사 전략: 영어권 연구 동향을 중심으로]
Jongsik Christian Yi. Yoksa Hakbo: The Korean Historical Review, 265 (March 2025): 505–540.
Making a “Korean Caltech”: Physicist Hogil Kim, Yonam Institute of Technology, and Pohang University of Science and Technology, 1972-1994 [대학교수들을 위한 연구 “왕국” 만들기: 물리학자 김호길의 연암공학원 및 포항공과대학 구상과 건학]
Jongsik Christian Yi. Korean Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 46, No. 1 (April 2024): 203–233.
Peanut Hulls, Swine Feces, and Silver Carps: Eating, Excreting, and Communal Metabolism in 1950s Guangxi [코뮨은 무엇으로 사는가?―1950년대 중국 광시 지역 농촌 공동체의 물질대사]
Jongsik Christian Yi. Critical Review of History, Vol. 145 (November 2023): 209–236.
In a Spectrum between Self-Denial and Self-Assertion: A Reading of the Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Twentieth-Century China [20세기 중국 과학사·기술사·의학사 독법(讀法): 자기 부정과 자기 재생산을 양극으로 하는 하나의 스펙트럼 안에서]
Jongsik Christian Yi. Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 64, No. 2 (June 2021): 41–87.
Scientific Needles for Livestock Animals in Communes: The Birth of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine in Maoist China, 1956-1963 [집체(集體)의 가축을 위한 침술의 과학: 마오쩌둥 시기 중수의학의 탄생, 1956-1963]
Jongsik Christian Yi. Korean Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 43, No. 1 (April 2021): 143–174.
Translations
American Higher Education since World War II: A History
Original Work: Roger L. Geiger. Princeton University Press, 2021.
Translated by: TBA, edited and introduced by Jongsik Christian Yi. Gyoyu Books, forthcoming.
The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies
Original Work: Fabio Lanza. Duke University Press, 2017.
Translated by: Jaehee Seol and Jongsik Christian Yi. Geulhangari, forthcoming in July 2026
Spectacles of Waste
Original Work: Warwick Anderson. Polity, 2024.
Translated by: Jungha Hwang and Jongsik Christian Yi. May Books, forthcoming in July 2026.
Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision
Original Work: David Kaiser ed. MIT Press, 2010.
Translated by: Taebok Roh, edited and introduced by Jongsik Christian Yi. Red Salt Books, 2026.
Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China
Original Work: William C. Kirby. Harvard University Press, 2022.
Translated by: Hyunjeong Lim, edited and introduced by Jongsik Christian Yi. Red Salt Books, 2026.
Postcolonial STS and Asia as Method
Original Work: Warwick Anderson. 2025.
Selected and translated by: Jongsik Christian Yi. Eum, 2025.
Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China
Original Work: Sigrid Schmalzer. University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Translated by: Jongsik Christian Yi and Jiho Moon. Purunyoksa Publishing Co., 2025.
Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Original Work: Victor Seow. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Translated by: Jongsik Christian Yi. Red Salt Books, 2024.
Lysenko's Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia
Original Work: Loren Graham. Harvard University Press, 2016.
Translated by: Jongsik Christian Yi. East Asia Books, 2021.
Social Injustice and Public Health
Original Work: Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel. Oxford University Press, 2nd ed, 2013.
Translated by: Young-jeon Shin, Jongsik Christian Yi, et al. Hanul, 2021.
Book Reviews
Review of Human-Animal Relations and the Hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia
Original Work: George L. Kallander. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
Reviewed in: Animal History, Vol. 1, No. 2 (June 2025): 87-89.
Review of Technoscience of Tak and Artisans: Resourceful Evolution of Chosŏn Papermaking
Original Work: Jung Lee. Purunyoksa Publishing Co., 2023.
Reviewed in: The Korean Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 45, No. 2 (August 2023): 413-417.
Review of Histoire du traitement de la mélancolie [History of the Treatment of Melancholy]
Original Work: Jean Starobinski. Korean trans. Younguk Kim. ITTA, 2023.
Reviewed in: Korean Science, Technology, and Society Network ed., Science, Technology, and Society, Vol. 4, Goyang: Aleph Books, 2023.
Review of A Cultural History of Heredity
Original Work: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller-Wille. Korean trans. Jaehwan Hyun, Pusan National University Press, 2022
Reviewed in: The Korean Journal of Medical History, Vol. 32, No. 1 (April 2023): 423-433.
Review of Knowledge Production in Mao-Era China: Learning from the Masses
Original Work: Rui Kunze and Marc Andre Matten. Lexington Books, 2021.
Reviewed in: East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3 (August 2022): 445-447.
Review of Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Original Work: Victor Seow. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Reviewed in: The Korean Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 44, No. 1 (April 2022): 213-220.
Review of Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China
Original Work: Liz P. Y. Chee, Duke University Press, 2021.
Reviewed in: History: The Journal of the Historical Association, Vol. 106, No. 373 (December 2021): 871-872.
Public Writings
After China’s Scientific Rise #1: Can Shanzhai Lift the China Dream? [이종식의 중국 과학굴기 너머 01: ‘산자이’는 중국몽의 지렛대가 될까]
Jongsik Christian Yi. Hankyoreh, May 22, 2026.
Documentary Insight: China Speed [인재전쟁2: 1부 차이나 스피드]
Interview with KBS 1TV. May 14, 2026.
양자컴 교수에 교육부 맡겼다… ‘딥시크 쇼크’ 中 혁신의 비밀
Interview with The JoongAng Daily. January 21, 2026.
There Is No Such Thing as “Western Science”; Nor, Perhaps, Is There Chinese Science, Indian Science, or Korean Science [서양과학은 없다, 어쩌면 중국과학, 인도과학, 한국과학도]
Jongsik Christian Yi. University In & Out, January 18, 2026.
‘빨리, 많이’ AI 인재 양성한다는 이 정부… 경제적 보상, 직업 안정성 등 과학자 존중받는 서사 필요 [마가와 굴기 넘어②]
Interview with The Kyunghyang Shinmun. January 6, 2026.
What Do Chinese Science and Technology Mean in South Korea After the ‘DeepSeek Shock’? (2) [우리에게 중국 과학기술은 무엇인가? (2)]
Jongsik Christian Yi. The JoongAng Daily, December 2, 2025.
What Do Chinese Science and Technology Mean in South Korea After the ‘DeepSeek Shock’? (1) [우리에게 중국 과학기술은 무엇인가? (1)]
Jongsik Christian Yi. The JoongAng Daily, November 25, 2025.
“넘어지면 어때요, 계속 발전할 건데” 로봇올림픽에서 본 중국 과학기술의 진짜 힘
Interview with The Kyunghyang Shinmun. August 17, 2025.
What Do You Know about Lysenko? [‘유사과학자’ 리센코를 아십니까?]
Jongsik Christian Yi. Horizon: The Online Magazine of Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), May 15, 2025.
The Historical Roots of China’s DeepSeek [딥시크의 중국, 과학기술계 ‘졸부’가 아니다]
Jongsik Christian Yi. Hankyoreh, April 18, 2025.
Mao Zedong’s Philosophy of Science and Its Impact [마오의 과학관과 그 영향]
Jongsik Christian Yi. EPI: The Science Magazine, Vol. 31, Spring 2025.
Talking Animals with Jongsik Christian Yi
Interview with Chinese Animal Studies Network. February 25, 2025.
Of Scientists, by Scientists, and for Scientists: Pohang University of Science and Technology at 40 [제2의 건학에 즈음하여 되돌아본 우리대학의 역사]
Jongsik Christian Yi. The Postech Times, June 12, 2024.
A Way of Learning, A Way of Growing [배움의 길, 성장의 길]
Jongsik Christian Yi. Postechian, Vol. 181, April 2024.
Miracles and Flames: The Stories of Pohang Iron and Steel’s 135 Days of Recovery from Typhoon Hinnamnor [함께 만든 기적, 꺼지지 않는 불꽃: 불가능을 가능케 한 포스코 재난극복 135일의 이야기]
Sang Joon Park, Jongsik Christian Yi, et al. Nanam, 2023.
The Difficulties of a New Instructor [초보 교수자의 어려움]
Jongsik Christian Yi. The Postech Times, November 13, 2022.
When and How Did Pandemics End? [팬데믹은 언제 어떻게 끝날까?]
Jongsik Christian Yi. The Bulletin of National Museum of Korean Contemporary History, September 1, 2022.
Arthdal Chronicles, Sorcery, Superstition, and Science [‘아스달 연대기’와 마법, 미신, 그리고 과학]
Jongsik Christian Yi. Behind Sciences, Vol. 8, March 2020.