General

Jiajing Zhang 


Associate Professor

School of HumanitiesUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences

55 Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100190, China

zjj@ucas.ac.cn

Research Areas

  • History of cartography, focus on history of map-making technology, cartography under the impact of western in modern China

  • History of geography, focus on higher geography education in modern China

  • History of science and technology in modern China, focus on Chinese scientist structure, especially geographers, geologists, and cartographers; Chinese scientific community

Education

Ph.D.  History of Science: History of Cartography

The Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, CAS, Beijing, China, 2010/9-2013/7

Dissertation: Modern Western Mapping in China: Take Terrain Representation and Map Projection for Example


M.S.  History of Science: History of Geography

Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China,  2006/9-2009/7

Thesis: Research on Geography Education of University in The Early Republic China (1911-1937) 

                                                                                        

B.S.  Geography Science

Xi’an University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, 2002/9-2006/7

Experience


Work Experience

  • 2021/12-Present. Associate Professor, School of Humanities, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences;

  • 2015/8-2021/11. Assistant Professor, School of Humanities, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences;

  • 2013/7-2015/7. Assistant Professor, The Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Teaching Experience

Sole Instructor

  • 2015-2023, History of Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • 2021-2023, History of Exploration, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • 2018, History of Sciences, Central Academy of Fine Arts

  • 2016-2017, Academic Writing, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Teaching Assistant

  • 2016, Maps and Civilization, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • 2017, The Role of Scientists in Society, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • 2017, Ancient Chinese History, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publications

Papers

  1. Jiajing Zhang. The Art of Compromise: New Maps in Local Gazetteers of the Late Qing Dynasty.Isis, 2022, 113(4): 829-840.

  2.  Jiajing Zhang. Study on the Types of Projections in the “General Map of the World” during the Ming and Qing DynastiesStudies in The History of Natural Sciences, 2022, 42(3): 322-340

  3. Jiajing Zhang. Panoramic: ancient Chinese maps on the world stage. International Journal of Cartography, 2021, 3(4): 1-2.

  4. Jiajing Zhang. Science and National Defence: Special Editions on the National Defence Science Movement during the Anti-Japanese War. Cultures of Science, 2020, 3(3): 168-185.

  5. Shih-Pei Chen, Kenneth J. Hammond, Anne Gerritsen, Shellen Wu, Jiajing Zhang. Local Gazetteers Research Tools: Overview and Research Application. Journal of Chinese History, 2020, 4(2), 544-558.

  6. Jiajing Zhang. Zhang Xiangwen’s Contribution to Modern Chinese geography. Modern Science, 2019, (6): 25-32.

  7. Jiajing Zhang. Spreading and Applying of the Hill Shading Method in Cartography in Modern China. The Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology, 2018, 39(4): 414-426.

  8. Jiajing Zhang. The Source and Determination of the Term “Hill Shading” in Cartography. China Terminology, 2018, 20(4): 63-68.

  9. Huan Chang, Ruihua Lv, Jiajing Zhang. Research on Cooperative Network: with Liu Dongsheng as the Core of the Quaternary Academic Genealogy as An Example. Information Studies: Theory & Application, 2016, 39(4): 14-19.

  10. Yifan Wang, Jiajing Zhang. A Study of Topographic Surveying and Mapping of the Lower Yangtze Region in the Early Tongzhi Period. The Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology, 2016, 37(2): 174-188.

  11. Jiajing Zhang. The Introduction and Development of the Contour Method in Late Qing Dynasty. The Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology, 2015, 36(4): 424-440.

  12. Jiajing Zhang. Appearance and Unity of “Contour”. China Terminology, 2015, (4): 44-48.

  13. Jiajing Zhang. Unravel the Secrets of Loess. Encyclopedic Knowledge, 2015, (24):13-15.

  14. Jiajing Zhang. History Trace of a Photo about Using Ponytail as a Compass. The Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology, 2014, (4): 433-438.

  15. Jiajing Zhang. The Evolution and Development of the Term “Hachuring” in Cartography. China Terminology, 2013, (2): 61-63,10.

  16. Jiajing Zhang. The Application and Transmission of Mercator Projection in Late-Qing Dynasty. Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities (Natural Science Edition), 2013, 19(2): 30-36.

  17. Jiajing Zhang. The Transmission and Development of Map Hachuring in China.  The Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology, 2013, 34(4): 485-501.

  18. Jiajing Zhang. Calendar Case: Conflict between Chinese and Western Astronomy in Qing Dynasty. Encyclopedic Knowledge, 2013, (2B):10-12.

  19. Jiajing Zhang. Western Learning Spreading to the East in Chinese Cartography. Encyclopedic Knowledge, 2013, (2A):24-26.

  20. Jiajing Zhang, Yongjian Hou. Preliminary Studies on Chinese Higher Geographical Education in 1862-1904. Higher Education of Sciences, 2009, (3): 26-29.

Books

  1. Translated by Jiajing Zhang, Qiang Fu. The Great Explorers and Their Journeys of Discovery(伟大的探险之旅). Chongqing: Chongqing University Press, 2022.

  2. Compiled by Jiajing Zhang. Inspirational stories of scientists (The second series). Beijing: China Science & Technology Press, 2021.

  3. Translated by Jiajing Zhang. The Maps that Made History: Theater of the World (地图3000年). Beijing: Citic Press, 2021.

  4. Written by Jiajing Zhang. Unravel the secrets of Loess: The Story of Geologist Liu Dongsheng. Beijing: Beijing Publishing Group, Beijing Children's Publishing Press, 2019.

  5. Compiled by Jiajing Zhang. One Hundred Chinese Scientists in Modern China (The first series). Beijing: China Science & Technology Press, 2017.

  6. Written and edited by Jiajing Zhang. My Predestined Love with Loss: The Oral Autobiography of Liu Dongsheng. Changsha: Hunan Education Press, 2017.

  7. Translated by Danyang Chen, Jiajing Zhang. Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society(地图的文明史). Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2016.

Conferences

  • 22 April 2021. Longitude and Latitude of Local Gazetteer Maps in the Qing Dynasty—Analysis based on LoGaRT Database. “Visual Materials in Local Gazetteers” Workshop, MPIWG. Zoom online.

  • 10 December 2020. Research on the Longitude and Latitude of Gazetteer Maps in Qing Dynasty, “Visual Materials in Local Gazetteers” Workshop, MPIWG. Zoom online.

  • 18 July 2019. Research on the Longitude and Latitude Grid on the Ggazetteer Maps of Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty. The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Leiden.

  • 16 July 2018. Spreading and Applying of the Hill Shading Method in Cartography in Modern China. The 17th International Conference of Historical Geographers, Warsaw.

  • 27 July 2017. “No Science, No National Defense”: The Historical Impact of the national defense science movement in China in World War II. The 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Rio de Janeiro.

  • 15 November 2017. Research on Scientists Biographies from the Perspective of Oral History——Take Liu Dongsheng's Oral Autobiography as an Example. The 1st Annual Conference of History of Chinese Sciences and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

  • 14 October 2017. Spreading and Applying of the Hill Shading Method in Cartography in Modern China. The 2nd Symposium on Ancient Maps. Renmin University of China, Beijing.

  • 23 September 2016. No Sciences, No National Defense: The Historical Impact of the national defense science movement of China from 1941 to 1949. The 7th European Society for the History of Science Conference, Prague.

  • 8 July 2015. The Spreading and Application of Western Cartography Drawing in Modern China——Take Contour Method for an Example. The 14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, Paris.

  • 30 September 2014. The Spreading and Application of Western Cartography Drawing in Modern China. The Inheritance and Innovation of Historical Geography and the Study of the Security and Administration of the Western Frontier in China——2014 International Symposium of Chinese Historical Geography, Chengdu.

  • 18 May 2014. Research on the Earliest Geography Department in Chineses University. “The Complete Works of Zhu Kezhen” entered Zhejiang University and “Zhu Kezhen Studies” seminar, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou.