Books
Anglophone Monographs
Jongsik Christian Yi, More-Than People’s Communes: Veterinary Workers and Nonhuman Animals in Mao-Era China (under contract with the University of Chicago Press).
Non-Anglophone Monographs
Jongsik Christian Yi, Chinese Science and Technology in the Long Twentieth Century (work in progress, in Korean).
Jongsik Christian Yi, Seeing and Thinking Like a Historian (work in progress, in Korean).
Jongsik Christian Yi, What Science Leaves Behind, What It Erases (under contract with Miraebook) (in Korean).
Jongsik Christian Yi, History 101 for STEM Majors (Nermer Books, forthcoming) (in Korean).
Jongsik Christian Yi, Animal History: The Birth of the Modern People who Love and Hate Animals (East Asia Books, 2024) (in Korean).
Book Chapters
Anglophone Volumes
Jongsik Christian Yi, “Lyuh Woon-hyung and Khüree the City of Red Giant,” in Overlapping Borderlands, eds. Loretta Kim and Anran Wang (work in progress).
Jongsik Christian Yi, “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, forthcoming).
Jongsik Christian Yi, “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, forthcoming).
Non-Anglophone Volumes
Manyong Moon, Sang-ho Ro, Jongsik Christian Yi, et al., Animals, Environments, and the History of Science in Korea (Sol Science, 2025) (in Korean).
Donghyuk Kim, Jongsik Christian Yi, et al., The Structure of the Long Cold War and Its Knowledge Apparatus (GIST Press, 2025) (in Korean).
Journal Articles
Anglophone Journals
Jongsik Christian Yi, “Maoist Pigs: Swine, Communes, and the State in Rural China, 1949–1976,” Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 85, No. 2 (May 2026): 287–311.
Jongsik Christian Yi, “Rabbit Spleen and Medicinal Herbs: Animal Infectious Diseases, Grassroots Communes, and the State in Maoist China,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 98, No. 2 (Summer 2024): 298–325.
Jongsik Christian Yi, “Decolonization and Self-Reflection: Teaching the Korean History of Science in South Korea,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Vol. 54, No. 1 (February 2024): 121–124.
Jongsik Christian Yi, “Dialectical Materialism Serves Voluntarist Productivism: The Epistemic Foundation of Lysenkoism in Socialist China and North Vietnam,” Journal of the History of Biology, Vol. 54, No. 3 (September 2021): 513–539.
Jongsik Christian Yi, “Conference Report on the Mr. Science, May Fourth, and Modern China Workshop,” Bulletin of the Pacific Circle, No. 43 (October 2019).
Non-Anglophone Journals
Jongsik Christian Yi, “What Is Animal History?: On Recent Anglophone Historiography,” Yoksa Hakbo: The Korean Historical Review, 265 (March 2025): 505–540 (in Korean).
Jongsik Christian Yi, “Making a “Korean Caltech”: Physicist Hogil Kim, Yonam Institute of Technology, and Pohang University of Science and Technology, 1972-1994,” Korean Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 46, No. 1 (April 2024): 203–233 (in Korean).
Jongsik Christian Yi, “Peanut Hulls, Swine Feces, and Silver Carps: Eating, Excreting, and Communal Metabolism in 1950s Guangxi,” Critical Review of History, Vol. 145 (November 2023): 209–236 (in Korean).
Jongsik Christian Yi, “In a Spectrum between Self-Denial and Self-Assertion: A Reading of the Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Twentieth-Century China,” Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 64. No. 2 (June 2021): 41–87 (in Korean).
Jongsik Christian Yi, “Scientific Needles for Livestock Animals in Communes: The Birth of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine in Maoist China, 1956–1963,” Korean Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 43, No. 1 (April 2021): 143–174 (in Korean).
Translations
The Korean Edition of Roger L. Geiger, American Higher Education since World War II: A History (Princeton University Press, 2021). Translated by TBA, scholarly review by Jongsik Christian Yi, Gyoyu Books, forthcoming.
The Korean Edition of David Kaiser ed., Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision (MIT Press, 2010). Translated by Taebok Roh, scholarly review by Jongsik Christian Yi, Red Salt Books, forthcoming.
The Korean Edition of William C. Kirby, Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China (Harvard University Press, 2022). Translated by Hyunjeong Lim, scholarly review by Jongsik Christian Yi, Red Salt Books, forthcoming.
The Korean Edition of Fabio Lanza, The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies (Duke University Press, 2017). Translated by Jaehee Seol and Jongsik Christian Yi, Geulhangari, forthcoming.
The Korean Edition of Warwick Anderson, Spectacles of Waste (Polity, 2024). Translated by Jungha Hwang and Jongsik Christian Yi, May Books, forthcoming.
The Korean Edition of Warwick Anderson’s works on Postcolonial STS and Asia as Method. Selected and translated by Jongsik Christian Yi, Eum, 2025.
The Korean Edition of Sigrid Schmalzer, Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Translated by Jongsik Christian Yi and Jiho Moon, Purunyoksa Publishing Co., 2025.
The Korean Edition of Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Translated by Jongsik Christian Yi, Red Salt Books, 2024.
The Korean Edition of Loren Graham, Lysenko’s Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia (Harvard University Press, 2016). Translated by Jongsik Christian Yi, East Asia Books, 2021.
The Korean Edition of Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel eds., Social Injustice and Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2013). Translated by Young-jeon Shin, Jongsik Christian Yi, et al., Hanul, 2021.
Book Reviews
Review of George L. Kallander, Human-Animal Relations and the Hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023), Animal History, Vol. 1, No. 2 (June 2025): 87–89.
Review of Jung Lee, Technoscience of Tak and Artisans: Resourceful Evolution of Chosŏn Papermaking (Seoul: Purunyoksa Publishing Co., 2023), The Korean Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 45, No. 2 (August 2023): 413–417.
Review of Jean Starobinski, Histoire du traitement de la mélancolie [History of the Treatment of Melancholy] (Korean trans. Younguk Kim, Seoul: ITTA, 2023), Korean Science, Technology, and Society Network ed., Science, Technology, and Society, Vol. 4, Goyang: Aleph Books, 2023.
Review of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller-Wille, A Cultural History of Heredity (Korean trans. Jaehwan Hyun, Pusan: Pusan National University Press, 2022), The Korean Journal of Medical History, Vol. 32, No. 1 (April 2023): 423–433.
Review of Rui Kunze and Marc Andre Matten, Knowledge Production in Mao-Era China: Learning from the Masses (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021), East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3 (August 2022): 445–447.
Review of Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022), The Korean Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 44, No. 1(April 2022): 213–220.
Review of Liz P. Y. Chee, Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021), History: The Journal of the Historical Association, Vol. 106, Issue 373 (December 2021): 871–872.
Awards, Fellowships, and Grants (Selected)
Annual Essay Prize, The Korean History of Science Society (KHSS), 2025.
Start-up Research Grant, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2025–2028.
N.EX.T Idea Project, POSCO Holdings N.EX.T Hub, 2023–2024.
F. Hilary Conray Award, The Association for Asian Studies (AAS), 2023.
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, The American Historical Association (AHA), 2022.
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 2022–2023 (declined).
Dissertation Fellowship, The D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia, 2022–2023 (declined).
Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship, The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, 2020-2021.
The Predissertation Travel Grant to China, Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies, 2020.
Erwin Hiebert Fellowship, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, 2017–2021.
Esherick–Ye Family Foundation Grant in Modern Chinese History, The Esherick–Ye Family Foundation, 2017–2018.
Fulbright Foreign Student Program, Institute of International Education (IIE) and Fulbright Korean-American Educational Commission, 2016–2017.
Public Essays and Publications
Interview with The JoongAng Daily, “양자컴 교수에 교육부 맡겼다…‘딥시크 쇼크’ 中 혁신의 비밀,” January 21, 2026.
Jongsik Christian Yi, “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], University In & Out, January 18, 2026.
Interview with The Kyunghyang Shinmun, “‘빨리, 많이’ AI 인재 양성한다는 이 정부… “경제적 보상·직업 안정성 등 과학자 존중받는 서사 필요” [마가와 굴기 넘어②],” January 6, 2026.
Jongsik Christian Yi, “What Do Chinese Science and Technology Mean in South Korea After the ‘DeepSeek Shock’? (2)” [우리에게 중국 과학기술은 무엇인가? (2)], The JoongAng Daily, December 2, 2025.
Jongsik Christian Yi, “What Do Chinese Science and Technology Mean in South Korea After the ‘DeepSeek Shock’? (1)” [우리에게 중국 과학기술은 무엇인가? (1)], The JoongAng Daily, November 25, 2025.
Interview with The Kyunghyang Shinmun, ““넘어지면 어때요, 계속 발전할 건데” 로봇올림픽에서 본 중국 과학기술의 진짜 힘,” August 17, 2025.
Jongsik Christian Yi, “What Do You Know about Lysenko?” [‘유사과학자’ 리센코를 아십니까?], Horizon: The Online Magazine of Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), May 15, 2025.
Jongsik Christian Yi, “The Historical Roots of China’s DeepSeek” [딥시크의 중국, 과학기술계 ‘졸부’가 아니다], Hankyoreh, April 18, 2025.
Jongsik Christian Yi, “Mao Zedong’s Philosophy of Science and Its Impact” [마오의 과학관과 그 영향], EPI: The Science Magazine Vol. 31, Spring 2025.
Interview with Chinese Animal Studies Network, “Talking Animals with Jongsik Christian Yi,” February 25, 2025.
Jongsik Christian Yi, “Of Scientists, by Scientsts, and for Scientists: Pohang University of Science and Technology at 40” [제2의 건학에 즈음하여 되돌아본 우리대학의 역사], The Postech Times, June 12, 2024.
Jongsik Christian Yi, “A Way of Learning, A Way of Growing” [배움의 길, 성장의 길], Postechian Vol. 181, April 2024.
Sang Joon Park, Jongsik Christian Yi, et al., 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], Paju: Nanam, 2023.
Jongsik Christian Yi, “The Difficulties of a New Instructor” [초보 교수자의 어려움], The Postech Times, November 13, 2022.
Jongsik Christian Yi, “When and How Did Pandemics End?” [팬데믹은 언제 어떻게 끝날까?], The Bulletin of National Museum of Korean Contemporary History, September 1, 2022.
Jongsik Christian Yi, “Arthdal Chronicles, Sorcery, Superstition, and Science” [‘아스달 연대기’와 마법, 미신, 그리고 과학], Behind Sciences Vol. 8, March 2020.
