讓現代科學成為武器：中國科學社與科學救國主義的多重輪廓 (1915-1938) Weaponizing Modern Science: The Changing Contours of Scientific Patriotism of the Science Society of China in 1915-1938

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2025/26 School of Chinese Research Student Seminar

讓現代科學成為武器：中國科學社與科學救國主義的多重輪廓 (1915-1938)

Weaponizing Modern Science: The Changing Contours of Scientific Patriotism of the Science Society of China in 1915-1938

Speaker: Mr. CHEUNG Wai Chung 張瑋宗 (MPhil)

Date & Time: January 23, 2026 (Fri) 17:30-18:45 (HKT)
Language: English
Venue: CRT-7.30, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Mode of Delivery: Face-to-face

Abstract:

本報告分析中國科學社與二十世紀科學救國主義形成的關係。自1915年起，中國科學社透過實踐各項活動和計劃，推動現代科學在中國落地生根。除了推廣現代科學知識和技術之外，中國科學社及其成員還透過不同渠道形塑其科學救國主義理念。早在第一次世界大戰期間及之後一段時間，這批中國科學家透過世界大戰設想中國未來的科學發展和發展國力的必要條件。北伐成功之後，國民政府名義上統一了全國，並成立中央研究院，作為官方支持的科學研究機關。當中國科學社不復成為國內領導的科學學術組織之後，這批科學家及科學社如何與政府保持微妙的關係？加上，中國科學社作為非官方組織，又如何回應1930年代官方提倡的民族主義論述？五四以來，這批科學家一直以自由漂浮的形態參與方方面面的社會和政治事務，這種形態由1910到1930年代又經歷了何等轉變？本報告會以科學社的出版物、成員之間的書信、報章等等分析這種科學救國主義所具備的多重輪廓。

This presentation examines the making of scientific patriotism of the Science Society of China (SSC) in the early twentieth century. Since 1915, the SSC had been devoted to promoting modern science in China. In addition to mastering modern science knowledge and technologies, the SSC and its members expressed patriotic visions despite changing political climates from the 1910s to the 1930s. During and immediately after the First World War, the Chinese scientists were anxious about the future of China. Many of them aspired to develop China into a strong and wealthy nation by promoting modern science. When the Nationalist government unified the country after the “successful” Northern Expedition, the SSC tried to respond to the calls for nationalism in different ways. Further after the Academia Sinica’s establishment in the late 1920s, the SSC was no longer the authority of science societies in China. How did the SSC and its members adapt to political changes and the calls for state-centered nationalism in the 1930s? Were they still as “free-floating” as they were before the Nationalist government’s establishment? I will use newspapers, books and articles about the SSC and its members to study how these scientists strategically delivered patriotic narratives concerning the changing political climates at that time.

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