Daiwie Fu

Daiwie Fu (first name pronunciated from Taiwanese Hokkien, Chinese: 傅大為; pinyin: Fù Dàwéi; Wade–Giles: Fu Ta-wei, born September 1953) is a Taiwanese academic, and the founding editor-in-chief of the STS academic journal East Asian Science, Technology and Society.[1] He was formerly Distinguished Professor of the graduate institute of STS, now Emeritus Professor, in National Yang-Ming Chao-Tong University. His research areas are science and technology studies, gender and medicine in modern Taiwan, gender and science, East Asian STS, history and philosophy of science, and the history of Chinese science (mainly on biji, Mengxi Bitan and the cultural history of science in the Song Dynasty). He has published papers in Chinese, English, Italian, Korean, and Japanese. He published three academic books, several social criticisms, and has founded several Taiwanese magazines and academic journals, including the radical journal, Taiwan: a Radical Quarterly in Social Studies.[2] Since the lifting of Taiwan's martial law, he has also participated in social activist movements.

Daiwie Fu

Early life and education

Daiwie Fu was born in Taiwan. His parents came from mainland China. His father was a Committee Member of Taiwan's Examination Yuan. At high school he liked physics, chemistry, and biology, and he studied a undergraduate degree majoring in physics at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, graduating in 1975.

While at college his interests in literature and philosophy grew, and after college, he shifted his major interest to philosophy, studying for an M.A. in Philosophy at Ohio State University, USA, in 1980, focused on logic and analytic philosophy. He remained in the United States for his PhD studies at Columbia University, studying philosophy and sociology, which he finished in 1986. During his graduate studies, he was strongly influenced by Thomas Kuhn's The Structure, and also met Robert Merton in Columbia for sociology of science, which introduced him to the work of Lugwik Fleck and STS. While in New York City, Fu met Taiwanese political exiles and oversea activists. After more than seven years in the United States, Fu returned to Taiwan in 1986.

Academic career

In 1986, back in Taiwan, Fu began to teach at his alma mater, National Tsing-Hua University, becoming a professor at the Institute of History, in the emerging field of history of science.

Fu was an active participant in the Taiwanese democratization movements of the late 1980s following the lifting of martial law, especially on campus, promoting radical scholarship. He wrote several newspaper columns and published several short collections of social criticism. He gathered radical intellectuals to form a new journal, Taiwan: a Radical Journal in Social Studies. Meanwhile, he continued his academic work, ranging from history and philosophy of science to Taiwan's cultural and intellectual history. He used his background in philosophy and sociology of science to open a research path into the Chinese history of science.

Later, his interests focused on a new reading and analysis of Song's classic biji (筆記) Mengxi Bitan (夢溪筆談). He also continued to develop his interest in social studies of science, which coincided with the Taiwanese government's concerns with long-term technological controversies such as the social debates over nuclear power. This combination of interests led to the formation of Taiwan's STS (Science and Technology Studies) intellectual movements. In collaboration with other intellectuals and feminists, Fu helped to establish a government-sponsored international journal, East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS). Fu also helped to form the first STS graduate institute, the first school of humanities and social sciences in National Yang-Ming University, and Taiwan's STS Society, and his work culminated in one of his major publications: A Genealogical History of STS and Its Multiple Constructions.

As an senior scholar of the early years of Taiwan's democratization and newfound intellectual milieu, Fu was also among the pioneers of several new fields in Taiwanese academia, including the study of the relationship between gender, science and medicine. In addition to writing gender commentary for newspaper columns, he also invited key feminists of science studies such as Sandra Harding and Evelyn Keller to Taiwan. From 2002 to 2004 he also participated in the establishment of a new Gender Studies Graduate Institute in Kaohsiung Medical University. Inspired by the works of Michel Foucault, he carried out extensive research of gender and medicine in modern Taiwan for a 2005 book, ranging from late Qing Taiwan (on Dr. MacKay’s religious medicine), colonial Taiwan under Japan, and post-war Taiwan under the influence of the United States. Part of its focus was on the classic issues of competition and complement between midwives and obstetrician-gynecologists in Taiwan's modern history. Fu argued that there is a gender-biased historical structure in Taiwan's OBGYN-related medicine, rooted in Taiwan's colonial modernity and continued later, which can only be broken and reformed by contemporary feminist-oriented movements.

Teaching posts

Personal life

Daiwie Fu has a son Allen Fu with his family in New York City, and Fu now lives with his partner Jui-Ch’i Liu in Danshui of New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Areas of research and activity
  • Science and Technology Studies, Science, technology, and Society, and STS Studies of East Asia.
  • Cultural History of Chinese Science in China's Middle Period (from Tang to Song), including biji Texts and especially Mengxi Bitan.
  • History of Modern Medicine in Taiwan and its Gender/Sexuality Aspects.
  • Gender & Science, and Gender & Medicine.
  • History of postwar Taiwanese intellectuals.
  • Social and political criticisms after the lifting of Taiwan's martial law.
  • Editor-in-Chief, East Asian Science, Technology, and Society –An International Journal'' (EASTS, Quarterly, published by Springer and later by Duke University Press from 2010), 2007 summer to the end of 2012.
  • President, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly on Social Studies, 1988–1992?
  • Editor-in-Chief,Taiwanese Journal for Philosophy & History of Science, 1995–1998.

Selected academic works and social criticisms

Books in social criticisms and edited collections

  • Radical Notes (基進筆記）（1990 in Chineses)
  • The Spaces of Knowledge and Power (知識與權力的空間 )（1990 in Chinese）
  • Knowledge, Power, and Women (知識、權力、與女人)（1993 in Chinese）
  • Three Answers to the What is Science Question (回答科學是什麼的三個答案 )（2006 in Chinese）
  • Kuhn's Critical Reader, co-edited with Chu Yuan-Hong (孔恩評論集) (2001 in Chinese，巨流）
  • Translations: T. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (with Cheng Shude, Wang daohuan）（1985, the newest 4th edition in 2021)

Selected research works

Philosophy of science, and other social studies of Taiwan
  • 1986, Sep., "Problem Domain and Developmental Strategies──a Study on the Logic of Competition and Development of Scientific Programs", Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University, New York, US (Microfilms Inc., Account No. DA 058785. Ann Arbor, MI.)
  • 1989, Jan, "The Dialectic of the History of Positivistic Science as a Discourse: From Enlightenment in the West to Yin Hai-Kuang in Taiwan", Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in SocialStudies, Vol.1, 4, pp. 11–56
  • 1994, “H2O 的一個不可共量史──重論「不可共量性」及其與意義理論之爭”(“A History of Incommensuability for ‘H2O’”)《第四屆美國文學與思想研討會論文選集》，哲學篇，中央研究院歐美所, pp. 95–122。
  • 1995, Sep., “Higher Taxonomy and Higher Incommensurability” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 273–294.
  • 1997, 「百朗森林裡的文字獵人──試讀台灣原住民的漢文書寫」收入《身份認同與公共文化》 ("Words Hunters in the Jungle of BAI-LANG--- A Reading on the Chinese Writings by Taiwan's aborigines", originally published in Con-Temporary magazine, and later published in Oxford Univ. Press HongKong) 陳清橋編，1997，牛津大學出版社。pp. 385–412。
  • 2019,「基進2.0」(“Radicality, 2.0”)《臺灣理論關鍵詞》史書美、梅家玲、廖朝陽、陳東升主編，頁205-217（聯經）
  • 2021, “Kuhn in the humanities and social studies of science”, a General Introduction for the fourth edition of the Taiwanese translation of T. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolution (1962), published by Yuan-Liou, Taipei.

Chinese history of science
  • 1988, June, "A Study on the Historical Development and Transformation of ZHOU-BI （周髀）Research Tradition", Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, new series 18, no.1, pp. 1–41.
  • 1991, May, "Why Did Liu Hui Fail to Derive the Volume of a Sphere?" Historica Mathematica, Vol. 18, pp. 212–238.
  • 1993–4, Nov., “A Contextual and Taxonomic Study on the 'Divine Marvels' and 'Strange Occurrences' in Mengxi Bitan”, Chinese Science, No. 11, pp. 3–35.
  • 1998, July, “On Crossing Taxonomies and Boundaries: A Critical Note on Comparative History of Science and Zhao Youqin’s ‘Optics’”, Taiwanese Journal for Philosophy and History of Science, No. 8, (1996–1997), pp. 103–127.
  • 1999, “On Mengxi Bitan’s [夢溪筆談] World of Marginalities and ‘South-Pointing Needles’: Fragment Translation vs. Contextual Translation” De l’Un au Multiple. De la traduction du Chinois dans les langues Europeennes, edited by Viviane Alleton and Michael Lackner, pp. 175–201, Editions de la Maison de Sciences de l’Homme.
  • 2001, “An Early Geomantic Theory and its Relation to Compass Deviation”, Ch.11.2, History of Science in China Volume, Encyclopedia for History of Science, sponsored by Enciclopedia Italiana and Académie internationale d’histoire des sciences. (Italian version: Storia Della Scienza, Vol.II, Sezione I, La Scienza in Cina, ch.11.2, pp. 119–25.Its English original manuscript is available upon request.)
  • 2007, “The Flourishing of Biji or Pen-Notes Texts and its Relations to History of Knowledge in Song China (960-1279)”, in a special issue “What did it mean to write an Encyclopedia in China?”, pp. 103–130, Hors Serie, Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident, 2007, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes.
  • 2010, “When Shen Gua Encountered the ‘Natural World’--- A Preliminary Discusson on Mengxi Bitan and the Concept of Nature”, eds., by Hans Ulrich Vogel and Günter Dux, in Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective, Brill: Leiden & Boston (2010), pp. 285–309.

Gender and science, gender and medicine in modern Taiwan
  • 1996, April, "Women Scientists in Taiwan and their Current Situations in Science, Gender, and Society"，Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, no. 22, pp. 1–58。
  • 1999, June, "A Feeling for Corn Field in Keller's 'Non-Masculine' Science"，pp. 1–40.
  • 2006, “CS, VBAC, and an Ironic Past in Taiwan’s Obstetrics” in No.2, Gender and Sexuality, pp. 25–41, CGS, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.
  • 2017，"Contemporary multiple evolutions of the ‘medicalization’ thesis and commentaries from gender and social studies of medicine"

Science and technology studies, East Asian STS, genealogy of SSK/STS.
  • 2007, “How far can East Asian STS go?”, position paper, 1st issue of EASTS (East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal), Vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1–14.
  • 2009, “대만의 1세대 남녀 산부인과 의사: 식민지적 의료근대화와 젠더 구조” translated and revised from the SNUH symposium (2nd International Symposium: The First Generation of Native Doctors in East Asian Countries, Seoul National University Hospital) article “Two first-generation Obstetrics-Gynecology doctors in Taiwan: Colonial Medical Modernity and Gender Structure”, 동아시아 1세대 의사들의 생애, pp. 200–57.
  • 2013,「定位與多重越界：回首重看STS與科哲」(Positions and Multiple Boundary-Crossings ---A Reflection on the Relationship between STS and Philosophy of Science)，《科技、醫療與社會》，No. 16. pp. 49–102.
  • 2020, “A genealogical explication on the emergence and constructions of STS: a view from East Asia,” Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 3, no. 1, (pp. 1–11)

Bibliography

References
  1. "East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal". Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
  2. "台灣社會研究季刊". www.taishe.com.tw. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
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