Engineers and the Two Taiwans: The Abnormal Club

Author:   Kuo-Hui Chang ,  Gary Lee Downey ,  Bono Po-Jen Shih
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Pages:   165
Publication Date:   20 September 2025
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Engineers and the Two Taiwans: The Abnormal Club


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Author:   Kuo-Hui Chang ,  Gary Lee Downey ,  Bono Po-Jen Shih
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:  

9783031597688


ISBN 10:   3031597680
Pages:   165
Publication Date:   20 September 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Abnormal Engineers for an Abnormal Land.- Freelancing around Japanese Infrastructures.- Climbing Mainland Infrastructures.- Animating Two Taiwans.- Two Taiwans in the United States.- The Separation Crosses the Strait.

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Kuo-Hui Chang is a policy researcher focusing on power relations between science, technology, and the state. His PhD in science and technology studies at Virginia Tech followed a master's degree in public policy at National Taipei University. From 2021 to 2022, he served as editor-in-chief of the Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine (STM). His works appear in Engineering Studies, the Korea Journal for History of Science and a number of Chinese journals in Taiwan. Gary Downey is an ethnographic listener committed to engineering studies, STS making & doing, and making visible the connections between knowledge and personhood. Trained as a mechanical engineer (B.S. Lehigh University) and cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. University of Chicago), he is Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and Society and affiliated faculty member emeritus in Women’s and Gender Studies and Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is the (co-)author or co-editor of six books. Bono Po-jen Shih is an interdisciplinary scholar working in the intersection of philosophy, history, and sociology of engineering with an eye on contemporary engagement with engineering education and practice. He currently holds a postdoc appointment with two institutions at Penn State University and earlier was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Science History Institute. Shih earned his PhD and MS in science and technology studies (STS), as well as a graduate certificate in engineering education, from Virginia Tech. He earned his BS in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University.

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