J.J. Strange- The Birth of Organic Chemistry in Nineteenth-Century China

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J.J. Strange is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She specializes in the history of modern China. Strange discusses the beginnings of, and the difficulty with, translating ideas, words, and concepts in organic chemistry from European languages into Chinese. Her research places Japan as "the bridge between China and the West," a frequent theme in scholarship surrounding the history of science in China, in the periphery.