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<a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">sts</font></a><a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">@hks.harvard.edu</font></a><font color="#000000"> by 5pm
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<div class="mimepart text html" style="min-height:1em"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:medium"><b>Abstract: </b></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><font>What is the relationship between
energy and the making of modern states?</font><font> </font><font>What kinds of politics and publics do carbon-based economies engender?</font><font> </font><font>This talk draws upon my ongoing research on the history of the fossil fuel industry in Northeast
China – a region once commonly called Manchuria – in the first half of the twentieth century in an attempt to offer responses to those questions.</font><font> </font><font>Focusing on Fushun, the “coal capital” that once boasted the largest coal mining operations
in East Asia, I examine the efforts by multiple states – namely the Japanese imperial, Chinese Nationalist, and Chinese Communist – to master and manage this site of extraction, and the way in which Fushun coal as an energy resource featured in developmental
statist imaginaries both constituted and challenged by ideas about scarcity, autarky, and the industrial modern.</font><font> </font><font>Through this, I set out to make a case for the co-production of caloric and political power in the rise of technocratic
regimes in transwar East Asia.</font></font></div>
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<div class="mimepart text html" style="min-height:1em"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:medium"><b>Biography: </b></span><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size:medium"> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><font>Victor
Seow is a graduate student in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard.</font><font> </font><font>He specializes in the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century China, with interests in energy and the environment, technology and society, business and
labor, and state power.</font><font> </font>He is currently completing his dissertation on the history of coal mining and the fossil fuel industry in Northeast China in the first half of the twentieth century, and will be joining Cornell as Assistant Professor
of Modern Chinese History in Fall 2014.</font></div>
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