From Native Pesticides to Chinese Medicine Agriculture: Traditional Chinese Agricultural Knowledge in the 1950s and Today

Sigrid Schmalzer is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches Chinese history and the history of science. Her publications include The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China (Chicago, 2008), Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (Chicago, 2016), and a children's picture book on the insect scientist Pu Zhelong titled, Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean (Tilbury House, 2018). She is a founding member of the Critical China Scholars group and the revitalised Science for the People, and a vice-president in her faculty union.