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Thomas S. Mullaney

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Thomas Shawn Mullaney (born 1978) is an American sinologist. He is a Guggenheim fellow.[1] He is professor of History at Stanford University, working on technology, race, and ethnicity in China.[2][3][4][5][6]

Mullaney received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 2006 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification and Scientific Statecraft in Modern China, 1928-1954," under the supervision of Madeleine Zelin.[7][8]

His dissertation became the basis of his first book, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China, which received the 2011 American Historical Association Pacific Branch Award for “Best First Book on Any Historical Subject.” Benedict Anderson wrote a foreword for the book.[9] His 2017 book The Chinese Typewriter: A History won the John K. Fairbank Prize, the Lewis Mumford Award, and Honorable Mention by the Joseph Levenson Book Prize.[10][11] In 2006, Mullaney joined the faculty of Stanford as assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2012, and to full professor in 2019.

Education

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Selected publications and exhibitions

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Monographs

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  • Coming to terms with the nation: ethnic classification in modern China, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-520-26278-2
  • The Chinese typewriter: a history, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0-262-03636-8
  • With Rea, Christopher G. (2022), Where research begins: choosing a research project that matters to you (and the world), University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-81735-4
  • The Chinese computer: a global history of the information age, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024, ISBN 978-0-262-04751-7

Museum exhibitions

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Edited volumes and special issues

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  • With Leibold, James; Gros, Stéphane; Bussche, Eric Vanden, eds. (2012), Critical Han studies: the history, representation, and identity of China's majority, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-984-59098-8
  • The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China. Stanford University Press, 2019.
  • With Peters, Benjamin; Hicks, Mar; Philip, Kavita, eds. (2021), Your computer is on fire, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-53973-9

Awards and honors

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References

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  1. ^ "Thomas S. Mullaney". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  2. ^ "Thomas Mullaney | Department of History". history.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  3. ^ Aeon, Thomas S. Mullaney (2016-09-14). "America's Secret Cold War Mission to Build the First Chinese Computer". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  4. ^ "Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  5. ^ Crichton, Danny (2021-06-29). "The engineering daring that led to the first Chinese personal computer". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  6. ^ "How a solitary prisoner decoded Chinese for the QWERTY keyboard | Psyche Ideas". Psyche. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  7. ^ Mullaney, Thomas (2011). Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China. University of California Press. pp. xxi.
  8. ^ Mullaney, Thomas (2006). Coming to Terms with the Nation: ethnic classification and scientific statecraft in mondern China, 1928-1954 (Thesis).
  9. ^ "Google Books". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ "John K. Fairbank Prize Recipients | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  11. ^ "AAS 2019 Book Prizes | H-Asia | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  12. ^ "What's On – Museum of Chinese in America". Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  13. ^ Breiner, Andrew (2021-09-24). "Kluge Center Welcomes New Chairs in Residence | Insights". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  14. ^ Foundation, Mellon. "New Directions Fellowships Recipients". Mellon Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  15. ^ "Stanford historian wins prize for work at intersection of history, technology | Stanford Humanities Center". shc.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-21.