Victor Seow
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Victor Seow

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Victor Seow is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. A historian of technology, science, and industry, he specializes in China and Japan in their global contexts and in histories of energy and work.

He is the author of Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022), an exploration of the relationship between energy and power through the history of the region's once-largest coal mine. Carbon Technocracy won several awards in different fields, including the Association for Asian Studies' John Whitney Hall Book Prize, the Chinese Historians in the United States' Academic Excellence Award, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations' Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History.

In 2025, his work was recognized with the Sarton Prize for the History of Science from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Website: seow. scholars. harvard. edu
Bluesky: @EastAsiaSciTech. bsky. social
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    • Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute)
    • By: Victor Seow
    • Narrated by: Jim Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-23
    • Language: English
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