个人简介
邢承吉，哥伦比亚大学历史系博士，德国马普科技史所、德国哥廷根大学访问学者，研究方向为美国思想史、跨国史和全球史、“世界中的美国”。现任南开大学副教授、百名青年学科带头人、博士生导师。其研究方向为美国史、跨国思想史和中美科技史。译有跨国史领域译作一部（浙江大学出版社）。编著美国历史学家前沿访谈系列一部（商务印书馆待刊）。学术写作和公共写作见于《历史研究》、《汉学研究》、World History Studies、 Chinese Studies in History、《读书》、《全球史评论》、H-Net, MPIWG Observation Series, 《澎湃》、《文汇学人》、《东方历史评论》等刊。
目前正在修改基于其博士论文出发、围绕中华教育文化基金董事会的中美思想史/科技史的中英文书稿，并构思关于美国民主悖论的下一本研究论著。在南开大学，邢老师开设有美国史和科技史领域本科生专业选修课程“跨国史前沿文献阅读”、“19世纪美国史”、“中外科技交流史”（合开）、本科生新生研讨课、研究生专业英语与史料选读等课程。在学术活动方面，她兼任中国美国史研究会外事小组成员、云里天下学术顾问团成员。
Sally Chengji Xing (PhD, Columbia University) is an associate professor of History at Nankai University, where she teaches transnational and global history as well as US history. She used to be Richard Hofstadter Fellow at Columbia University (where she obtained PhD in 2023), visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) as well as a visiting professor at the University of Göttingen. Her scholarly work has been published in academic journals in China, Taiwan and the US; she is also active in public history writings on topics of US history in China. Her research about the China Foundation and Sino-American intellectual conversations about science has been sponsored by the Tokyo Foundation, The Society for Historians of American Foreign Affairs, the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Rockefeller Archive Center, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, MPIWG, BMBF sponsored “worldmaking project”, Columbia University in the City of New York and Nankai University. She is now revising her book manuscript that examines Chinese science in the republican period in the framework of transnational intellectual history and global knowledge production of science. She is also developing a second research project about how Chinese intellectuals in the twentieth century imagined American republicanism, democracy and egalitarianism for its own sake of nation-building and modernization purpose.
教育背景
Ph.D., US history, Columbia University (2023)
MPhil., US History, Columbia University (2019)
M.A., US History, Columbia University (2018)
M.A., US History, Peking University 北京大学历史系 (2015)
B.A., Tsinghua University 清华大学历史系(2013)
工作经历
Visiting fellow, the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, UK (summer, 2026)
MPIWG visiting postdoctoral fellow, Berlin, Germany (Aug-Sep 2025)
Visiting Professor, University of Göttingen,Göttingen, Germany(May-July, 2025)
南开大学历史学院副教授、博士生导师、百名青年学科带头人
MPIWG visiting fellow, Berlin, Germany (May-Nov 2023)
Graduate teaching fellow, Columbia University, NYC, US (2017-2022)
Richard Hofstadter fellow, Columbia University, NYC, US (2016-2021)
Graduate teaching fellow, Purdue University, Indiana, US (2015-2016)
进展中的书稿计划BOOK PROJECTS- IN PROGRESS
1.First book project: Seeking Modernization out of the Chinese Soil: Chinese Columbianites and the Work of the China Foundation (based on my dissertation at Columbia in 2023: PACIFIC CROSSINGS——The China Foundation and a Negotiated Translation of American Science to China, 1913-1949). The research of this book project in China, Taiwan and the United States has been kindly funded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR’s Bemis Dissertation Research Grant), the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research (SYLFF fellowship and SRA fellowship), the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Rockefeller Archive Center, the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Research Fellowship), Richard Hofstadter Fellowship, the GSAS International Travel Fellowship and numerous other fellowships of Columbia University.
2.书稿：《跨国视域下的中华教育文化基金会与中美思想交流》(to be submitted)
3.编著：《实践历史学》（北京：商务印书馆，即将出版）
4.Second book project (English): Democracy, Inequality and Chinese Readings of America.
学术研究发表 （加粗部分为当前研究代表作）
1.Sally Chengji Xing, “China Foundation, Sponsoring Pure Sciences in China since 1924”, currently in peer review process.
2.Sally Chengji Xing, “What if We Transnationalize US Intellectual History?”, invited book chapter, enclosed in Paul Kramer eds., Transnationalize US History, Palgrave MacMillan.
3.Sally Chengji Xing, “Chinese Columbianites in the China Foundation”, special issue, currently in peer review process.
4.Forthcoming, Sally Chengji Xing, “China Initiative, the New Chinese Exclusion? An Observation”,MPIWG Observation Series.
5.Sally Chengji Xing, “(book review) New Interpretation of the American Revolution in China”, in peer review process.
6.Chengji Xing, Peer-Review Article, “Hu Shi, Jiang Menglin and The Rise of the Wilsonianism in China Near the End of WWI”, Chinese Studies 《汉学研究》, Vol. 44, No.1, 2026.
7. Chengji Xing, Peer-Review Article, “Madman and Sage: The ‘Two Toms Paradox’ of the Early Republic”, World History Studies, Vol. 11, No.1, June 2024.
8.Sally Chengji Xing, “(book review) Latest Book on the Rockefeller Foundation in China”, Chinese Studies in History (A&HCI),DOI:10.1080/00094633.2024.2369037.
9.接收待刊：邢承吉主编：《实践历史学》，商务印书馆。
10.接收待刊：邢承吉译，马雪松：《敘事中的天花》，《全球史评论》。
11.邢承吉：《档案与叙事——围绕中华教育文化基金董事会的多国探索》），《澎湃·上海书评》，2024年4月。
12.Sally Chengji Xing, PhD Dissertation: “PACIFIC CROSSINGS: The China Foundation and the Negotiated Translation of American Science to China, 1913-1949” (Columbia University in the City of New York, 2023)”,220 pages, Columbia University, DOI: https://doi.org/10.7916/pax4-tr49
13.邢承吉：《纽约晨边高地的今昔》，《读书》，2025年五月。
14.Sally Chengji Xing, Review of Wu Lin-chun, “China and the United States: Business, Technology and Networks, 1914-1941”, H-Diplo.
15.邢承吉：《评戴维·霍林格的〈异域的新教徒〉》，《全球史评论》，2020年八月。
16.邢承吉：《脆弱的共识——由马克·里拉谈美国的“身份政治”》，《读书》，2020年第五期。
17.邢承吉：《改革的年代与“分裂的美国”》 ，《读书》，2019年七月。
18.邢承吉：《被边缘化的“常识先生”:跨国视野下的潘恩与美国革命》，《历史研究》，2019年04期。
19.邢承吉：《“世界中的美国”》，《读书》，2019年第一期。
20.邢承吉：《方纳教授在哥大历史系的日子》，《读书》，2018年第九期。
21.邢承吉、滕凯炜译，入江昭：《全球史与跨国史：过去，现在和未来》，浙江大学出版社，2018年版 。
22.邢承吉：《他们是发不出声音的人:评科尔森·怀特黑德的〈地下铁道〉》)，《读书》，2017年十月。
23.邢承吉：《重溯美利坚的观念世界： 一七七六至一七八七》，《读书》，2017年四月。
24.邢承吉：《“幸运之家”的“幸”与不幸》，《读书》，2015年第十期。
25.邢承吉：《评入江昭的〈跨国史与全球史〉》，《全球史评论》，2015年六月。
26.邢承吉： 《镜像中的自我——一八三五年版《论美国的民主》在美国的反响》，《北京大学研究生学志》，2014年刊。
公共写作（访谈、总结、社论、会议纪要等）
1.Xing, Motherhood Interview, 文汇报，March 8, 2021.
2.Xing, Learning US history at Columbia University, 文汇报，September, 2020. (云里阅天下转载) （邢承吉：在哥伦比亚大学历史系通过美国历史博士资格考试的经历. ）
3.Xing, Reading Experiences, Interviewed by 三联出版社, July, 2019.（邢承吉：高强度的学术训练让我学会享受阅读）
4. Xing, “A Note on Eric Foner’s Retirement Conference at Columbia University”, Yali 雅理, 2017. （邢承吉：“人民的历史学家”：方纳教授荣休研讨会侧记）
5.Xing, Reading Introduction to Richard Hofstadter and Ira Katznelson, Yali雅理, 2017. （邢承吉：他是美国最伟大的历史学家，是哥大历史系永不消散的灵魂）
6.Xing, “American Political History Still in Trend”, Yali 雅理, 2016. （邢承吉：尚未过时的精英政治史与大部头的历史叙事）
7.Xing, Report of AHA annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia, AHRAC,2016.（邢承吉：我参加美国历史学家组织年会，来自亚特兰大现场的报道）
8. Xing,《我们的孩子》是思考中国社会流动性问题的一个契机，《奴隶社会》,2018 (阅读量8万+）.
9.Xing, “The Story of One-Dollar Bill”, The Paper 澎湃, 2015. （ 邢承吉：总统夫人比总统更值钱：一美元纸币背后的故事）
10.Xing, “Felony or Not? Commentary on Hillary Clinton’s Email Investigation”, Zhongguoqingnianbao 中国青年报, 2015. （邢承吉：是美前“第一夫人”犯下重罪还是信息监控过于膨胀？）
11.Xing, interview with Dr. Nicholas Sambaluk, Wenhuibao 文汇报, March, 2020. （访谈：尼克·萨姆巴拉克：技术令过去不可能的研究成为可能）
12.Xing, Interview with Jane Hunter, “Feminism and Transnational History”, the Paper 澎湃, February, 2020. （访谈：孔达珍谈跨国经历与女性主义）
13.Xing, Interview with Sharon Ann Holt, “We are Full Human Beings”, Wenhuibao 文汇报, 408 Issue, October, 2019. （访谈：“我们是完整的人”：访谈美国史学者莎伦·安·霍尔特教授）
14.Xing, Interview with Alice Kessler-Harris, “History Empowers Women”, Wenhuibao 文汇报, July, 2019. （访谈Alice Kessler-Harris教授：历史让女性更强大）
15.Xing, Interview with Hannah Farber, “Viewing the Atlantic History and the Latest Trends of Early American History through Political Economy”, the Paper 澎湃, March, 2019. （访谈：汉娜·法伯谈从保险产业看“中观层面的大西洋史”）
16.Xing, Interview with Martha Howell, “The Battle of the American Female Historians”, The Oriental Historical Review 东方历史评论, September, 2018. （访谈：美国女性历史学家的“战斗”）
17.Xing, Interview with Dr. Lawrence Mykytiuk, American History Studies (Digital) 美国研究, November, 2018. （访谈：听普渡大学图书管理员谈资源利用与信息素养）
18.Xing, Interview with Akira Iriye on Transnational and Global History, The Paper 澎湃, March 4, 2018. （访谈：入江昭谈跨国史与全球史：我坚信文化能够培育国际主义）
19.Xing, Interview with Michael Zuckerman, The Paper 澎湃, November 11, 2017. （访谈：迈克尔·朱克曼谈对美国革命影响与意义的重新解读）
20.Xing, Interview with Eric Foner, the Oriental Historical Review 东方历史评论, March, 2017. （访谈：埃里克·方纳：知识分子就是局外人，不应成为政府体系的一部分 ）
在历史学院主持学术活动
1. 南开大学历史学院“青年学者对谈”（南和志教授）：Doing US history outside the US，a Conversation with Dr. Kazushi Minami (Osaka University) 《在美国之外研究美国史：对话大阪大学南和志教授》，南开大学历史学院127，2024年5月20日。
2. 南开大学历史学院“南开史学名人讲座”（夏多明教授），《微观史与全球史：晚明基督教中的权力互动研究》，2024年12月19日。
3.南开大学历史学院“南开史学名人讲座”（张信教授），《为何寓于“地方”? The Global in the Local》，南开大学历史学院127,2025年9月18日。
受邀报告
1.June 12, 2025, 'Pacific Crossings: American Influence and the China Foundation as a Sponsor of Chinese Science', Skyline Hill Center and University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
2.“Pacific Crossings-Chinese Columbianites who Introduced the American Knowledge of Wilsonianism, Education and Science to China”, Osaka University (Osaka, Japan), 2025. 1. 17.
3.July 27, 2023: “Teaching Applied Sciences or Research Pure Sciences? ”, MPIWG, Berlin.
4.July 13,2023: “Pacific Crossings: The China Foundation and a Negotiated Translation of American Sciences to China, 1913-1949”, Göttingen University, Göttingen.
5.March 27, 2023: New York, Boston, Nanjing and Kunming: Archival Explorations for the China Foundation story, Wuhan University History Department, Wuhan (Chinese)
6.April 29, 2021, PACIFIC CROSSINGS: Paul Monroe, the China Foundation and the American Quest to shape Modern China in Its Image, 1913-1949”, Shanghai Normal University (Chinese). 7.April 3, 2021, PACIFIC CROSSINGS: the Chinese Students/Scholars at Columbia and the China Foundation, Wuhan University (Chinese).
8.November 10, 2020, “PACIFIC CROSSINGS: Paul Monroe, John Dewey, and the American Quest to shape Modern China in Its Image, 1913-1949”, Nankai University, Tianjin (Chinese).
9.July 2, 2018: “Madman and Sage”: the “Two Toms paradox” of the Early Republic” Nankai University History Department (Chinese).
10.June 28, 2018, “Madman and Sage”: the “Two Toms paradox” of the Early Republic”, Wuhan University History Department (Chinese).
11.Nov. 2017: “John Dewey’s visit to China” (guest lecture, moderated by Professor Casey Blake), Columbia University, Pupin Hall, New York.
12.July, 2017: “Prince and Pauper”: Reevaluating the two Toms of Revolutionary America, Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine”, Berkeley Hall of Jefferson Library, Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia.
大会报告
1.Upcoming, “Chinese Students in the US and the Chinese Exclusion Act”, OAH annual conference (Philadelphia), panel presentation, April, 2026.
2.“Chinese Exclusionism Now and Then”, “Identity, Ignorance, and the Politics of the Self” , Göttingen University, May 21, 2025.
3.“Chinese Columbianites” and the Lineage of Sino-American Intellectual Exchanges through the China Foundation Network, The 19th International Conference on the History of Cultural Exchange: Cultural Collision and Misunderstanding, Taipei: 辅仁大学，2024年11月29日。
4.“Tragedy of Disappointment”: The Rise and Fall of Wilsonianism in China”,“华工与一战”国际学术研讨会，青岛山海酒店，2024年11月15日。
5.“Chinese Columbianites and the China Foundation”, MPIWG, Sep. 12, 2024.
6. “美国革命以降的“两个汤姆的悖论”与中国知识界对这一问题的认识”南开大学历史学院，Sep. 11, 2024.
7.“Madman and Sage, two Toms paradox of the Early Republic,”世界现代化进程中的多元文明互鉴”国际学术研讨会, 南开大学历史学院，Sep. 8, 2024.
8.“Translation of Scientific Terminologies in China and India: Reconsider the Entry of India and China into the Global Production of Scientific Knowledge”, HNT conference, Graz, Austria (Sep, 2024, program postponed).
9. “Cosmopolitan Geologists and Ding Wenjiang’s Observations of Science in Soviet Russia”, “The System of Science and Democratic and Authoritarian Social Structures in the Twenty-First Century”,MPIWG, March 14, 2024.
10.'Applied Sciences or Pure Sciences: Debates and Negotiations about the Establishment of the China Foundation', in The Making of Epochal Events: Narrating Turning Points in Chinese History”, Heidelberg University, June 16, 2023.
11.“Archival findings of the China Foundation materials in China and the US”, in the Panel, “Language and Historiography: A Roundtable on the Use of Non-English Sources in US Migration History Research”, annual conference of OAH (Organization of American Historians), San Francisco, 2023 (Chaired by Hidetaka Hirota).
12.“中华教育文化基金董事会的创立与发展：一部跨越太平洋的中美思想史”，跨国史视域下的欧美史研究：高端学术论坛，武汉华中师范大学，2023年3月。
13.“中华教育文化基金董事会与中国近代科学的奠基：一部跨越太平洋的中美思想史”，“探索与争鸣杂志社：发明现代——西方近代史中的观念、知识和行动”（线上），2022年11月。
14.June 20, 2021, “Chinese Students in America and their Embrace of Wilsonianism”, in the panel of ““Chinese Exclusion and Chinese Students: The Impact of Xenophobia on U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1882-1943”, SHAFR (Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations) Annual Conference 2021 (chaired by Hidetaka Hirota).
15.January 24, 2021, “PACIFIC CROSSINGS: Paul Monroe, the China Foundation and the American Quest to shape Modern China in Its Image, 1913-1949”, Cornell GHA Colloquium, Cornell University, New York City.
16.October 12, 2019: Conference presentation, “Madman and Sage”: the “two Toms paradox” of the Early Republic”, “Revolutionary Texts in a Digital Age: Thomas Paine’s Publishing Networks, Past and Present”, New Rochelle, New York.
17.April 13, 2018: “Madman and Sage”: the “two Toms paradox” of the Early Republic”, Dissertation Workshop, Columbia University, New York.
18.February 19, 2018: “The Pro-Wilsonian sentiments that predated “the Wilsonian Moment” in China: Reexamining Hu Shi’s Early Experiences in the United States (1910-1916)”, Intellectual and Cultural History Workshop, Columbia University, New York.
19.Oct. 27, 2017: “Embracing Confucius from the United States: Power and Discourse Surrounding Dewey's visit to China, 1919-1921', The Intellectual and Cultural History Workshop, Columbia University, New York.
20.November 2015: “Spreading Modernism and Internationalism: American Missionary Impact on Chinese Modern Education, Centering on Bridgman Academy”, presented at 55th Annual Conference of History of Educational Society (Chaired by Julie A. Reuben, Harvard University), Washington St. Louis, Missouri.
21.Nov. 2014: “‘Long Live the Spirit of Self-determination!’ Writing the May Fourth Incident and Chinese Aspirations for Post-WWI World Order into International History”, presented at the Flagrant Hill International Conference on the Centennial Anniversary of WWI, Beijing.
承担科研项目
1）主持:南开大学校级项目：63243017/跨国史框架下的中基会研究（1913-1949）；63253016/留美知识分子与中美科技交流研究
2）在柏林马普所科技史所Lise Meitner Research Group “China in the Global System of Science”)主持的三个课题：1)PACIFIC CROSSINGS: The China Foundation and a Negotiated Translation of American Science to China, 1913-1949 2) Digitalizing the China Foundation Network (在研)3) Navigating Western Knowledge of Science in China and India: Colonial Encounters and Global Knowledge Production (在研)
3）参与:担任国家社科重大项目“美国民权运动史”课题组成员;担任国家社科重大项目“十九世纪美国工业化转型中的农村、农业与农民问题研究”课题组成员
境外科研经费和学术交流情况：
Visiting Fellow (two months), Needham Institute (Cambridge), postponed to summer, 2026.
Visiting Fellowship (at the rank of “visiting professor for two months), BMBF sponsored, “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China”, Göttingen University, Göttingen, 2025.
Visiting Fellowship (one month), BMBF sponsored, “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China”, Göttingen University, Göttingen, 2023.
Residential Fellowship (six months), Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, May-October, 2023.
GSAS International Travel Fellowship, Columbia University, 2022.
Richard Hofstadter Fellowship, Columbia University (for five consecutive years) 2016-2021.
Research Fellowship, the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Philadelphia, 2020-2021.
Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2020.
Visiting Student, Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History, Taipei, 2020-2021 (postponed due to the pandemic)
Research Fellowship, Rockefeller Archive Center, Tarrytown, NY, 2020.
Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Research Abroad Award, Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, Tokyo, 2020.
Samuel Bemis Dissertation Research Grant, The Society for Historians of American Foreign Affairs, 2019.
Research Fellowship, American Studies Center, Columbia University, 2019.
Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship (SYLFF), Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, 2017, 2018, 2019.
Lead Teaching Fellowship (LTF), Center for Teaching and Learning, Columbia University, the academic year of 2018-2019.
Pre-prospectus Summer Research Grant, History Department, Columbia University, 2016- 2018.
ICJS fellowship, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies in Monticello, Virginia, 2017.
History in Action Award, History in Action Program, the Mellon Foundation, 2017, 2018. G-Zero Fellowship, History Department, Columbia University in the City of New York, 2016.
Presidential Fellowship, Purdue University, Indiana, 2016.
Teaching Fellowship, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2016. Graduate Fellowship, Peking University, Beijing, 2013-2015.
