Faculty Profiles - PELZER Thorben | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Thorben PELZER

PhD in Chinese History
Leipzig University, 2022

Assistant Professor
Division of Humanities

(852) 2358 8908
pelzer@ust.hk
Room 3351
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ORCID

0000-0001-5039-3779

Scopus ID

58865871600

Research Interest Publications Teaching Assignment

Research Interest

Chinese history
Chinese social and economic history
History of Sino-US relations
Science and technology studies

Publications

All Years 4 2026 0 2025 2 2024 1 2023 1 2022 0 2021 0

2025 2

Engineering Societies in China: Spaces of Professionalization and Participation, 1912–1949

East Asian Science, Technology and Society
Pelzer, Thorben
Article

Engineers on the Move: Elite Geographic Mobility in Republican China

Twentieth-Century China, v. 50, (1), p. 25-55, article number 950426
Pelzer, Thorben
Article

2024 1

Enter the Pragmatic Engineer: Ling Hongxun at Jiaotong University, 1920–1927

History of Education, v. 53, (2), p. 256-280
Pelzer, Thorben
Article

2023 1

Engineering Trouble: US-Chinese Experiences of Professional Discontent, 1905-1945

Pelzer, Thorben
Book

Article 2

Engineering Societies in China: Spaces of Professionalization and Participation, 1912–1949

East Asian Science, Technology and Society
Pelzer, Thorben

Engineers on the Move: Elite Geographic Mobility in Republican China

Twentieth-Century China, v. 50, (1), p. 25-55, article number 950426
Pelzer, Thorben

Article 1

Enter the Pragmatic Engineer: Ling Hongxun at Jiaotong University, 1920–1927

History of Education, v. 53, (2), p. 256-280
Pelzer, Thorben

Book 1

Engineering Trouble: US-Chinese Experiences of Professional Discontent, 1905-1945

Pelzer, Thorben

No Publications

Teaching Assignment

2025-26 Spring 1 2025-26 Winter 0 2025-26 Fall 0 2024-25 Summer 0 2024-25 Spring 0 2024-25 Winter 0

HUMA1678

Introduction to Digital Humanities & AI

No Teaching Assignments