Specialised Theme 9

From Horseback to Space: Technological Progress and Social Development

9 AM-12:15 PM

Yantai Hall, Shandong Hotel

Organizer: Zhang Baichun (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

With the support of the Association of Chinese Historians

Discussant: Zhao Zhijun (Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing)

- Yuan Jing (Chinese Academy of Social Science, Institute of Archaeology):

Research on Early Horse Domestication in China

- Liu Yu (Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing):

Casting Technology and Craft Production of Bronze Wares in the Central Plains of China in Late Shang Dynasty (13th BC-11th BC)

- Marko Nenonen (University of Tampere):

The dichotomy of horse-driven and ox-driven farming – a study of economic geography in eurore before the railways

- Chen Wei (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing):

The Early History of Horseshoe: East and West

- Michael J. Neufeld (National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution):

The Global Proliferation of German Rocket Technology after World War II

- Li Chengzhi (Beihang University, Beijing):

Chinese Manned Spaceflight: Retrospect and Prospect

- Wang Fang (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, CAS, Beijing) and Yury M. Baturin (S.Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences):

The Carvingup of German Rocket Technology by the USSR（1944-1945）

- Olga Zinovieva (Lomonosov Moscow State University):

Communicating Discoveries in Urban Environment: Postmodernism and Science