THE JOINT CENTER FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS
CARBON TECHNOCRACY:
ENERGY REGIMES IN MODERN EAST ASIA
The Center for History and Economics
invites you to mark the publication of Victor Seow’s new book,
Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Please join us for a virtual discussion with the author,
with comments by Paul Sabin (Yale)
Friday, April 22, 2022, 12:00pm EDT / 17:00 BST/ 18.00 CEST
Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia is a study of the deep links between energy extraction and technocratic politics through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine. In delving into the origins of fossil-fueled development in China and Japan, this book unearths both the dominant role of the state in energy transitions toward coal and oil and the enduring reliance on human labor power in the carbon age.
Victor Seow is Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University and a Faculty Associate of the Center for History and Economics.