Prof. Zuoyue Wang, 
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 
zywang@csupomona.edu; http://www.csupomona.edu/~zywang

"A Transnational History of Chinese/American Physicists"

As part of a broader project on "Chinese/American Scientists: Transnational 
Science during the Cold War and Beyond,'' this paper examines the movements 
of American-trained Chinese physicists following the founding of the 
People's Republic of China in 1949. While a majority of these physicists 
chose to stay in the US (the "stayees''), a number went back to China in the 
1950s (the "returnees'') against many obstacles during the McCarthy era. 
After the reopening of US-China relations in the 1970s, the two groups 
joined hands in promoting China-US scientific and educational exchanges, 
leading eventually to the coming to the US of a new generation of Chinese 
physics students and the return to China of some of the original "stayees. " 
This transnational history of Chinese/American physicists aims to illustrate 
the nature and extent of the Americanization of international science and 
the internationalization of American science in the post-World War II era.