Prof. Zhang Lei (張雷)
Associate Professor
Tel.: 2616 8347
Fax.: (852) 2467-7478
Email: [email protected]
Location: Room 330, Ho Sin Hang Building 何善衡樓330室
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Urban History; Environmental History; Historical Geography; Modern China
2017: Ph. D. History
Syracuse University, Syracuse, U. S. A
2010: M. A., History
Syracuse University, Syracuse, U. S. A
2008: M. A., Historical Geography
Peking University, Beijing, China
2005: B. S., Geography
Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
[A] Book
1. Lei Zhang, Water Lords: Beijing’s Drinking Water and its Carriers, 1644–1937, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2025.
2. Lei Zhang, Visualizing China through Geography: George B. Cressey and China. Beijing: Academy Press, 2014. [In Chinese]
[B] Edited Book
Lei Zhang, The Interviews of Scholars in Republican Beijing, Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2020. [In Chinese]
[C] Selected Articles
1. Lei Zhang, “Contested Tradition: The Cannonicity of Historical Geography in China, 1921–1961,” Journal of Historical Geography, 89 (September 2025), 113–120.
2. Zhang, Lei, “孤獨的革命：民國豐縣的黨治，1927–1938 (The Alienated Revolution: The Governance of Kuomintang in Feng County, 1927–1938),” 二十一世紀 (Twentieth-First Century, Hong Kong) 205, (October 2024), 8–72.
3. Lei Zhang, “Red or Expert: Reforming Geographers in China, 1949–1953,” Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113:9 (October 2023), 2186–2202.
4. Zhang, Lei, “战中之战：抗戰時期豐縣西北鄉紳的抉擇 (The Alternatives of Local Elites in Northwest Feng County, 1938–1945),” 二十一世紀 (Twentieth-First Century, Hong Kong) 192, (August 2022), 62–78.
5. Lei Zhang, “Urbanizing Camels: Camels in Beijing, 1900–1937,” Journal of Urban History, 48:4 (July 2022), 913–927.
6. Lei Zhang, “Careering and Academic Mobility: George B. Cressey’s China, 1923–1963,” Journal of Historical Geography, 76 (April 2022), 14–22.
7. Zhang, Lei, “丁文江留學考 (The Overseas Training of V. K. Ting, 1902–1911),” 近代史研究 (Modern Chinese History Studies, Beijing), 44: 1 (January 2022), 154–159.
8. Lei Zhang, “Foreign Wells: Japanese Well-Drilling in Beijing, 1900–1910,” Technology and Culture, 61: 2 (April 2020), 416–436.
9. Lei Zhang, “Foreign Ink: Student Mobility, Overseas Training and Chinese Geography, 1912–1952,” Journal of Historical Geography, 68 (April 2020), 44–54.
10. Zhang, Lei, “南胡北黃：民國地理學的分野 (Divisions among Geographers in China, 1936–1952),” 中央研究院近代史研究所集刊 (Bulletin of Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei) 106 (2019), 87–114.
11. Lei Zhang, “A City with Two Water: Drinking Water in Beijing, 1644–1900,” Water History, 9:4 (October 2017), 479–494.
12. Zhang, Lei, “再造徐霞客：民國科學地理學 (Reconstructing Xu Xiake: The Scientific Geography in China, 1912–1949),” 地理學報 (Acta Geographica Sinca, Beijing) 72: 9 (September 2017), 1695–1701.
[D] Book Reviews
1. Book Review: China in one Village by Liang Hong, The Metropole: The Official Blog of the Urban History Association, July 2021.
2. Book Review: Hou Renzhi’s Overseas Manuscripts and Notes, Acta Geographica Sinica 地理學報76, no.3 (2021):765.
3. Book Review: The Interviews of Scholars in Republican Beijing, Guangming Daily, 光明日報 January 21, 2021, p. 11.
[External]
1. Principal Investigator, Night-soil Lords: Manure Collector and Urban Waste Disposal in Beijing, 1900–1950, Early Career Scheme, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, 1/2019–12/2021.
2. Principal Investigator, Water Carriers in Occupied Beijing, 1937–1945, Sumitomo Foundation, Japan, 4/2018–3/2019.
3. Research Grant, D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia, U. S., 2013-2014.
4. Research Grant, Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation, Japan, 2012-2013.
5. Grant-in-Aid, Rockefeller Archive Center, NY, 2012-2013.
6. Research Grant, Princeton University Library, NJ, 2011-2012.
[Internal]
1. Principal Investigator, Feminizing Geography: The Woman Geographers in China, 1909-1952, Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, 12/2024-12/2025.
2. Principal Investigator, Invented Tradition: the canonicity of historical geography discipline in China, 1921-1960, Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, 6/2024-5/2025.
3. Principal Investigator, Peking Camels: The Enterprise of Camels in Beijing, 1750-1950, Direct Fund, Lingnan University, 1/2024-12/2024.
4. Principal Investigator, Lighting Up China: Electric Illumination in China 1879-1949, Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, 11/2023-11/2024.
5. Principal Investigator, American Seeds, Chinese Revolution: The Enterprise of Maize in North China, 1938-1950, Direct Fund, Lingnan University, 1/2023-12/2023.
6. Principal Investigator, Ruling Stockade: The History of a Walled Village in North China, 1861-1966, Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, 12/2022-11/2023.
7. Principal Investigator, The War within a War: The Occupied Politics in Feng County, 1938-1945, Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, 11/2021-11/2022.
8. Principal Investigator, Feeding Revolution: The Corn in North China, 1938-1950, Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, 5/2021-5/2022.
9. Principal Investigator, Geography and Geographers in China, 1911-1950, Lam Woo Research Fund, Lingnan University, 7/2020-7/2022.
10. Principal Investigator, Visualizing China through Geography: Western Geographers in China, 1911-1950, Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, 5/2020-4/2021.
11. Principal Investigator, Urbanizing Camel: Peking Camels, 1800-1950, Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, 6/2019-12/2020.
12. Principal Investigator, Foreign Ink: Chinese Overseas Students of Geography, 1926-1952, Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, 12/2018-11/2019.
13. Principal Investigator, Foreign Water: Japanese Well-Drilling in Beijing, 1900-1910, Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, 1/2018-3/2019.
2025: Foreign Wells: Japanese Well Drilling in Beijing, 1900-1910，Institute of Historical Geography, Peking University, Beijing, May 29.
2025: Lost Translators: The Guides in Geological and Geographical Expeditions to China, 1868-1909, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan, May 22.
2024: “The Overseas Training of V. K. Ting, 1902-1911”, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, April 1.
2023: “The Divisions of Historical Geography in China, 1919-1937”, Advanced Institute for Confucian Studies, Shandong University, Jinan, November 29.
2023: “Foreign Wells in Beijing, 1900-1910”, Centre for Studies of Song History, Hebei University, Baoding, May 19.
2022: “The Occupied Politics of a Walled Village in North China, 1938-1945”, Confucius Institute, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, November 19.
2020: “Urbanizing Camels: Camels in Beijing, 1900-1937”, Department of History, Minzu University of China, Beijing, October 17.
2019: “The Returning Students of Geography in China, 1912-1952”, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Nov. 14.
2015: “Drinking Water in Beijing, 1644-1900”, East Asia Program, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, (Nov. 11)
2015: “Visualizing China through Geology: Chamberlin and His Expedition to China, 1909,” Invited by Asian Studies program and Library, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, (March 25)
2012: “Visualizing China through Geography: George B. Cressey and His China, 1923-1963,” Department of Geography Colloquium, Syracuse University, (March 9)
2024: “Invented Tradition: The Lineage of Historical Geography in China, 1921-1949”, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai (December 21-22)
2023: “Reassessing Hou Renzhi: A Perspective from Geography, 1932-1952”, The Forum of Renzhi, Peking University, Beijing (December 3)
2021: “Toilet Revolution: The Politics of Excrement in Beijing, 1928-1937”, The Sixth Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH 2021), Kyoto University, Japan, (September 4-5, Virtual Event)
2021: “The Returning Students of Geography in China, 1912-1952”, The Biennial Conference of Chinese Historical Geography, Fudan University, Shanghai (July 17-18)
2021: “National Port, Local Town: The Railroad of Longhai in Haizhou, 1925-1938”, Symposium: New Perspectives on the Railway and Urban History, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (April 27)
2019: “Urbanizing Camel: Peking Camels, 1800-1937”, The Fifth Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH 2019), National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, (October 24-27)
2018: “Drinking Water in Beijing, 1644-1900”, The Biennial Conference of Chinese Historical Geography, Renmin University, Beijing (August 11-12)
2015: “Foreign Wells: Japanese well drilling in Beijing, 1900-1910”, International Graduate Historical Studies Conference, Central Michigan University, MI, (March 27)
2012: “Rediscovering another space in Beijing: Water distribution territories, 1900-1950”, Placing East Asia: A Graduate Student Conference on Urbanism and the Production of Space, Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, CA, (March 2)
2011: “Water Carriers in Beijing, 1900-1938”, Brown Bag Talk, Firestone Library, Princeton University, NJ, (May 20)
2010: “Dynasty and Cult: The God of the Grand Canal in China, 1368-1911”, The Fourteenth Annual New Frontiers Graduate History Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, (February 19)
1. RGC Competitive Grants Award, Research & KT Excellence Awards, Lingnan University, 2019
2. Short-term Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2016-2017
3. Short-term Fellowship, Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2016-2017