2025年台灣科技與社會研究學會博士論文獎,優等。Taiwan Science, Technology and Society Association PhD Dissertation Award. Excellent Award. 2025.
The D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science in East Asia. Dissertation Fellowship. 2023. September 2023—August 2024.
財團法人蔣經國國際學術交流基金會博士論文獎學金(婉拒)。Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Students Abroad. 2023. September 2023—August 2024. (Decline).
中華民國教育部108年公費留學獎學金。Ministry of Education. Scholarship of Government Sponsorship for Overseas Study. 2019. September 2020—August 2023.
2019年台灣科技與社會研究學會碩士論文獎,優等。Taiwan Science, Technology and Society Association Master’s Thesis Award. Excellent Award. 2019.
專長
中醫藥學、戰後中醫藥學史、科技與社會研究
學術著作
學術著作PUBLICATION
Book and Book articles
Po-Hsun Chen. 2024. The Return of NRICM101 to Taiwan: The Contributions of an Herbal Formula to Both COVID-19 Treatment and Nationalism. In Ming-Cheng M. Lo, Michael Liu, Yu-Yueh Tsai eds, Taiwan’s COVID-19 Experience: Governance, Governmentality, and the Global Pandemic. London: Routledge, pp. 227-247. DOI: 10.4324/9781003438380-15
Po-Hsun Chen. 2022. The Hospital of a Hundred Years—Tainan Hospital. The Fragrance of Herbs—The Traditional Chinese Medicinal Pharmacy. Yaoqian: Medical Fortunes in Tainan. In Hsiu-Yun Wang edited, Discovering Medical Tainan. Tainan: Center for Society, Technology, and Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, December, pp. 6-9, 58-61, 70-73. ISBN: 9786267227039.
Po-Hsun Chen and Tin Hang Hung. 2025. “Fair Enough?—Scientific and Historic Perspectives on Sex Controversies at the Paris 2024 Olympics.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal19 (1): 115–23. doi:10.1080/18752160.2025.2454829. (SSCI, Q2)
Po-Hsun Chen. Book review. Yan Liu, Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 16(2): 259-262, DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2021.1992577 (SSCI)
陳柏勳,〈現代中國血肉有情藥品的眾生相:評Chee, Liz P. Y. (2021). Book Review: Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China. Durham: Duke University Press〉,《科技、醫療與社會》,2021,第33期,頁203-211。(TSSCI & THCI core)
International Conference papers & presentations
Po-Hsun Chen. “National Acupuncture Policy in the Cold War.” The 5th World Congress of Taiwan Studies. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. 2025/5/21-23.
Po-Hsun Chen. “Stimulated by Acupuncture Anesthesia: Scientization and Institutionalization of Acupuncture Research in Cold War Taiwan.” The 98th annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine. Boston, MA, USA. 2025/5/1-4.
Po-Hsun Chen. “Validating Chinese medicine and nationhood scientifically by monkeys: Taiwan’s acupuncture researches in the Cold War.” The 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2024/7/16-19.
Po-Hsun Chen. “Tackling Modern Industrial Toxicants with Traditional Medicines: Chinese Medical Therapy Project for PCBs Poisonings in the Post-WWII Taiwan.” 2024 Annual Conference of The Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, Washington, USA. 2024/3/14-17.
Po-Hsun Chen. “ ‘Herbal Medicine May Not Be Without Risk’: Chinese Herbal Nephropathy Worldwide and Alternative Regulation in Taiwan.” In “Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society,” an international conference, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 2024/3/7-9.
Po-Hsun Chen. “Nationalistic Herb Product in Self-Help Medicine in Taiwan During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” 2023 4S, Honolulu, Hawai’I, USA, 2023/11/8-11.
Po-Hsun Chen. “New Medicine in Cold War: Innovating Chinese Medical Theory in cultural policies for Nation-Building in Taiwan.” 2nd Conference of the International Academy of the History of Science. Athens, Greece, 2023/9/12-15.
Po-Hsun Chen. “Negotiating Toxicities with herbs for the Nation-state in Taiwan after Second World War.” The 16th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia. Frankfurt am Main, Germany,2023/8/21-25.
Po-Hsun Chen. “Treating Environmental Toxicants and Social Instability by Chinese Medicine in Taiwan in the 1980s.” The 96th annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. 2023/5/11-14.
Po-Hsun Chen. “Negotiating Herbal Toxicity for Modern Imaginaries of Diasporic Chinese Countries: Controversies of Herbal Toxicities in Taiwan and Singapore after World War II.” In “How to make China part of Global History Research?” Spring School at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg. Germany. 2023/3/7-10.
Po-Hsun Chen. “Numbering Herbal Toxicity for Nations and Infants in Singapore and Taiwan after World War II.” 2022 4S-ESOCITE, Cholula, Mexico. 2022/12/7-10.
Po-Hsun Chen. “Bitter Herb to Newborn Babies and New Nations: Tackling the Toxicity of Huang- Lian (Rhizoma Coptidis) in Singapore and Taiwan after World War II.” Oxford International History of East Asia Seminar. Online. 2022/2/2.
Po-Hsun Chen. “Medicine in Cultural Policy: Rejuvenating Chinese Medicine during Taiwan’s Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement (1966-1991).” 2022 Annual Conference of The Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii. Online, USA. 2022/3/24-27。
Po-Hsun Chen (2022, Jan). “The Trilemma of NRICM101 in Taiwan: The Confrontation of Culture and Risk Governance for Applying Herbal Medicine During Epidemic.” 「COVID-19全球與台灣治理」(COVID-19 Governance in the Globe and Taiwan), Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica. Taipei.
Invited Speeches & Seminars
Po-Hsun Chen (2024, June). “Bidirectional Demonstration of Joseph Needham’s Taiwan Visit in 1984.” The Needham Research Institute Easter Term seminar. Cambridge, UK. 2024/06/14.
Po-Hsun Chen (2024, June). “Chinese Medicine or Taiwanese Medicine: Pandemic, Regulations, and Taiwan’s Nationhood.” Oxford Taiwan Reading Group, Oxford, UK. 2024/06/06.
Po-Hsun Chen (2024, April). “Alternative Hygienic Modernity: Chinese Medical Therapy Project for Industrial Pollution in Cold War Taiwan.” The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. 2024/4/11.
Po-Hsun Chen. “Demonstrating the Sinicised Taiwan: Joseph Needham’s Visit to Taiwan in 1984.” Oxford International History of East Asia Seminar, Oxford University, UK. 2023/11/29.