Ren Jie

Ren Jie, male, lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Foreign Languages, China Jiliang University, Ph.D.

He is mainly engaged in the research and teaching on history and culture of metrology. He is also interested in the fields of physics history, astronomy history, science and technology social history, history of science and technology, and philosophy of science and technology.

He graduated from Tianjin University with a major in applied physics. In 2007, he entered Shanghai Jiaotong University, studying under Professor Guan Zengjian. In 2013, he graduated from the School of History and Culture of Science, Shanghai Jiaotong University and obtained a doctor degree of Science.

Previous and current courses include undergraduate courses “The Culture of Metrology”, “World History of Metrology”, “History of Metrological Culture”, “Practical Writing”, “Talent Studies”, and Postgraduate Course “History of Metrology” and “History of Thought in Science and Technology”.

paper:

A Discussion on the Time Systems in Qin and Han Dynasties. Studies in the History of Natural Sciences, 2009, 28(4): 454-464.

Reasons for the Failure of the Program for the Foundation of a National Metrology System of Time in the Academia Sinica in 1930s. Journal of SJTU (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2012, 20(4): 68-75.

The Development of Standard Time in China in the early years of the 20^th Century. The Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology, 2014, 35(2): 138-146.

A Preliminary Study on the Process of Chinese Understanding on Equation of Time. Journal of Dialectics of Nature, 2018, 40(2): 72-78.

Program:

Zhejiang Provincial Social Science Association Provincial Social Science Academic Publications Funding Project (No. 2015CBB04): Historical Research on Time Metrology in Modern China (Finished)

Youth Project of Humanities and Social Sciences Research of the Ministry of Education (18YJC770028): Research on Transoceanic Stars Metrology Based on Simulated Observations and Sky Reduction Methods (In Progress)

Monograph:

The "Historical Research on Time Metrology in Modern China" was published in 2015 by Hua Mulan Culture Publishing House of Xinbei. In 2016, the book won the Youth Book Award on the History and Philosophy of Science from Tsinghua University (the only winner of the year).