Qiao Yu
Work Experience
Aug 2013 – Dec 2019: Capital Normal University, School of History, Lecturer
Jan 2020 – Present: Capital Normal University, School of History, Associate Professor
Education Background
Sep 2007 – Jul 2013: Peking University, Department of History, World History, Ph.D. in History
Sep 2003 – Jul 2007: Capital Normal University, World History Pilot Program, Department of History, B.A. in History
Foreign Languages School, Department of English Language and Literature, Minor, B.A. in Literature
Monograph
Research on Agricultural Development and Environmental Change in Colonial Australia (1788–1901), Social Sciences Academic Press (China), 2024.
Selected Academic Papers
2023, Issue 12, Contemporary World: "The Contemporary Significance and Practical Path of Promoting the Building of a Community of Life for Humanity and Nature"
2023, Issue 5, World History: "Weather Cycles Theory and the Emergence of Modern Meteorology in Australia (1830–1900)"
2020, Issue 4, Journal of the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: "Transoceanic Dissemination of Species and Interaction of Ecological Experiences: The Early Spread of Eucalyptus in China (1890–1920)"
2019, Issue 5, Journal of Capital Normal University (Social Sciences Edition): "Humans and Nature in Australian Historical Writing: Focusing on Colonial Agriculture"
2019, Issue 3, Historiography Quarterly: "The Formation and Evolution of the Irrigation Knowledge Exchange Network in the Mid-to-Late 19th Century"
Research Grants
National Social Science Fund Youth Project: "Research on Agricultural Development and Environmental Change in Colonial Australia (1788–1901)" – Concluded (Excellent Rating)
Beijing Municipal Education Commission Social Science Planning General Project: "Transoceanic Dissemination of Species and Interaction of Ecological Experiences" (Project No.: 202110028013)
Session
This study examines how species native to specific Pacific regions - notably eucalyptus, macadamia nuts, and kiwifruit - spread across the Pacific basin through diverse pathways from the mid-19th to 20th century. Through scientific domestication and selective breeding, these species were systematically adapted to meet environmental conditions and economic demands in their new habitats, thereby integrating both native and introduced ecosystems into global networks of species exchange, commerce, and consumption.
Supported by modern botany and forestry, these species transformed into "plantation biota" - with their reproductive cycles, growth patterns, maturation processes, and biological characteristics progressively overcoming ecological constraints, diverging fundamentally from their original states. While this plantation model generated substantial economic returns, it simultaneously cultivated latent ecological risks.
The Pacific dispersal of eucalyptus, macadamia, and kiwifruit represents more than simple narratives of discovery by plant hunters followed by direct transplantation to botanical gardens and commercial nurseries. Rather, their trajectories embody the complex dynamics of global species exchange since the late 19th century - shaped by evolving medical paradigms, botanical advancements, burgeoning consumer cultures, and competing ideological frameworks that collectively reconfigured the logic of biological transfer.