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1 online resource (423 pages) |
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MR. SCIENCE AND CHAIRMAN MAO'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; PART I INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 Introduction: Reassessing the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution; Chapter 2 The People's Landscape: Mr. Science and the Mass Line; PART II SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION; Chapter 3 Science Imperiled: Intellectuals and the Cultural Revolution; Chapter 4 Screening the Maoist Mr. Science:Breaking with Old Ideas and Constructing the Post-Capitalist University; PART III SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES AND THECULTURAL REVOLUTION |
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Chapter 5 Dialectics of Numbers:Marxism, Maoism, and the Calculus of InfinitesimalsChapter 6 Ideology and Cosmology: Maoist Discussion on Physics and the Cultural Revolution; Chapter 7 Space for the People: China's Aerospace Industry and the Cultural Revolution; Chapter 8 Barefoot Doctors: The Legacy of Chairman Mao's Healthcare; Chapter 9 Rural Agriculture: Scientific and Technological Development during the Cultural Revolution; PART IV THE POST-MAO SPRINGTIME FOR SCIENCE; Chapter 10 Missile Science, Population Science: The Origins of China's One-Child Policy |
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Chapter 11 Worker Innovation: Did Maoist Promotion Contribute to China's Present Technological and Economic Success?Chapter 12 On the Appropriate Use of Rose-Colored Glasses: Reflections on Science in Socialist China; Selected Bibliography; Index; Contributors |
| Summary |
Despite the verdict of the Cultural Revolution as a disaster for China, a number of scholars have called for re-examining socialist science under Mao's aegis. Western observers once found much to admire in Chairman Mao's mass science, with its origins in the May Fourth era. This collection represents diverse viewpoints on social and scientific enterprises of that era, probing medicine, the space program and even the one-child policy as direct outcomes of earlier Maoist science |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Science -- Social aspects -- China
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Technology -- Social aspects -- China
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Communism and science -- China
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
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Communism and science
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Science -- Social aspects
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Technology -- Social aspects
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China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024126
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Brock, Darryl E
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Cao, Cong
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Cheng, Yinghong
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Greenhalgh, Susan
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Han, Dongping
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Mikita, Michael A
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Schmalzer, Sigrid
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Solomone, Stacey
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Volti, Rudi
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Wei, Chunjuan Nancy
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Xu, Yibao
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| ISBN |
9780739149751 |
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073914975X |
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0739149741 |
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9780739149744 |
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9781299055803 |
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129905580X |
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