Title China and Albert Einstein : the reception of the physicist and his theory in China 1917-1979 / Danian Hu

Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) : illustrations Contents Western physics comes to China -- China embraces the theory of relativity -- Six pioneers of relativity -- From eminent physicist to the "poor philosopher" -- Einstein: a hero reborn from the criticism Summary Annotation China and Albert Einstein is the first extensive study in English or Chinese of China's reception of the celebrated physicist and his theory of relativity. Tracing the influence of Jesuit missionaries in the seventeenth century and Western missionaries and educators in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as they introduced key concepts of Western physical science and paved the way for Einstein's radical new ideas, Danian Hu shows us that Chinese receptivity was fostered by the trickle of Chinese students sent abroad for study beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and by the openness of the May Fourth Movement (1916-1923). In a series of biographical studies of Chinese physicists, Hu describes the Chinese assimilation of relativity and explains how Chinese physicists offered arguments and theories of their own. Hu's account concludes with the troubling story of the fate of foreign ideas such as Einstein's in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), when the theory of relativity was denigrated along with Einstein's ideas on democracy and world peace. China and Albert Einstein is an important contribution to Einstein studies and a landmark work in the history of Chinese science Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Influence Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Travel -- China SUBJECT Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 fast Einstein, Albert -- Relativitätstheorie -- Rezeption -- China -- Geschichte 1917-1979. swd Subject Relativity (Physics) SCIENCE -- Physics -- Relativity. HISTORY -- Asia -- China. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Relativity (Physics) Travel Relativitätstheorie -- Einstein, Albert -- Rezeption -- China -- Geschichte 1917-1979. SUBJECT China -- History -- May Fourth movement, 1919. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024111 Subject China China -- Einstein, Albert -- Relativitätstheorie -- Rezeption -- Geschichte 1917-1979. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674038882 0674038886 9780674015388 067401538X

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