| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 347 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
China studies ; volume 27 |
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China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 27.
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| Contents |
List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Jing Tsu and Benjamin A. Elman Introduction; Toward a History of Modern Science in Republican China; Benjamin A. Elman; Historiography of Science and Technology in China; The First Phase; Iwo Amelung; Disciplining the National Essence; Liu Shipei and the Reinvention of Ancient China's Intellectual History; Joachim Kurtz; Science in Translation; Yan Fu's Role; Shen Guowei; Chinese Scripts, Codes, and Typewriting Machines; Jing Tsu; Semiotic Sovereignty; The 1871 Chinese Telegraph Code in Historical Perspective; Thomas S. Mullaney; Proofreading ScienceEditing and Experimentation in Manuals by a 1930s Industrialist; Eugenia Lean; The Controversy over Spontaneous Generation in Republican China; Science, Authority, and the Public; Fa-ti Fan; Bridging East and West through Physics; William Band at Yenching University; Danian Hu; Periodical Space; Language and the Creation of Scientific Community in Republican China; Grace Shen; Operatic Escapes; Performing Madness in Neuropsychiatric Beijing; Hugh Shapiro; Index |
| Summary |
The first of its kind, this collection of critical essays opens up new venues in the comparative study of science and culture by focusing on the formative decades of modern China in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. It provides a wide-ranging examination of the cultural and intellectual history of science and technology in modern China. From anti-imperialism to the technology of Chinese writing, the commodification of novelties to the rise of the modern professional scientist, new lexica and appropriations of the past, the contributors map out a transregional and global circuitry of modern knowledge and practical know-how, nationalism and the amalgamation of new social practices |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Science and state -- China -- History -- 19th century
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Science and state -- China -- History -- 20th century
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Science -- China -- History -- 19th century
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Science -- China -- History -- 20th century
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Technology -- China -- History -- 19th century
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Technology -- China -- History -- 20th century
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SCIENCE -- History.
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Science
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Science and state
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Technology
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Naturwissenschaften
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Technik
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China
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tsu, Jing, editor
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Ellman, Benjamin A., editor
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| ISBN |
9789004268784 |
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9004268782 |
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