Knowledge acts in modern China
Subtitle: ideas, institutions, and identities
By: co-editors, Robert Culp, Eddy U, and Wen-hsin Yeh
Series: China research monograph -- 73
Publisher: The Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781557291707
Subjects: Politics and government; Learning and scholarship; Sociology of Knowledge; Politics and culture; Intellectual life; Social change; Group identity; Curricula; Political parties; Education; Nationalism; History
Description: "This book examines as interrelated processes the reception of foreign systems of thought, the construction of modern academic and professional disciplines, and the emergence of new social identities in twentieth-century China after the fall of the imperial state and with the rise of political parties and mass nationalism"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Knowledge systems, knowledge producers, and China's distinctive modernity / Robert Culp and Eddy U; title: Part I. New systems of academic learning; title: Coming to terms with global competition : the rise of historical geography in early twentieth-century China / Tze-ki Hon; title: Drawing boundaries in sand : anthropology in republican China / Clayton Brown; title: Part II. Technical knowledge and the professions; title: From literati to legal professionals : the first generation of Chinese law school graduates and their career patterns / Huei-min Sun; title: The Chinese judge : from Literatus to cadre, 1906-1949 / Glenn Tiffert; title: The making of the civil engineer in China : knowledge transfer, institution building, and the rise of a profession / Elisabeth Køll; title: Part III. Media and the market; title: Economics with Chinese characteristics : the production of economic knowledge in early republican China / Bryna Goodman; title: Mass production of knowledge and the industrialization of mental labor : the rise of the petty intellectual / Robert Culp; title: Journalism as a field of knowledge in republican China : ideas, institutions, and politics / Timothy Weston; title: Part IV. Party control and construction; title: Looking toward the future : state standardization and professionalization of science in wartime China / J. Megan Greene; title: Making Maoism : ideology and organizations in the Yan'an rectification movement, 1942-44 / Timothy Cheek; title: The formation of intellectuals in Yan'an / Eddy U.