Science and technology in modern China, 1880s-1940s
By: edited by Jing Tsu and Benjamin A. Elman
Contributors: Ellman, Benjamin A., editor of compilation
Series: China studies -- volume 27
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9789004258532; 9789004268784
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Science and state; History; Science; Technology
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.