The people's Peking man
Subtitle: popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China
By: Sigrid Schmalzer.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780226738598
Subjects: Peking man; Paleoanthropology -- China; Communism and science -- China
Description: After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking man became a prominent figure in the Chinese movement to bring science to the people. In a new state with twin goals of crushing superstition and establishing a socialist society, the story of human evolution was the first lesson in Marxist philosophy delivered to the masses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.