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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789111803321

Titolo

Science and technology in modern China, 1880s-1940s / / edited by Jing Tsu and Benjamin A. Elman ; contributors Iwo Amelung [and ten others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-26878-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

China Studies, , 1570-1344 ; ; Volume 27

Disciplina

509.51/09041

Soggetti

Science and state - China - History - 19th century

Science and state - China - History - 20th century

Science - China - History - 19th century

Science - China - History - 20th century

Technology - China - History - 19th century

Technology - China - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Jing Tsu and Benjamin A. Elman -- Toward a History of Modern Science in Republican China / Benjamin A. Elman -- Historiography of Science and Technology in China / Iwo Amelung -- Disciplining the National Essence / Joachim Kurtz -- Science in Translation / Shen Guowei -- Chinese Scripts, Codes, and Typewriting Machines / Jing Tsu -- Semiotic Sovereignty / Thomas S. Mullaney -- Proofreading Science / Eugenia Lean -- The Controversy over Spontaneous Generation in Republican China / Fa-ti Fan -- Bridging East and West through Physics / Danian Hu -- Periodical Space / Grace Shen -- Operatic Escapes / Hugh Shapiro -- Index / Jing Tsu and Benjamin A. Elman.

Sommario/riassunto

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. Contributors include: Iwo Amelung, Fa-ti Fan, Shen Guowei, Danian Hu, Joachim Kurtz, Eugenia Lean, Thomas S. Mullaney, Hugh Shapiro, Grace Shen, and Jing Tsu.