Natural History and Natural Resources Through the Earth Sciences in Modern China After 1900 / / Markes E. Johnson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911117440703321
• Autore: Johnson Markes E.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bradford : , : Ethics International Press Limited, , 2024; ©2024
• ISBN: 9781804418161; 1804418161
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 pages)
• Soggetti: Geology - China; Natural history - China; Geology - China - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- List of illustrations -- Preface: On the Initiation of a Sinophile -- China's Geology Meets the World: A Purview in the Library Stacks -- Aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion: Sterling Clark in the Yellow River Basin -- A Fraternity of International Geologists in 1930s Peking -- Exploring the Yangtze Platform and Denial of a Divided China - 1983 -- Crossing from Hong Kong on a Return to Guizhou Province - 1994 -- Inner Mongolia, The North China Block and Feathered Dinosaurs - 1999 -- Modern Ground Transportation, Xi'an and a Muslim Minority - 2007 -- Yunnan Province, Geoparks, and Revival of Cambrian Biology - 2009 -- Kunming to Guangzhou: Wealth Disparities, Ethnic Tension, and Women in Science -- Conflict with Taiwan, the Other China -- Achieving the Chinese Dream, Chinese Exceptionalism, and Geopolitics -- End Notes -- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book provides an overview of major changes in mainland China since the start of the modern era in 1900, as leaders grappled with how to harness natural resources requiring equal development in the pure and applied sciences based on fundamentals in geology. On one hand, China was put on the global stage with discovery of Peking Man fossils in the 1920s but has continued to win global acclaim for more recent ; discoveries of feathered dinosaurs and the earliest examples of metazoan life. At the same time, China struggled against outside exploitation to take full control of its own mineral and oil reserves -which today are increasingly imported from abroad to maintain oil and steel production through the Belt and Road initiative.The book concludes with a a discussion of what the 'Chinese Dream' may mean in comparison to what many in the United States consider as a birthright with the 'American Dream'.