LEADER 04142nam 22005773 450 001 9911011378003321 005 20250728112457.0 010 $a9783111245362 010 $a3111245365 024 7 $a10.1515/9783111245362 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31579969 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31579969 035 $a(CKB)33645676700041 035 $a(DE-B1597)651067 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783111245362 035 $a(Perlego)4513043 035 $a(OCoLC)1451323968 035 $a(EXLCZ)9933645676700041 100 $a20240806d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAge of Exploration $eHow Chinese Scientists and Administrators Discovered China 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBasel/Berlin/Boston :$cWalter de Gruyter GmbH,$d2024. 210 4$dİ2024. 215 $a1 online resource (300 pages) 225 1 $aDialectics of the Global Series ;$vv.17 311 08$a9783111245171 311 08$a3111245179 327 $aIntro -- On the Series -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Exploration -- 2 Remaking Hinterland Guizhou: Ding Wenjiang's (1887-1936) Pioneering Geo-surveys in Southwest China -- 3 Meteorological Explorations in Republican China: Observations on Mount Emei and Mount Tai during the International Polar Year 1932/33 -- 4 A Shared Journey for the Chinese Oil Dream: The Yumen Oilfield, Foreign Geologists and the Localization of Chinese Petroleum Geologists -- 5 Infrastructure, Ethnography, and the Integration of Xinjiang: The Northwest Reconstruction Expedition of 1943 -- Part II: Representation -- 6 Re-shaping the Imagined Community: Postal Maps and the Making of National Space for Young China -- 7 The KMT's Long March: Highways, War, and National Space in China's Southwest -- Part III: Reclamation -- 8 Planting the Seeds of the Nation: Agricultural Experimental Stations and the Making of the Chinese Geo-Body -- 9 Spatializing the State Through Forest Surveys: Constructing Verticality and Encompassment in the Early Years of the People's Republic of China -- 10 Experiments with Scale: The People's Electrification Campaign of 1958-1961 and China's Pursuit for a New Energy Future -- 11 Conclusion -- List of Contributors -- Index. 330 $aIn the early twentieth century, Chinese intellectuals came to realize that Westerners surpassed them not only in knowledge of the world, but also in knowledge of China itself. A rising generation of Chinese scientists, engineers, and administrators was eager to address this state of affairs and began to retrace the footsteps of Western explorers who had crisscrossed China during the preceding century. The nine case studies assembled in this book show how a new cohort of professional Chinese explorers traveled, studied, appropriated, and reshaped national space from the 1920s to the 1950s. In some instances, the explorers drew directly from the fieldwork practices of their Western predecessors. In others, they trained compilers to collect and systematize local knowledge that could be passed up the administrative hierarchy to government and national institutions. Their projects helped to claim natural resources, prepare for infrastructural development, and create new institutionalized knowledge and public engagement with textual representations of China?s geobody. This book elucidates the ways in which knowledge production in early twentieth-century China centered on space and contributed to China?s transformation into a modern nation-state. 410 0$aDialectics of the Global Series 607 $aChina$xDiscovery and exploration$vCase studies 610 $aModern Chinese history. 610 $ahistory of Science. 610 $anation building. 610 $anational space. 676 $a951 676 $a900 700 $aKaske$b Elisabeth$01829296 701 $aKöll$b Elisabeth$01829297 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911011378003321 996 $aAge of Exploration$94398540 997 $aUNINA