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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Montmerle Thierry"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"China and the International Astronomical Union : Divorce, Separation and Reconciliation (1958–1982) / / by Thierry Montmerle, Yi Zhou"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"3-031-01787-0"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed. 2022.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (225 pages)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Historical & Cultural Astronomy, , 2509-3118"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"520.951"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Physics - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Astronomy"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Law of the sea"]
[{"$nulls":4},"International law"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Aeronautics - Law and legislation"]
[{"$nulls":4},"History of Physics and Astronomy"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Intro -- Prologue -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction and Outline -- Chapter 2: Historical and Geopolitical Background -- 2.1 From a World War to the Next -- 2.2 Historical Background in East Asia: Taiwan -- 2.3 Korea -- 2.4 China -- 2.5 Note on Chinese Names -- Chapter 3: The Divorce -- 3.1 From Dublin to Moscow: Taiwan Appears on the Scene -- 3.2 The Moscow General Assembly -- 3.3 Cold War Context: The 1960 Winter Olympics in California -- 3.4 The New Executive Committee: A Highly Experienced Leadership -- 3.5 Herstmonceux Castle: The 19th Executive Committee Meeting -- 3.6 The IAU Statutes in 1958 -- 3.7 The Oort-Sadler Proposal -- 3.8 The Tumultuous Withdrawal of China -- 3.9 An Enigmatic ``Radioteletype´´ -- 3.10 The 1961 General Assembly at Berkeley: A Tortuous Path to Ratification -- 3.11 New Cold War Challenges for the IAU at Berkeley -- Chapter 4: China vs. Taiwan: A General Problem for Scientific Unions -- 4.1 The International Scientific Unions and China in 1958 -- 4.2 The Aftermath of the ``China-Taiwan Crisis´´: The IAU vs. Other Unions -- Chapter 5: Living in Separate Worlds -- 5.1 The ``Ice Age´´ -- 5.2 The Turning "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Point: China Admitted to the UN -- 5.3 A Man with a Mission: The Goldberg Presidency -- 5.4 The ICSU Mission to China -- 5.5 Astronomers in China: Act II -- 5.6 A Hopeless Situation -- 5.7 Declarations and Unrest at the Grenoble General Assembly (1976) -- Chapter 6: The Question of Taiwan: Pressure from UNESCO -- 6.1 The UNESCO Resolution of 1973 -- 6.2 UNESCO, Act II (1975) -- 6.3 The ICSU Dissidents -- Chapter 7: The Uncertain Road to Reconciliation -- 7.1 ``Melting the Iceberg´´ -- 7.2 A Rapidly Evolving Geopolitical Context -- 7.3 Speeding Up: The Montreal Opportunity -- 7.4 A Final, General Agreement: The IAU, ICSU, and Other Unions -- Chapter 8: Conclusions."]
[{"$nulls":4},"8.1 The Admission of Taiwan: Was It ``Political´´? -- 8.2 Was It Legal? -- 8.3 Was It Right? -- 8.4 Why Did the ``Happy Ending´´ Happen So Quickly? -- 8.5 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 9: Epilogue -- Appendix A: A ``Personal Account´´ by D. Sadler (1976) of  the Admission of Taiwan to the IAU -- Beginning and End of the Handwritten ``Personal Account´´ of Donald Sadler, 1976 (Internal Document Kept in the IAU Archives, ... -- The Admission of Taiwan to Membership of the International Astronomical Union -- Appendix B: IAU Archival Documents (1958-1979) -- Appendix B1: Exchange of Letters between Y.C. Chang and J. Oort (1959) -- Appendix B2: Radioteletype Transcript Announcing the Withdrawal of China from the IAU (1960) -- Appendix B3: Statement of the People´s Republic of China after the ICSU General Assembly (1974) -- Appendix B4: The ``Montreal Agreement´´ (1979) -- Appendix C: A Visit to China Astronomy in 1979 -- 1. The Context -- 2. Visit of a French Astronomical Delegation to China (1979) -- 3. Some Observations during the Visit -- 4. Emerging Cooperations -- Appendix D: Under One Starry Sky-The History of the International Astronomy Union (IAU) -- Chapter 5, Sect. 4: The Contraflow of History -- Chapter 5, Sect. 5: The Return to the IAU -- References -- IAU: General Web Resources -- ``IAU Transactions´´ -- Books &amp -- Reports -- Articles -- Name Index."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Seen from “inside the IAU,” this book tells the in-depth story of a major crisis in which China “divorced” from the International Astronomical Union in 1960 as a protest against the admission of Taiwan. This happened to all the scientific unions at the same time, and to the Olympic Games, which, unexpectedly, would serve as a laboratory for the “reconciliation” which took place following the re-opening of China to the world 20 years later. The so-called “China conflict” is the most important crisis in the post-WWII history of the IAU. Yet, many details about this conflict and its links to broader geopolitical events have long remained unsettled, obscure, or altogether absent. In particular, the book describes for the first time the “separation” period, which covered the Cultural Revolution, and in which the IAU made desperate official efforts to reach out to China, while some groups of Western and Chinese astronomers managed to keep contact at times. On the occasion of the IAU Centenary celebrations in 2019, the book revisits this painful succession of events using unpublished documents from the IAU Archives and the International Council of Scientific Unions. The book also contains supplementary typescripts of selected handwritten correspondences and the full translation of key original Chinese documents unknown to readers outside China. What emerges is a complex and fascinating story of human relations and science diplomacy under the shadow of the Cold War. Readers will learn how the 20-year “China conflict” as lived by astronomers and scientists is important not only for the history of the IAU, but also for the history of contemporary China. “This book is full of so many original documents "]
[{"$nulls":4},"of the IAU office, very reliable and good to open to the public readers.” Shuhua Ye, Shanghai Observatory (IAU Vice-President, 1988-1994) This book is a companion book to \"Astronomers as Diplomats,\" published at the same timein the same series."]