Science and technology in modern China, 1880s - 1940s
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 an...
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden [u.a.]
Brill
2014
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| Series: | China studies
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China studies (27)
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz403198569inh.htm
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| Author Notes: | ed. by Jing Tsu and Benjamin A. Elman |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9789004258532 9004258531 9789004268418 |