Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s

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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.

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Disciplining the National Essence
Liu Shipei and the Reinvention of Ancient China’s Intellectual History
Pages: 67–91
Science in Translation
Yan Fu’s Role
Pages: 93–113
Semiotic Sovereignty
The 1871 Chinese Telegraph Code in Historical Perspective
Pages: 153–183
Proofreading Science
Editing and Experimentation in Manuals by a 1930s Industrialist
Pages: 185–208
The Controversy over Spontaneous Generation in Republican China
Science, Authority, and the Public
By: Fa-ti Fan
Pages: 209–244
Bridging East and West through Physics
William Band at Yenching University
By: Danian Hu
Pages: 245–268
Periodical Space
Language and the Creation of Scientific Community in Republican China
Pages: 269–295
Operatic Escapes
Performing Madness in Neuropsychiatric Beijing
Pages: 297–325
Index
Pages: 327–347
Jing Tsu, Ph.D. (2001), Harvard University, is Professor of Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her publications include Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937 (Stanford, 2005) and Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora (Harvard, 2010).

Benjamin Elman, Ph.D. (1980), University of Pennsylvania, is Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University. His publications include On Their Own Terms: Science in China 1550-1900 (Harvard, 2005), A Cultural History of Modern Science in China (Harvard, 2006), Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2013).
All interested in the history of science and technology, modern Chinese intellectual and cultural history, and anyone concerned with comparative studies of the history of science and culture.
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