The Making of the Human Sciences in China

Historical and Conceptual Foundations

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This volume provides a history of how “the human” has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present. Organized around four themes—“Parameters of Human Life,” “Formations of the Human Subject,” “Disciplining Knowledge,” and “Deciphering Health”—it scrutinizes the development of scientific knowledge and technical interest in human organization within an evolving Chinese society. Spanning the Ming-Qing, Republican, and contemporary periods, its twenty-four original, synthetic chapters ground the mutual construction of “China” and “the human” in concrete historical contexts. As a state-of-the-field survey, a definitive textbook for teaching, and an authoritative reference that guides future research, this book pushes Sinology, comparative cultural studies, and the history of science in new directions.

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Howard Chiang, Ph.D. (2012), Princeton University, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (Columbia, 2018) and editor of Sexuality in China: Histories of Power and Pleasure (Washington, 2018).
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: A New Order of Things: Scientific Visions of the Human in China
Howard Chiang

Part 1: Parameters of Human Life


1 Technology
Francesca Bray

2 Cartography
Alexander Akin

3 Ethnography
Laura Hostetler

4 Historiography
Matthew W. Mosca and Howard Chiang

5 Reproduction
Yi-Li Wu

6 Ghostly Encounters
Hsiu-fen Chen

Part 2: Formations of the Modern Subject


7 Race
Frank Dikötter

8 Ethnicity
Bin Yang

9 Citizenship
Joshua Hill

10 Class
Stephen A. Smith

11 Sexuality
Howard Chiang

12 Gender
Tani Barlow

Part 3: Disciplining Knowledge


13 Economics
Joyman Lee

14 Psychology
Zhipeng Gao

15 Statistics
Andrea Bréard

16 Sociology
Yung-chen Chiang

17 Anthropology
Hsiao-pei Yen

18 Political Science
John Feng

Part 4: Deciphering Health


19 Anatomy
David Luesink

20 Forensic Medicine
Daniel Asen

21 Physical Hygiene
Ruth Rogaski

22 Mental Health
Wen-Ji Wang and Hsuan-Ying Huang

23 Psychiatry
Harry Yi-Jui Wu

24 Psychoanalysis
Jingyuan Zhang
All interested in the history of science and medicine, Chinese intellectual and cultural history, and anyone concerned with the comparative studies of human subjectivity and the social management of science and cultural difference.
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