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The people's Peking man : popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China / Sigrid Schmalzer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmalzer, Sigrid.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peking man.
- Paleoanthropology--China.
- Paleoanthropology.
- Communism and science--China.
- Communism and science.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- "From 'dragon bones' to scientific research" : Peking Man and popular paleoanthropology in pre-1949 China
- "A united front against superstition" : science dissemination, 1940-1971
- "The content of human" : in search of human identity, 1940-1971
- "Labor created science" : the class politics of scientific knowledge, 1940-1971
- "Presumptuous guests usurp the hosts" : dissemination and participation, 1971-1978
- "Springtime for science," but what a garden : mystery, superstition, and fanatics in the post-Máo Era
- "From legend to science," and back again? : Bigfoot, science, and the people in post-Máo China
- "Have we dug at our ancestral shrine?" : post-Máo ethnic nationalism and its limits.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-326) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226738598
- 0226738590
- 9780226738604
- 0226738604
- OCLC:
- 181910118
- Online:
- Publisher description
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