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Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution : science and technology in modern China / edited by Chunjuan Nancy Wei and Darryl E. Brock.
Van Pelt Library Q175.52. C6 M72 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Social aspects--China.
- Science.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Communism and science.
- China.
- Technology--Social aspects--China.
- Technology.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Communism and science--China.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, 2013.
- Summary:
- "Contributors approach the challenge of interpreting the science and technology of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution from different viewpoints, some as China-based scholars, others in the United States, and representing views of historians, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, literary scholars, and mathematicians. These scholars also represent a spectrum regarding their sense for the Cultural Revolution, ranging from skeptics who perceive little in the way of innovation or benefit from that period, to those who are agnostic, seeking evidence for S&T innovation, and others who lived through the Cultural Revolution, arguing the world has much yet to learn from socialist science"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I Introduction
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Reassessing the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution / Darryl E. Brock Brock, Darryl E., Chunjuan Nancy Wei Wei, Chunjuan Nancy 1
- Chapter 2 The People's Landscape: Mr. Science and the Mass Line / Darryl E. Brock Brock, Darryl E. 41
- Part II Science, Society and the Cultural Revolution
- Chapter 3 Science Imperiled: Intellectuals and the Cultural Revolution / Cong Cao Cao, Cong 119
- Chapter 4 Screening the Maoist Mr. Science: Breaking with Old Ideas and Constructing the Post-Capitalist University / Michael A. Mikita Mikita, Michael A. 143
- Part III Scientific Disciplines and the Cultural Revolution
- Chapter 5 Dialectics of Numbers: Marxism, Maoism, and the Calculus of Infinitesimals / Yibao Xu Xu, Yibao 165
- Chapter 6 Ideology and Cosmology: Maoist Discussion on Physics and the Cultural Revolution / Yinghong Cheng Cheng, Yinghong 197
- Chapter 7 Space for the People: China's Aerospace Industry and the Cultural Revolution / Stacey Solomone Solomone, Stacey 233
- Chapter 8 Barefoot Doctors: The Legacy of Chairman Mao's Healthcare / Chunjuan Nancy Wei Wei, Chunjuan Nancy 251
- Chapter 9 Rural Agriculture: Scientific and Technological Development during the Cultural Revolution / Dongping Han Han, Dongping 281
- Part IV The Post-Mao Springtime for Science
- Chapter 10 Missile Science, Population Science: The Origins of China's One-Child Policy / Susan Greenhalgh Greenhalgh, Susan 305
- Chapter 11 Worker Innovation: Did Maoist Promotion Contribute to China's Present Technological and Economic Success? / Rudi Void Void, Rudi 333
- Chapter 12 On the Appropriate Use of Rose-Colored Glasses: Reflections on Science in Socialist China / Sigrid Schmalzer Schmalzer, Sigrid 347.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739149744
- 0739149741
- OCLC:
- 808416515
- Online:
- Cover image
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