Natural History and Natural Resources Through the Earth Sciences in Modern China After 1900 / Markes E. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Markes E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology--China.

Geology.

Natural history--China.

Natural history.

Geology--China--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2024.

Summary:

This book provides an overview of major changes in mainland China since the start of the modern era in 1900, as leaders grappled with how to harness natural resources requiring equal development in the pure and applied sciences based on fundamentals in geology. On one hand, China was put on the global stage with discovery of Peking Man fossils in the 1920s but has continued to win global acclaim for more recent discoveries of feathered dinosaurs and the earliest examples of metazoan life. At the same time, China struggled against outside exploitation to take full control of its own mineral and oil reserves -which today are increasingly imported from abroad to maintain oil and steel production through the Belt and Road initiative.The book concludes with a a discussion of what the 'Chinese Dream' may mean in comparison to what many in the United States consider as a birthright with the 'American Dream'.

Contents:

Intro

List of illustrations

Preface: On the Initiation of a Sinophile

China's Geology Meets the World: A Purview in the Library Stacks

Aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion: Sterling Clark in the Yellow River Basin

A Fraternity of International Geologists in 1930s Peking

Exploring the Yangtze Platform and Denial of a Divided China - 1983

Crossing from Hong Kong on a Return to Guizhou Province - 1994

Inner Mongolia, The North China Block and Feathered Dinosaurs - 1999

Modern Ground Transportation, Xi'an and a Muslim Minority - 2007

Yunnan Province, Geoparks, and Revival of Cambrian Biology - 2009

Kunming to Guangzhou: Wealth Disparities, Ethnic Tension, and Women in Science

Conflict with Taiwan, the Other China

Achieving the Chinese Dream, Chinese Exceptionalism, and Geopolitics

End Notes

Bibliography.

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ISBN:

9781804418161

1804418161

OCLC:

1463067995