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Knowledge Acts in Modern China Ideas, Institutions, and Identities / edited by Robert Culp, Eddy U, and Wen-hsin Yeh.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- China Research Monograph Series
- China research monograph ; 73
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change.
- Politics and government.
- Politics and culture.
- Political parties.
- Nationalism.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Intellectual life.
- Group identity.
- Education--Curricula.
- Education.
- Social change--China--History--20th century.
- Group identity--China--History--20th century.
- Nationalism--China--History--20th century.
- Political parties--China--History--20th century.
- Politics and culture--China--History--20th century.
- Education--Curricula--China--History--20th century.
- Learning and scholarship--China--History--20th century.
- Knowledge, Sociology of--History--20th century.
- China.
- China--Politics and government--1912-1949--China.
- China--Intellectual life--1912-1949.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 382 Seiten) : Illustrationen ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2016
- Summary:
- "This book examines as interrelated processes the reception of foreign systems of thought, the construction of modern academic and professional disciplines, and the emergence of new social identities in twentieth-century China after the fall of the imperial state and with the rise of political parties and mass nationalism."
- Contents:
- The formation of intellectuals in Yan'an / Eddy U
- Making Maoism : ideology and organizations in the Yan'an rectification movement, 1942-44 / Timothy Cheek
- Looking toward the future : state standardization and professionalization of science in wartime China / J. Megan Greene
- Part IV. Party control and construction
- Journalism as a field of knowledge in republican China : ideas, institutions, and politics / Timothy Weston
- Mass production of knowledge and the industrialization of mental labor : the rise of the petty intellectual / Robert Culp
- Economics with Chinese characteristics : the production of economic knowledge in early republican China / Bryna Goodman
- Part III. Media and the market
- The making of the civil engineer in China : knowledge transfer, institution building, and the rise of a profession / Elisabeth Koll
- The Chinese judge : from Literatus to cadre, 1906-1949 / Glenn Tiffert
- From literati to legal professionals : the first generation of Chinese law school graduates and their career patterns / Huei-min Sun
- Part II. Technical knowledge and the professions
- Drawing boundaries in sand : anthropology in republican China / Clayton Brown
- Coming to terms with global competition : the rise of historical geography in early twentieth-century China / Tze-ki Hon
- Part I. New systems of academic learning
- Introduction: Knowledge systems, knowledge producers, and China's distinctive modernity / Robert Culp and Eddy U
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-55729-170-5
- OCLC:
- 1273305835
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