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Book ID: CBB001320716

Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China (2013)

Wei, Chunjuan Nancy (Editor)
Brock, Darryl E. (Editor)

Lexington Books

ISBN: 9780739149744

Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xxxv + 391 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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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

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Reviewed By

Review Yen, Hsiao-pei (2017) Review of "Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s--1940s". East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 285-292). unapi

Review Rocha, Leon Antonio (2014) Review of "Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 467-468). unapi

Review Hu, Danian (2014) Review of "Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China". Technology and Culture (pp. 270-273). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Brock, Darryl E.; Wei, Chunjuan Nancy (2013) Introduction: Reassessing the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. In: Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Brock, Darryl E. (2013) The People's Landscape: Mr. Science and the Mass Line. In: Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China (p. 41). unapi

Chapter Mikita, Michael A. (2013) Screening the Maoist Mr. Science: Breaking with Old Ideas and Constructing the Post-Capitalist University. In: Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China (p. 143). unapi

Chapter Wei, Chunjuan Nancy (2013) Barefoot Doctors: The Legacy of Chairman Mao's Healthcare. In: Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China (p. 251). unapi

Chapter Greenhalgh, Susan (2013) Missile Science, Population Science: The Origins of China's One-Child Policy. In: Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China (p. 305). unapi

Chapter Volti, Rudi (2013) Worker Innovation: Did Maoist Promotion Contribute to China's Present Chronological and Economic Success?. In: Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China (p. 333). unapi

Chapter Cao, Cong (2013) Science Imperiled: Intellectuals and the Cultural Revolution. In: Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China (p. 119). unapi

Chapter Xu, Yibao (2013) Dialectics of Numbers: Marxism, Maoism, and the Calculus of Infintesimals. In: Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China (p. 165). unapi

Chapter Cheng, Yinghong (2013) Ideology and Cosmology: Maoist Discussion on Physics and the Cultural Revolution. In: Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China (p. 197). unapi

Chapter Solomone, Stacey (2013) Space for the People: China's Aerospace Industry and the Cultural Revolution. In: Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China (p. 233). unapi

Chapter Han, Dongping (2013) Rural Agriculture: Scientific and Technological Development during the Cultural Revolution. In: Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China (p. 281). unapi

Chapter Schmalzer, Sigrid (2013) On the Appropriate Use of Rose-Colored Glasses: Reflections on Science in Socialist China. In: Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China (p. 347). unapi

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