Article ID: CBB027652084

“Mr. Science”, May Fourth, and the Global History of Science (2022)

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Fan, Fa-ti (Author)


East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 16
Issue: 3
Pages: 279-304


Publication Date: 2022
Edition Details: Special Issue: Challenging and Reinvigorating China’s “Mr. Science”: Global History, Science and Democracy, Universality without Eurocentrism, and Beyond
Language: English

This paper argues that Mr. Science and the May 4th Movement was a significant chapter in the global history of science. To contextualize the story better, I will adopt three broad interpretive frames. First, I shall place Mr. Science and May Fourth in a longer view than the particular events in the 1910s–1920s. This will allow us to trace the historical changes and the evolving institutions, discourses, and practitioners of science over a few generations. Second, I shall highlight the most relevant global conditions. Western imperialism was of course a crucial setting, but there were more specific historical moments that also deserve attention. Finally, comparisons and connections; it is necessary to examine the transmutations of ideas, knowledge, and institutions across political and cultural borders. In other words, we should study Mr. Science and May Fourth in the mode of global intellectual history. Other than China, my main comparative cases are India and Japan, though I will also refer to Ottoman Turkey. Taken together, these examples provide a range of comparisons central to our inquiry into Mr. Science and the global history of science.

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Article Victor Seow; Sean Hsiang-lin Lei (2022) Who Is Mr. Science and Why Does He Matter?. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 269-278). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Seow, Victor Kian Giap
Surman, Jan
Gordin, Michael D.
Sandvik, Pål Thonstad
Henniges, Norman
Espen Storli
Concepts
Imperialism
Global history
Nationalism
May Fourth Movement
Colonialism
Cross-national comparison
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
Modern
20th century, early
Places
China
Europe
India
Mississippi River (North America)
Eastern Europe
United States
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
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