Article ID: CBB064259086

Houses of Experiment: Making Space for Science in Republican China (2016)

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This essay explores the scientific lives of two Republican-period institutions: the Henry Lester Institute of Medical Research, based in Shanghai; and the Chongqing No. 3 Children's Home. Despite their differences, these two spaces sheltered and nurtured scientific experimentation and functioned as heterotopic sites that controlled who could produce scientific knowledge and which kinds of scientific objects could become visible. By examining closely the research work of Bernard E. Read, Stephen M. K. Hu, and the team of nutrition scientists from National Jiangsu Medical College, this article argues that how space became hospitable for scientific experiment and how science refashioned space were mutually constitutive processes. This process of coproduction was critical to and, at times, contested through expressions of expertise.

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Authors & Contributors
Zhang, Er-ping
Jan Kiely
Hubbard, Joshua A.
Stéphanie Homola
Ling Shiao
Robert Culp
Concepts
Societies; institutions; academies
Museums
Medicine
Technology and culture
Technology and society
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Time Periods
20th century, early
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
20th century
19th century
Places
China
Republic of China (1912-1949)
Japan
Taiwan
Institutions
Academia Sinica
Nantong Museum (China)
West China Academy of Sciences
Geological Survey Library of the Ministry of Commerce and Agriculture
National Geological Library of China
Science Society of China
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