Seow, Victor Kian Giap (Author)
Lei, Sean Hsiang-lin (Author)
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 16
Issue: 3
Pages: 269-278
Edition Details: Special Issue: Challenging and Reinvigorating China’s “Mr. Science”: Global History, Science and Democracy, Universality without Eurocentrism, and Beyond
Language: English
This special issue is devoted to exploring the manifestations of Mr. Science in May Fourth China and to examining this icon’s significance not only to China’s modern era but also to our understandings of science and society beyond. In this introduction, the co-editors make a case for critically engaging Mr. Science and, by extension, questions of science in early twentieth century China, particularly in light of China’s emergence as a scientific and technological superpower today—a fact which has, incidentally, been framed by the current PRC government as a realization of May Fourth dreams. In concurrently reinvigorating Mr. Science’s idealism, critical edge, and cosmopolitanism while challenging his common association with scientism, the articles in this special issue offer new insights into topics from science and democracy to universality without Eurocentricism, which are of relevance and interest to both modern Chinese history and the global history of science.
...MoreArticle Fa-ti Fan (2022) “Mr. Science”, May Fourth, and the Global History of Science. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 279-304).
Article Sigrid Schmalzer (2022) The Global Comrades of Mr. Democracy and Mr. Science: Placing May Fourth in a Transnational History of Science Activism. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 305-326).
Article Zuoyue Wang (2022) Practicing Mr. Science: Chinese Scientists and the May Fourth Movement from Zhu Kezhen to Fang Lizhi. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 327-348).
Article Victor Seow (2022) A Tradition of Invention: The Paradox of Glorifying Past Technological Breakthroughs. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 349-366).
Article Jia-Chen Fu (2022) Would Mr. Science Eat the Chinese Diet?. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 367-386).
Article Wen-Ji Wang (2022) “Hotbeds of Psychopathology”: Psy Sciences and the Critique of the Family in Republican China. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 387-407).
Article Sean Hsiang-lin Lei (2022) The Dawn of Science as Cultural Authority in China: Tianyanlun (On Heavenly Evolution) in the Post-1895 Debate over the Engagement with Western Civilization. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 408-432).
Article Wen-hsin Yeh (2022) Situating Science in the Century since the May Fourth Movement. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 433-440).
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