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

Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution : Science and Technology in Modern China / edited by Chunjuan Nancy Wei and Darryl E. Brock.

Despite the verdict of the Cultural Revolution as a disaster for China, a number of scholars have called for re-examining socialist science under Mao's aegis. Western observers once found much to admire in Chairman Mao's mass science, with its origins in the May Fourth era. This collection...

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Other Authors: Brock, Darryl E., Cao, Cong, Cheng, Yinghong, Greenhalgh, Susan, Han, Dongping, Mikita, Michael A., Schmalzer, Sigrid, Solomone, Stacey, Volti, Rudi, Wei, Chunjuan Nancy, Xu, Yibao
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2012.
Subjects:
1966-1976
Science > Social aspects > China.
Technology > Social aspects > China.
Communism and science > China.
HISTORY > Social History.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
Communism and science
Science > Social aspects
Technology > Social aspects
China > History > Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
China
History
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Table of Contents:
  • MR. SCIENCE AND CHAIRMAN MAO'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; PART I INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 Introduction: Reassessing the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution; Chapter 2 The People's Landscape: Mr. Science and the Mass Line; PART II SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION; Chapter 3 Science Imperiled: Intellectuals and the Cultural Revolution; Chapter 4 Screening the Maoist Mr. Science:Breaking with Old Ideas and Constructing the Post-Capitalist University; PART III SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES AND THECULTURAL REVOLUTION.
  • Chapter 5 Dialectics of Numbers:Marxism, Maoism, and the Calculus of InfinitesimalsChapter 6 Ideology and Cosmology: Maoist Discussion on Physics and the Cultural Revolution; Chapter 7 Space for the People: China's Aerospace Industry and the Cultural Revolution; Chapter 8 Barefoot Doctors: The Legacy of Chairman Mao's Healthcare; Chapter 9 Rural Agriculture: Scientific and Technological Development during the Cultural Revolution; PART IV THE POST-MAO SPRINGTIME FOR SCIENCE; Chapter 10 Missile Science, Population Science: The Origins of China's One-Child Policy.
  • Chapter 11 Worker Innovation: Did Maoist Promotion Contribute to China's Present Technological and Economic Success?Chapter 12 On the Appropriate Use of Rose-Colored Glasses: Reflections on Science in Socialist China; Selected Bibliography; Index; Contributors.

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