The People's Peking Man Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China
Schmalzer, Sigrid
The People's Peking Man Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China Sigrid Schmalzer - Chicago The University of Chicago Press 2008 - xix, 346 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-326) and index.
Table of Contents 1 "From 'Dragon Bones' to Scientific Research": Peking Man and Popular Paleoanthropology in Pre-1949 China 2 "A United Front against Superstition": Science Dissemination, 1940-1971 3 "The Content of Human": In Search of Human Identity, 1940-1971 4 "Labor Created Science": The Class Politics of Scientific Knowledge, 1940-1971 5 "Presumptuous Guests Usurp the Hosts": Dissemination and Participation, 1971-1978 6 "Springtime for Science," but What a Garden: Mystery, Superstition, and Fanatics in the Post-Mao Era 7 "From Legend to Science," and Back Again? Bigfoot, Science, and the People in Post-Mao China 8 "Have We Dug at Our Ancestral Shrine?" Post-Mao Ethnic Nationalism and Its Limits Conclusion Bibliography Index
9780226738604
Science -- Paleoanthropology -- Peking Man -- Communist Era
The People's Peking Man Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China Sigrid Schmalzer - Chicago The University of Chicago Press 2008 - xix, 346 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-326) and index.
Table of Contents 1 "From 'Dragon Bones' to Scientific Research": Peking Man and Popular Paleoanthropology in Pre-1949 China 2 "A United Front against Superstition": Science Dissemination, 1940-1971 3 "The Content of Human": In Search of Human Identity, 1940-1971 4 "Labor Created Science": The Class Politics of Scientific Knowledge, 1940-1971 5 "Presumptuous Guests Usurp the Hosts": Dissemination and Participation, 1971-1978 6 "Springtime for Science," but What a Garden: Mystery, Superstition, and Fanatics in the Post-Mao Era 7 "From Legend to Science," and Back Again? Bigfoot, Science, and the People in Post-Mao China 8 "Have We Dug at Our Ancestral Shrine?" Post-Mao Ethnic Nationalism and Its Limits Conclusion Bibliography Index
9780226738604
Science -- Paleoanthropology -- Peking Man -- Communist Era