The people's Peking man popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China
In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man became a prominent figure in the movement to bring science to the people. In a new state with twin goa...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London
The University of Chicago Press
2009, ©2008
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Conventions
- Introduction
- 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 Concept 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-Máo Era
- 7 “From Legend to Science,” and Back Again? Bigfoot, Science, and the People in Post-Máo China
- 8. “Have We Dug at Our Ancestral Shrine?” Post-Máo Ethnic Nationalism and Its Limits
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index