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The people's Peking man popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China

Title
The people's Peking man [electronic resource] : popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China / Sigrid Schmalzer.
Author
Schmalzer, Sigrid.
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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Description
1 online resource (xix, 346 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
People's Peking man (Online)
Alternative Title
People's Peking man (Online)
Subject
  • Peking man
  • Paleoanthropology > China
  • Communism and science > China
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-326) and index.
Access (note)
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Contents
"From 'dragon bones' to scientific research" : Peking Man and popular paleoanthropology in pre-1949 China -- "A united front against superstition" : science dissemination, 1940-1971 -- "The content of human" : in search of human identity, 1940-1971 -- "Labor created science" : the class politics of scientific knowledge, 1940-1971 -- "Presumptuous guests usurp the hosts" : dissemination and participation, 1971-1978 -- "Springtime for science," but what a garden : mystery, superstition, and fanatics in the post-Máo Era -- "From legend to science," and back again? : Bigfoot, science, and the people in post-Máo China -- "Have we dug at our ancestral shrine?" : post-Máo ethnic nationalism and its limits.
LCCN
2007046296
OCLC
ssj0000219562
Author
Schmalzer, Sigrid.
Title
The people's Peking man [electronic resource] : popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China / Sigrid Schmalzer.
Imprint
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-326) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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