Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2013, ©2013.

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Additional Authors

• Wei, Chunjuan Nancy.
• Brock, Darryl E.

Description

xxxv, 391 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Contributors approach the challenge of interpreting the science and technology of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution from different viewpoints, some as China-based scholars, others in the United States, and representing views of historians, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, literary scholars, and mathematicians. These scholars also represent a spectrum regarding their sense for the Cultural Revolution, ranging from skeptics who perceive little in the way of innovation or benefit from that period, to those who are agnostic, seeking evidence for S&T innovation, and others who lived through the Cultural Revolution, arguing the world has much yet to learn from socialist science"--

Subject

• Science > Social aspects > China
• Technology > Social aspects > China
• Communism and science > China
• HISTORY / Social History
• HISTORY / Asia / China
• China > History > Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: reassessing the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution / Darryl E. Brock and Chunjuan Nancy Wei -- The people's landscape: Mr. Science and the mass line / Darryl E. Brock -- Science imperiled: intellectuals and the Cultural Revolution / Cong Cao -- Screening the Maoist Mr. Science: Breaking with old ideas and constructing the post-capitalist university / Michael A. Mikita -- Dialectics of numbers: Marxism, Maoism, and the calculus of infinitesimals / Yibao Xu -- Ideology and cosmology: Maoist discussion on physics and the Cultural Revolution / Yinghong Cheng -- Space for the people: China's aerospace industry and the Cultural Revolution / Stacey Solomone -- Barefoot doctors: the legacy of Chairman Mao's healthcare / Chunjuan Nancy Wei -- Rural agriculture: scientific and technological development during the Cultural Revolution / Dongpin Han -- Missile science, population science: the origins of China's one-child policy / Susan Greenhalgh -- Worker innovation: did Maoist promotion contribute to China's present technological and economic success? / Rudi Volti -- On the appropriate use of rose-colored glasses: reflections on science in socialist China / Sigrid Schmalzer.

ISBN

• 9780739149744 (hardback)
• 0739149741 (hardback)
• 9780739149751 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
• 073914975X (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012034267

OCLC

• 808416515
• SCSB-13685906

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library