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.
- Lanham : Lexington Books, 2012.
- 1 online resource (423 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 represents diverse viewpoints on social and scientific enterprises of that era, probing medicine, the space program and even the one-child policy as direct outcomes of earlier Maoist science.
9780739149751 073914975X 0739149741 9780739149744 9781299055803 (MyiLibrary) 129905580X (MyiLibrary)
436830 MIL B08C97B0-BDDD-4CAF-AB3B-71A5167CFC07 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
1966-1976
Science--Social aspects--China.
Technology--Social aspects--China.
Communism and science--China.
Sciences--Aspect social--Chine.
Communisme et sciences--Chine.
HISTORY--Social History.
HISTORY--China.--Asia
SCIENCE--Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Social Aspects.
Communism and science.
Science--Social aspects.
Technology--Social aspects.
China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
Chine--Histoire--1966-1976 (Révolution culturelle)
China.
Electronic books.
History.
Q175.52. C6 / M72 2013eb
303.4830951
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 represents diverse viewpoints on social and scientific enterprises of that era, probing medicine, the space program and even the one-child policy as direct outcomes of earlier Maoist science.
9780739149751 073914975X 0739149741 9780739149744 9781299055803 (MyiLibrary) 129905580X (MyiLibrary)
436830 MIL B08C97B0-BDDD-4CAF-AB3B-71A5167CFC07 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
1966-1976
Science--Social aspects--China.
Technology--Social aspects--China.
Communism and science--China.
Sciences--Aspect social--Chine.
Communisme et sciences--Chine.
HISTORY--Social History.
HISTORY--China.--Asia
SCIENCE--Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Social Aspects.
Communism and science.
Science--Social aspects.
Technology--Social aspects.
China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
Chine--Histoire--1966-1976 (Révolution culturelle)
China.
Electronic books.
History.
Q175.52. C6 / M72 2013eb
303.4830951