Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's cultural revolution [electronic resource] : science and technology in modern China / edited by Chunjuan Nancy Wei and Darryl E. Brock.

Contributor(s): Wei, Chunjuan Nancy | Brock, Darryl E | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham [Md.] : Lexington Books, 2013Description: xxxv, 391 p. : illISBN: 9780739149751 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Science -- Social aspects -- China | Technology -- Social aspects -- China | Communism and science -- China | China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 303.48/3095109045 LOC classification: Q175.52.C6 | M72 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Science, society and the cultural revolution -- pt. 3. Scientific disciplines and the cultural revolution -- pt. 4. The post-Mao springtime for science.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Science, society and the cultural revolution -- pt. 3. Scientific disciplines and the cultural revolution -- pt. 4. The post-Mao springtime for science.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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