Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)

China's Cold War Science Diplomacy

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Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive study of the history of the Chinese Communist Party's science diplomacy. Based on a wide range of archival research, including material from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Barrett provides new insights into the actors, organisations, and networks underpinning Chinese international scientific outreach in the Mao Era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9781108844574
• ISBN-10: 110884457X
• Artikelnr.: 63700996

Autorenporträt

Gordon Barrett is Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Politics at University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Note on the text; List of key abbreviations;
Introduction; 1. A Scientific United Front at Home and Abroad: Chinese
Communist Party-Aligned Science Organisations and the World Federation of
Scientific Workers, 1946-1956; 2. Between Pugwash and the party-state:
Scientists, agency, and transnational activism in the early Pugwash
Conferences on Science and World Affairs, 1955-1960; 3. 'Friends and
comrades, we fight against imperialism': The radical evolution of China's
science diplomacy, 1960-1968; 4. Linking the local, national, and
international: Scientific organisations and foreign affairs in the 'Peking
Science Symposium' conferences, 1964-1966; 5. A spectrum of propaganda and
scientific exchange: British socialist scientists and 'New China';
Conclusion: Situating scientists in China's foreign relations; Select
bibliography; Index.