Rui Kunze, Marc Andre Matten

Knowledge Production in Mao-Era China

Learning from the Masses

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines public discourse on the production and dissemination of scientific and technological knowledge in Mao-era China. With three case studies on agricultural mechanization, steel production, and veterinary medicine, the authors argue that the party-state pursued a pragmatist model of modernization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781498584616
• ISBN-10: 1498584616
• Artikelnr.: 62482256

Autorenporträt

Rui Kunze is a research fellow at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nüremberg. Marc Andre Matten is professor of contemporary Chinese history at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nüremberg.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Defining Correct Science-Transformations of Knowledge
Epistemologies
Chapter 2 Creating the People's Science: Science Dissemination as a Social
Process
Chapter 3 Promising a Bright Future: The (Half-)Mechanization of
Agricultural Production
Chapter 4 Producing Knowledge on the Shopfloor: Technological Innovation in
Socialist
Industrialization
Chapter 5 Creating a Bifurcated Knowledge System-the Case of Chinese
Veterinary Medicine
Chapter 6 Re-shuffling Science in the Reform Era
Bibliography
Index
About the Author