Study of Change Chemistry in China, 1840-1949

Name: Study of Change Chemistry in China, 1840-1949
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ISBN: 9780521533256

ISBN-10: 0521533252

ISBN-13: 9780521533256

Edition: 2002

Authors: James Reardon-Anderson

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When Western missionaries introduced modern chemistry to China in the 1860s, they called this discipline hua-hsueh, literally, "the study of change." In this first full-length work on science in modern China, James Reardon-Anderson describes the introduction and development of chemistry in China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and examines the impact of the science on language reform, education, industry, research, culture, society, and politics. Throughout the book, Professor Reardon-Anderson sets the advance of chemistry in the broader context of the development of science in China and the social and political changes of this era. His thesis is that science faired…

Book details

List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/2/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 468
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Science and Self-Strengthening, 1840-1895



The advocates: chemical translators, John Fryer and Hsn Shou



Changing Chinese: chemical translations of the Kiangnan Arsenal



The limits of change: science, state and society in the nineteenth century



The Interregnum, 1895-1927



First-generation scientists: makers of China+s new culture



Learning about science



The beginning of chemical research



Chinese entrepreneurs and the rise of the chemical industry



The Nanking Decade. 1927-1937



Science and the state during the Nanking Decade



Scientific education: the balance achieved



Scientific research: the balance threatened



The chemical industry and the limits of growth



The War, 1937-1945



Science in nationalist China: the wartime experience



Science in communist China I: innovations in industry



Science in communist China II: scientists versus the state



Conclusion


Appendix


Glossary


Bibliography


Index