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Knowledge Production in Mao-Era China
Learning from the Masses
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2021
Summary
This book traces and analyzes the transformation of the public discourse of science and technology in Mao-era China. Based on extensive primary sources such as science dissemination materials and technical handbooks, as well as mass media products of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution periods, this book delineates the emergence of a pragmatic approach to knowledge in society. To achieve the goal of fast modernization with limited financial, human, and material resources, the party-state accommodated Western and local, "modern" and "traditional" knowledges in the fields of agricultural mechanization, steel production and Chinese veterinary medicine. The case studies demonstrate that scientific knowledge production in the Mao-era included various social groups and was entangled with political and cultural issues. This reveals and explains the continuity of scientific thinking across the historical divides of 1949 and 1978, which has hitherto been underestimated.
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Edition
1/2021
Copyright Year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-8461-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-8462-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
168
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One Defining Correct Science No access Pages 1 - 28
Chapter Two Creating the People’s Science No access Pages 29 - 58
Chapter Three Promising a Bright Future No access Pages 59 - 80
Chapter Four Producing Knowledge on the Shopfloor No access Pages 81 - 104
Chapter Five Creating a Bifurcated Knowledge System No access Pages 105 - 124
Chapter Six Re-shuffling Science in the Reform Era No access Pages 125 - 140
