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 | | The Study of Change: Chemistry in China, 1840-1949 (Studies of the East Asian Institute) by James Reardon-Anderson ISBN-10: 9780521391504 ISBN-10: 0-521-39150-4 ISBN-13: 9780521391504 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-39150-4 Hardcover 1991-02-22 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description 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 well at times when a balance was struck between political authority and free social development. Based on Chinese and English sources, the narrative moves from detailed descriptions of particular chemical processes and innovations to more general discussions of intellectual and social history, and provides a fascinating account of an important episode in the intellectual history of modern China. | ||
Book Description 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. | ||
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A struggle A well suited book for the student of science history. It covers a hitherto much neglected topic - how chemistry developed in China, from 1840 to the rise of Communism. It describes many Chinese scientists who largely remain unknown outside China. Most of the book of course describes how these scientists attempted valiently to catch up to the Europeans. In the face of much government and public indifference. We see how the scientists struggled with derisory funding. Perhaps it is remarkable that such progress as was made actually happened at all. | ||