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The Study of Change: Chemistry in China, 1840 1949

The Study of Change: Chemistry in China, 1840 1949

Reardon-Anderson, James

Paperback

Series: Studies of the East Asian Institute

Technology & EngineeringSports GeneralChemistry

ISBN10: 0521533252
ISBN13: 9780521533256
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 2 2003
Pages: 468
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.04 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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