The people's Peking man [electronic resource] : popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China / Sigrid Schmalzer.
Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: xix, 346 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 569.90951 22
- GN284.7 .S36 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-326) and index.
"From 'dragon bones' to scientific research" : Peking Man and popular paleoanthropology in pre-1949 China -- "A united front against superstition" : science dissemination, 1940-1971 -- "The content of human" : in search of human identity, 1940-1971 -- "Labor created science" : the class politics of scientific knowledge, 1940-1971 -- "Presumptuous guests usurp the hosts" : dissemination and participation, 1971-1978 -- "Springtime for science," but what a garden : mystery, superstition, and fanatics in the post-M�ao Era -- "From legend to science," and back again? : Bigfoot, science, and the people in post-M�ao China -- "Have we dug at our ancestral shrine?" : post-M�ao ethnic nationalism and its limits.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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