Author: | Darryl E. Brock, Cong Cao, Yinghong Cheng, Susan Greenhalgh, Dongping Han, Michael A. Mikita, Sigrid Schmalzer, Stacey Solomone, Rudi Volti, Chunjuan Nancy Wei, Yibao Xu | ISBN: | 9780739149751 |
Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | December 14, 2012 |
Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
Author: | Darryl E. Brock, Cong Cao, Yinghong Cheng, Susan Greenhalgh, Dongping Han, Michael A. Mikita, Sigrid Schmalzer, Stacey Solomone, Rudi Volti, Chunjuan Nancy Wei, Yibao Xu |
ISBN: | 9780739149751 |
Publisher: | Lexington Books |
Publication: | December 14, 2012 |
Imprint: | Lexington Books |
Language: | English |
Despite the verdict of the Cultural Revolution as a disaster for China, a number of scholars have called for re-examining socialist science under Mao’s aegis. Western observers once found much to admire in Chairman Mao’s mass science, with its origins in the May Fourth era. This collection represents diverse viewpoints on social and scientific enterprises of that era, probing medicine, the space program and even the one-child policy as direct outcomes of earlier Maoist science.
Despite the verdict of the Cultural Revolution as a disaster for China, a number of scholars have called for re-examining socialist science under Mao’s aegis. Western observers once found much to admire in Chairman Mao’s mass science, with its origins in the May Fourth era. This collection represents diverse viewpoints on social and scientific enterprises of that era, probing medicine, the space program and even the one-child policy as direct outcomes of earlier Maoist science.