The people's Peking man popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China /

Main Author: Schmalzer, Sigrid.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10288701
Table of Contents:
  • "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-Mβao Era
  • "From legend to science," and back again? : Bigfoot, science, and the people in post-Mβao China
  • "Have we dug at our ancestral shrine?" : post-Mβao ethnic nationalism and its limits.