The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of
pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and
Republican China range from botanists to ethnographers to
missionaries. Although a diverse lot, all believed in objective,
progressive, and universally valid science; a close association
between scientific and humanistic knowledge; a lack of conflict
between science and faith; and the union of the natural world and
the world of "nature people." "Explorers and Scientists in China's
Borderlands" examines their cultural and personal assumptions while
emphasizing their remarkable lives, and considers their
contributions to a body of knowledge that has important
contemporary significance.
Essays are devoted to D. C. Graham, Joseph Rock, Reginald Farrer
and George Forrest, Ernest Henry Wilson, Paul Vial, Johan Gunnar
Andersson and Ding Wenjiang, and Friedrich Weiss and Hedwig
Weiss-Sonnenburg. Richly illustrated with historic photographs,
this collection reveals the extraordinary lives and times of these
remarkable people.
Denise M. Glover is visiting assistant professor of
anthropology, University of Puget Sound; Stevan Harrell is
professor of anthropology, University of Washington; Charles F.
McKhann is professor of anthropology, Whitman College; Margaret
Byrne Swain is associate adjunct professor of women and gender
studies, University of California, Davis. The other contributors
are Magnus Fiskesjo, Paul Harris, He Jiangyu, Geng Jing, Jeff
Kyong-McClain, Erk Mueggler, Alan Waxman, Paul Weissich, Tamara
Wyss, and Alvin Yoshinaga.
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