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The Study of Change - Chemistry in China, 1840-1949 (Hardcover, New)
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The Study of Change - Chemistry in China, 1840-1949 (Hardcover, New)
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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 fared 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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