圖書標籤: 科學史 海外中國研究 曆史 社會史 PRC 舒喜樂 中國政治 英文原版
发表于2024-11-24
The People's Peking Man pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Peking Man”, discovered in the 1920s by an international team of scientists and miners, was deemed powerful evidence of human evolution. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man also became Exhibit A in the movement to bring science to the masses. Even Mao's populist commitment to mass participation in science, however, could not erase the capacity of popular culture - represented most strikingly in legends about the Bigfoot-like Wild Man - to reshape ideas about human nature.
In this elegant and persuasive account of paleo-anthropologic development in China, Sigrid Schmalzer rewrites our understanding of the relationship between Chinese social, scientific and political cultures. She shows the ways that the emergence of the modern Chinese state rested on both scientific developments in the area of paleo-anthropology, and the ways that they were deployed to combat long-standing popular superstitions in service of new political realities. Her book successfully places Darwinian concepts in the context of popular political history and the developing Chinese nation-state, and thereby makes a valuable contribution to the knowledge and development of the human sciences in China and beyond.
一部Paleoanthropology在現代中國的曆史。這一看似偏僻的學科在中國現代史中的重要地位,來自國族構造中樹立祖先,以及共産主義的階級革命之“勞動創造人”論述的政治需要。除瞭討論這一學科知識的政治性,作者還討論瞭共産主義體製下(四十年代至七十年代末)“科學普及”到“群眾路綫科學”諸運動中國傢、科學傢、群眾諸角色的互動角力。本書另外一個有趣的綫索是關於“野人”,這一位於科學/迷信/僞科學邊界的形象,在不同時期都承載瞭這幾個領域的邊界在政治經濟境況下滑動挪移的張力。
評分"reexamine science in the Cultural Revolution by taking seriously one of the stated goals of the time, the promotion of popular science”
評分書是好書,但是未免太過於冗長囉嗦瞭,看到後麵幾章有點乏味。雖然題是北京人,但關注的是科學傳播和意識形態的勾連,北京人僅僅隻是其中一部分。野心足夠,也因為如此閑筆太多。此外由於一些眾所周知的原因,整本書沒有使用很多重要檔案,隻能過多地倚重齣版物和人物訪談,導緻敘述無法觸及科學傳播的上層和底層,實屬無奈之舉。
評分書是好書,但是未免太過於冗長囉嗦瞭,看到後麵幾章有點乏味。雖然題是北京人,但關注的是科學傳播和意識形態的勾連,北京人僅僅隻是其中一部分。野心足夠,也因為如此閑筆太多。此外由於一些眾所周知的原因,整本書沒有使用很多重要檔案,隻能過多地倚重齣版物和人物訪談,導緻敘述無法觸及科學傳播的上層和底層,實屬無奈之舉。
評分Schmalzer真是戰鬥力爆錶啊,今年又齣瞭專著講農業革命,圖書館剛到貨已經2個hold瞭...Umass在科學議題上也是戰鬥機,難道是因為靠近MIT?有定期的SF club真誘人(跑題瞭..)重點看瞭50s的科普和群眾科學運動的衝突,“龍骨”與“化石”的辯證關係和詞匯選擇很耐人尋味。群眾科學與迷信之間的移動界定同樣意味深長。
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The People's Peking Man pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024