Author: Willliam J. Haas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315481278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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A biography of an important but little-known American scientist that evokes the issues of religious and secular beliefs and the evolution of Chinese scientific and educational institutions during the early 1900s.
Author: James Harrison Wilson
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Author: Laurence A. Schneider
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742553064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Using the field of genetics as a case study, this book follows the troubled development of modern natural science in China from the 1920s, through Mao's China, to the present post-socialist era. Through detailed portraits of key scientists and institutions, basic dilemmas are explored: how to control nature with science, how to gain independence from foreign-controlled science, how to get scientists out from under control of ideology and the state. Using the field of genetics as a case study, this book follows the troubled development of modern natural science in China from the 1920s, through Mao's China, to the present post-socialist era. Through detailed portraits of key scientists and institutions, basic dilemmas are explored: how to control nature with science, how to gain independence from foreign-controlled science, how to get scientists out from under control of ideology and the state.
Author: Frederic E. Wakeman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198296171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Leading scholars review many aspects of contemporary research on Chinese politics, ranging from the influence of fascism on Chiang Kai-Shek to the transition from the Qing dynasty to the Republic. Relevant for all interested in the key period in China between Monarchy and Communism.
Author: Morris Rossabi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520946138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk from China called Rabban Sauma was making the reverse journey from the Mongol capital (what is now Beijing) to Jerusalem. Upon reaching Baghdad—the first traveler to arrive from China—Sauma learned that his pilgrimage could not be fulfilled because of Islamic control of the Holy Land. In Voyager from Xanadu, Morris Rossabi traces Sauma’s trans-Eurasian travels against the turbulent era of the Mongol Empire and the last Crusades. His indispensable book provides a unique first-hand Asian perspective on Europe and illuminates a crucial period in the early history of global, diplomatic, and commercial networking.
Author: Stacey Bieler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317478347
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 545
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This title sxplores the love-hate relationship between the USA and China through the experience of Chinese students caught between the two countries. The book sheds light on China's ambivelance towards the Western influence, and the use of educational and cultural exhanges as a political device.
Author: Karl S. Matlin
Publisher:
ISBN: 022667293X
Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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"Since the middle of the 19th century, biologists have migrated to the seashore to study marine organisms as a way of understanding life. By the turn of the 20th century, such work was being done inside permanent seaside field stations. The Stazione Zoologica, in Naples, Italy (from 1874), and the Marine Biological Laboratory, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts (from 1888), attracted leaders in many biological fields, and helped establish biology as a modern science. Why Study Biology by the Sea? tells the story of these unique scientific institutions while attempting to answer the contemporary question, "Why study biology by the sea?" The volume examines the origins and value of these places via perspectives that range from cell biology to philosophy of science"--
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Author: Kuno Francke
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Author: Kuno Francke
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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