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The people's Peking man

Schmalzer, Sigrid.

The people's Peking man popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China / [electronic resource] : Sigrid Schmalzer. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008. - xix, 346 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-326) and index.

"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-M�ao Era -- "From legend to science," and back again? : Bigfoot, science, and the people in post-M�ao China -- "Have we dug at our ancestral shrine?" : post-M�ao ethnic nationalism and its limits.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.





GBA890571 bnb

Uk


Peking man.
Paleoanthropology--China.
Communism and science--China.


Electronic books.

GN284.7 / .S36 2008eb

569.90951

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