Despite the verdict of the Cultural Revolution as a disaster for China, a number of scholars have called for reexamining socialist science under Mao’s aegis. This collection examines the viewpoints on social and scientific enterprises of that era, probing medicine, the space program and the one-child policy as outcomes of earlier Maoist science.
Despite the verdict of the Cultural Revolution as a disaster for China, a number of scholars have called for reexamining socialist science under Mao’s aegis. This collection examines the viewpoints on social and scientific enterprises of that era, probing medicine, the space program and the one-child policy as outcomes of earlier Maoist science.
Chunjuan Nancy Wei is associate professor and chair of the International Political Economy & Diplomacy program at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, with a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University, and her work appears in New Dynamics in East Asian Politics (2012). Darryl E. Brockis a Ph.D. candidate in modern history at Fordham University in New York City, with an M.A. in history from Claremont Graduate University, and is author of the book China and Darwinian Evolution: Influence on Intellectual and Social Development (2010).
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword by Joseph W. Dauben Acknowledgments PART I. INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. Introduction: Reassessing the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, by Darryl E. Brock and Chunjuan Nancy Wei Chapter 2. The People's Landscape: Mr. Science and the Mass Line, by Darryl E. Brock PART II. SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION Chapter 3. Science Imperiled: Intellectuals and the Cultural Revolution, by Cong Cao Chapter 4. Screening the Maoist Mr. Science: Breaking with Old Ideas and Constructing the Post-Capitalist University, by Michael A. Mikita PART III. SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION Chapter 5. Dialectics of Numbers: Marxism, Maoism, and the Calculus of Infinitesimals, by Yibao Xu Chapter 6. Ideology and Cosmology: Maoist Discussion on Physics and the Cultural Revolution, by Yinghong Cheng Chapter 7. Space for the People: China's Aerospace Industry and the Cultural Revolution, by Stacey Solomone Chapter 8. Barefoot Doctors: The Legacy of Chairman Mao's Healthcare, by Chunjuan Nancy Wei Chapter 9. Rural Agriculture: Scientific and Technological Development during the Cultural Revolution, by Dongping Han PART IV. THE POST-MAO SPRINGTIME FOR SCIENCE Chapter 10. Missile Science, Population Science: The Origins of China's One-Child Policy, by Susan Greenhalgh Chapter 11. Worker Innovation: Did Maoist Promotion Contribute to China's Present Technological and Economic Success?, by Rudi Volti Chapter 12. On the Appropriate Use of Rose-Colored Glasses: Reflections on Science in Socialist China, by Sigrid Schmalzer Selected Bibliography Index Contributors
Foreword by Joseph W. Dauben Acknowledgments PART I. INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. Introduction: Reassessing the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, by Darryl E. Brock and Chunjuan Nancy Wei Chapter 2. The People's Landscape: Mr. Science and the Mass Line, by Darryl E. Brock PART II. SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION Chapter 3. Science Imperiled: Intellectuals and the Cultural Revolution, by Cong Cao Chapter 4. Screening the Maoist Mr. Science: Breaking with Old Ideas and Constructing the Post-Capitalist University, by Michael A. Mikita PART III. SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION Chapter 5. Dialectics of Numbers: Marxism, Maoism, and the Calculus of Infinitesimals, by Yibao Xu Chapter 6. Ideology and Cosmology: Maoist Discussion on Physics and the Cultural Revolution, by Yinghong Cheng Chapter 7. Space for the People: China's Aerospace Industry and the Cultural Revolution, by Stacey Solomone Chapter 8. Barefoot Doctors: The Legacy of Chairman Mao's Healthcare, by Chunjuan Nancy Wei Chapter 9. Rural Agriculture: Scientific and Technological Development during the Cultural Revolution, by Dongping Han PART IV. THE POST-MAO SPRINGTIME FOR SCIENCE Chapter 10. Missile Science, Population Science: The Origins of China's One-Child Policy, by Susan Greenhalgh Chapter 11. Worker Innovation: Did Maoist Promotion Contribute to China's Present Technological and Economic Success?, by Rudi Volti Chapter 12. On the Appropriate Use of Rose-Colored Glasses: Reflections on Science in Socialist China, by Sigrid Schmalzer Selected Bibliography Index Contributors
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