Historical Dictionary of Science and Technology in Modern China

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence R. Sullivan is professor of political science at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, and a research associate at the East Asian Institute of Columbia University in New York City. He is the author of several works including Leadership and Authority in China: 1895-1976 (Lexington Books, 2012), Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Communist Party (Scarecrow Press, 2012) and Historical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China, Second Edition (Scarecrow Press, 2007).Nancy Y. Liu currently works on cancer research at the Sloan-Kettering Institute at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and is lecturer in the Department of Biology at the College of Staten Island in New York. She is the co-editor and co-translator of Ma Jun, China's Water Crisis (2004) and Dai Qing, The River Dragon has Come!: The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People (1998). Klappentext The historical dictionary provides information on science and technology in China from the late nineteenth century to the present including:·a chronology;·introduction; ·extensive bibliography;·over 700 cross-referenced dictionary entries on major scientific and technological fields and sub-fields; ·entries on western scholars and educators. Zusammenfassung The historical dictionary provides information on science and technology in China from the late nineteenth century to the present including:·a chronology;·introduction; ·extensive bibliography;·over 700 cross-referenced dictionary entries on major scientific and technological fields and sub-fields; ·entries on western scholars and educators.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Y Liu, Nancy Y. Liu, Nancy Liu-Sullivan, Nancy Y. Liu-Sullivan, Lawrence R Sullivan, Lawrence R. Sullivan, Lawrence R. Liu Sullivan, Lawrence R. Liu-Sullivan Sullivan, Sullivan Lawrence R.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2015
• EAN: 9780810878549
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-7854-9
• No. of pages: 626
• Series: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania and the Middle East; Historical Dictionaries of Asi; Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, SCIENCE / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of Science, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology