People s Peking Man Popular Science and Human Identity in - Twentiethcentury Chin

Klappentext Offers a social history of Chinese paleoanthropology and a cultural - and at times comparative - history of assumptions and debates about what it means to be human. Focusing on issues that push against the boundaries of science and politics! this book offers an innovative approach to modern Chinese history and the history of science. Zusammenfassung Offers a social history of Chinese paleoanthropology and a cultural - and at times comparative - history of assumptions and debates about what it means to be human. Focusing on issues that push against the boundaries of science and politics! this book offers an innovative approach to modern Chinese history and the history of science.

Product details

• Authors: S Schmalzer, Sigrid Schmalzer, Schmalzer Sigrid
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2008
• EAN: 9780226738604
• ISBN: 978-0-226-73860-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, SCIENCE / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, History of Science, Early Man, Evolutionary anthropology / Human evolution