China and albert einstein

Klappentext This is the first extensive study in English or Chinese of China's reception of the celebrated physicist and his theory of relativity. In a series of biographical studies of Chinese physicists! Hu describes the Chinese assimilation of relativity and explains how Chinese physicists offered arguments and theories of their own. Hu's account concludes with the troubling story of the fate of foreign ideas such as Einstein's in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)! when the theory of relativity was denigrated along with Einstein's ideas on democracy and world peace. Zusammenfassung This is the first extensive study in English or Chinese of China’s reception of the celebrated physicist and his theory of relativity. In a series of biographical studies of Chinese physicists, Hu describes the Chinese assimilation of relativity and explains how Chinese physicists offered arguments and theories of their own.

Product details

• Authors: Danian Hu, Daniel Hu, Hu Danian
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.04.2005
• EAN: 9780674015388
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01538-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); China, Geography, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Asia / China, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, History of Science, Physics, c 1950 to c 1959, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)