Knowledge Production in Mao-Era China - Learning From the Masses

This book examines public discourse on the production and dissemination of scientific and technological knowledge in Mao-era China. With three case studies on agricultural mechanization, steel production, and veterinary medicine, the authors argue that the party-state pursued a pragmatist model of modernization.

List of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Defining Correct Science-Transformations of Knowledge Epistemologies
Chapter 2 Creating the People's Science: Science Dissemination as a Social Process
Chapter 3 Promising a Bright Future: The (Half-)Mechanization of Agricultural Production
Chapter 4 Producing Knowledge on the Shopfloor: Technological Innovation in Socialist
Industrialization
Chapter 5 Creating a Bifurcated Knowledge System-the Case of Chinese Veterinary Medicine
Chapter 6 Re-shuffling Science in the Reform Era
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Rui Kunze and Marc Andre Matten

Summary

This book examines public discourse on the production and dissemination of scientific and technological knowledge in Mao-era China. With three case studies on agricultural mechanization, steel production, and veterinary medicine, the authors argue that the party-state pursued a pragmatist model of modernization.

Product details

• Authors: Rui Kunze, Rui Matten Kunze, Matten Marc Andre Matten, Marc Andre Matten, Matten Marc Andre, Kunze Rui Kunze
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781498584630
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8463-0
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, HISTORY / Asia / China, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, Asian History, History of engineering & technology