Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s

Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s looks at the transnational routes for the development of science and technology in the first pivotal decades of modern China.

About the author

Jing Tsu, Ph.D. (2001), Harvard University, is Professor of Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her publications include Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937 (Stanford, 2005) and Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora (Harvard, 2010).

Benjamin Elman, Ph.D. (1980), University of Pennsylvania, is Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University. His publications include On Their Own Terms: Science in China 1550-1900 (Harvard, 2005), A Cultural History of Modern Science in China (Harvard, 2006), Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2013).

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2014
• EAN: 9789004258532
• ISBN: 978-90-04-25853-2
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: China Studies
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General