The Making of the Human Sciences in China - Historical and Conceptual Foundations

This volume provides a history of how "the human" has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present.

About the author

Howard Chiang, Ph.D. (2012), Princeton University, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (Columbia, 2018) and editor of Sexuality in China: Histories of Power and Pleasure (Washington, 2018).

Product details

• Assisted by: Howard Chiang (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2019
• EAN: 9789004397613
• ISBN: 978-90-04-39761-3
• No. of pages: 566
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Series: China Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General