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

Rui Kunze is a research fellow at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nüremberg.

Marc Andre Matten is professor of contemporary Chinese history at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nüremberg.

Product details

• Authors: Rui Kunze, Rui Matten Kunze, Marc Andre Matten, Matten Marc Andre
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2021
• EAN: 9781498584616
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8461-6
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; China, HISTORY / Asia / China, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, Asian History, History of engineering & technology