Overview
Using the field of genetics as a case study, this book follows the troubled development of modern natural science in China from the 1920s, through Mao's China, to the present post-socialist era. Through detailed portraits of key scientists and institutions, basic dilemmas are explored: how to control nature with science, how to gain independence from foreign-controlled science, how to get scientists out from under control of ideology and the state. Using the field of genetics as a case study, this book follows the troubled development of modern natural science in China from the 1920s, through Mao's China, to the present post-socialist era. Through detailed portraits of key scientists and institutions, basic dilemmas are explored: how to control nature with science, how to gain independence from foreign-controlled science, how to get scientists out from under control of ideology and the state.
- | Author: Laurence Schneider
- | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- | Publication Date: Sep 10, 2003
- | Number of Pages: 320 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0742526968
- | ISBN-13: 9780742526969
