booktheque

Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution

Chunjuan Nancy Wei, Chunjuan Nancy Wei, Darryl E. Brock, Sigrid Schmalzer · 2014

Where to buy

Amazon’s price changes daily, so the most accurate place to see it is there, at the moment you buy.

View on Amazon

About the book

"Contributors approach the challenge of interpreting the science and technology of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution from different viewpoints, some as China-based scholars, others in the United States, and representing views of historians, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, literary scholars, and mathematicians. These scholars also represent a spectrum regarding their sense for the Cultural Revolution, ranging from skeptics who perceive little in the way of innovation or benefit from that period, to those who are agnostic, seeking evidence for S&T innovation, and others who lived through the Cultural Revolution, arguing the world has much yet to learn from socialist science"--

Book details

Year
2014
Language
English
Publisher
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Editions
5
Pages
426
ISBN
9781498503884

Data source: Wikidata