Knowledge acts in modern China

• Titel: Knowledge acts in modern China
• Titelzusatz: ideas, institutions, and identities
• Mitwirkende: Culp, Robert Joseph [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: U, Eddy [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Yeh, Wen-Hsin [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Robert Culp, Eddy U, and Wen-hsin Yeh.
• Verlagsort: Berkeley, CA
• Verlag: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
• Jahr: 2016
• Umfang: xii, 382 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 23 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: China research monograph ; 73
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Introduction: Knowledge systems, knowledge producers, and China's distinctive modernity / Robert Culp and Eddy U. Part I. New systems of academic learning. Coming to terms with global competition : the rise of historical geography in early twentieth-century China / Tze-ki Hon. Drawing boundaries in sand : anthropology in republican China / Clayton Brown. Part II. Technical knowledge and the professions. From literati to legal professionals : the first generation of Chinese law school graduates and their career patterns / Huei-min Sun. The Chinese judge : from Literatus to cadre, 1906-1949 / Glenn Tiffert. The making of the civil engineer in China : knowledge transfer, institution building, and the rise of a profession / Elisabeth Køll. Part III. Media and the market. Economics with Chinese characteristics : the production of economic knowledge in early republican China / Bryna Goodman. Mass production of knowledge and the industrialization of mental labor : the rise of thepetty intellectual / Robert Culp. Journalism as a field of knowledge in republican China : ideas, institutions, and politics / Timothy Weston. Part IV. Party control and construction. Looking toward the future : state standardization and professionalization of science in wartime China / J. Megan Greene. Making Maoism : ideology and organizations in the Yan'an rectification movement, 1942-44 / Timothy Cheek. The formation of intellectuals in Yan'an / Eddy U
• ISBN: 978-1-55729-170-7
• ISBN: 1-55729-170-5
• Schlagwörter: (g)China / (s)Bildungswesen / (s)Geistesleben / (s)Kulturelle Identität / (s)Sozialer Wandel / (s)Politischer Wandel / (z)Geschichte
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 842335587

Abstract

"This book examines as interrelated processes the reception of foreign systems of thought, the construction of modern academic and professional disciplines, and the emergence of new social identities in twentieth-century China after the fall of the imperial state and with the rise of political parties and mass nationalism"--