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Luk, Yi Lai Christine.

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Biophysics, Rockets, and the State: the Making of a Scientific Discipline in Twentieth-Century China.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Biophysics, Rockets, and the State: the Making of a Scientific Discipline in Twentieth-Century China./
作者:	Luk, Yi Lai Christine.
面頁冊數:	299 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-07A(E).
標題:	Science history. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3615280
ISBN:	9781303811777

Biophysics, Rockets, and the State: the Making of a Scientific Discipline in Twentieth-Century China.
Luk, Yi Lai Christine.

Biophysics, Rockets, and the State: the Making of a Scientific Discipline in Twentieth-Century China. - 299 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This study takes biophysics---a relatively new field with complex origins and contested definitions---as the research focus and investigates the history of disciplinary formation in twentieth-century China. The story of building a scientific discipline in modern China illustrates how a science specialty evolved from an ambiguous and amorphous field into a full-fledged academic discipline in specific socio-institutional contexts. It focuses on archival sources and historical writings concerning the constitution and definition of biophysics in order to examine the relationship between particular scientific styles, national priorities, and institutional opportunities in the People's Republic of China. It argues that Chinese biophysicists exhibited a different style of conceiving and organizing their discipline by adapting to the institutional structure and political economy that had been created since 1949.

ISBN: 9781303811777Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144850
Science history.

Biophysics, Rockets, and the State: the Making of a Scientific Discipline in Twentieth-Century China.
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