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In this 2001 book Yung-chen Chiang tells the story of the origins, hopes, visions and achievements of the social sciences movement in China during the first half of the twentieth century. He focuses on the efforts of social scientists at three institutions - the Yanjing Sociology Department, Nankai Institute of Economics, and Chen Hansheng's Marxist agrarian research enterprise - to relate their disciplines to the needs of Chinese society. As all three groups received funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, their stories offer a unique window on to Sino-American interactions, revealing how the social sciences became a lingua franca of the cultural frontier. Drawing on an impressive variety of archival materials used here for the first time, this study corrects and enriches current scholarship, presenting both a more detailed and panoramic view. Chiang's analysis engages the complex and broader issues of the transfer, indigenization and international patronage of social science disciplines.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Mathematics & science Science: general issues History of science

• Full title: Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919-1949
• Author: Yung-chen Chiang
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780521027243
• ISBN: 0521027241
• ID: 02018708
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 480 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. June 2006

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