| Description |
1 online resource (309 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : science, nation, and Chinese modernity -- The lay of the land : territoriality, foreign exploration, and modern geology in Qing China -- A host of nations : cosmopolitanism and the geological society of China -- The Nanjing decade : geological expansion and the state -- Resistance and reconstruction : emergence of a domestic community -- Conclusion : grounded visions |
| Summary |
Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nationhood came to the fore. In Unearthing the Nation, Grace Yen Shen uses the development of modern geology to explore this complex relationship between science and nationalism in Republican China. Shen shows that Chinese geologists-in battling growing Western and Japanese encroachment of Chinese sovereignty |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Geology -- China -- History -- 20th century
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Geologists -- China -- History -- 20th century
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Nationalism and science.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- General.
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Geologists
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Geology
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Nationalism and science
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226090542 |
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022609054X |
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9781306428538 |
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130642853X |
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