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Poor, Galen M.

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The Four Great Inventions: Technology, History, and Nationalism in Modern China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Four Great Inventions: Technology, History, and Nationalism in Modern China./
Author:	Poor, Galen M.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	300 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-04A.
Subject:	History. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28091773
ISBN:	9798672178097

The Four Great Inventions: Technology, History, and Nationalism in Modern China.
Poor, Galen M.

The Four Great Inventions: Technology, History, and Nationalism in Modern China. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 300 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2020.

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

Despite the rapid political transformations in China from the late nineteenth century onward - the late Qing dynasty, the Republican period, and Communist rule - the quest to master science and technology remained vital to the goal of nation-building. But how did intellectual and political elites draw the Chinese people into this effort? In the early twentieth century, reformist intellectuals, nationalist politicians, and commercial publishers seized upon a long-standing narrative of the four great inventions of ancient China (si da faming 四大发明), which originated in sixteenth-century Europe, arguing that gunpowder, printing, paper, and the compass had changed the world. Popularizing this narrative not only provided an antecedent to China's modernization, it also offered an inspiring vision of China's becoming in the world. While many Chinese historians have focused on the great inventions as an example of the nationalist ideology that contributed to the establishment of the history of science in academia, fewer scholars have followed the great inventions narrative across domestic and global divides of knowledge production, where the inventions became evidence for both Westerners and Chinese supporting the logic of progress through science. I argue in this dissertation that the understanding of scientific progress and East-West relations have been intimately entwined since the beginning of the Enlightenment in the seventeenth century, and that it still serves as one of the most recognized motifs in discussions about China's past, present, and future integrations with the contemporary world.

ISBN: 9798672178097Subjects--Topical Terms:

516518
History.
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Modern China

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