Explorers & Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950

Denise M Glover

ISBN 10: 0295991186 / ISBN 13: 9780295991184

Edité par University Of Washington Press Sep 2011, 2011

A propos de cet article

Neuware - 'Profiles pioneering Euro-American scientists and explorers in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century China'--.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Explorers & Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950
• Éditeur: University Of Washington Press Sep 2011
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0295991186
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780295991184
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 228 L x 151 H x 25 P (en millimètres) 228 millimètres de largeur par 151 millimètres de hauteur par 25 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 537 grammes

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Synopsis

The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range from botanists to ethnographers to missionaries. Although a diverse lot, all believed in objective, progressive, and universally valid science; a close association between scientific and humanistic knowledge; a lack of conflict between science and faith; and the union of the natural world and the world of "nature people." Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands examines their cultural and personal assumptions while emphasizing their remarkable lives, and considers their contributions to a body of knowledge that has important contemporary significance.

Essays are devoted to D. C. Graham, Joseph Rock, Reginald Farrer and George Forrest, Ernest Henry Wilson, Paul Vial, Johan Gunnar Andersson and Ding Wenjiang, and Friedrich Weiss and Hedwig Weiss-Sonnenburg. Richly illustrated with historic photographs, this collection reveals the extraordinary lives and times of these remarkable people.

À propos des auteurs

Denise M. Glover is visiting assistant professor in sociology and anthropology at the University of Puget Sound, and has conducted ethnographic research on Tibetan medicine. She is coeditor of Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950 (University of Washington Press, 2011).

Stevan Harrell is professor emeritus of anthropology and environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington. He is the author of Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China (University of Washington Press, 2001) and An Ecological History of Modern China (University of Washington Press, 2023); and editor of the University of Washington Press book series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.