Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0295991186 ISBN 13: 9780295991184

Verlag: University of Washington Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0295991186
• ISBN 13: 9780295991184
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Herausgeber: Glover Denise M., Harrell Stevan, McKhann Charles F., Swain Margaret Byrne
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