发表于2024-11-21
The People's Peking Man 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 科学史 海外中国研究 历史 社会史 PRC 舒喜乐 中国政治 英文原版
Peking Man”, discovered in the 1920s by an international team of scientists and miners, was deemed powerful evidence of human evolution. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man also became Exhibit A in the movement to bring science to the masses. Even Mao's populist commitment to mass participation in science, however, could not erase the capacity of popular culture - represented most strikingly in legends about the Bigfoot-like Wild Man - to reshape ideas about human nature.
In this elegant and persuasive account of paleo-anthropologic development in China, Sigrid Schmalzer rewrites our understanding of the relationship between Chinese social, scientific and political cultures. She shows the ways that the emergence of the modern Chinese state rested on both scientific developments in the area of paleo-anthropology, and the ways that they were deployed to combat long-standing popular superstitions in service of new political realities. Her book successfully places Darwinian concepts in the context of popular political history and the developing Chinese nation-state, and thereby makes a valuable contribution to the knowledge and development of the human sciences in China and beyond.
其实舒喜乐醉翁之意不在“北京人”和“野人”,而在于“科普”:既然民众是智慧源泉,又如何被贴上迷信落后的标签,以至于需要补科学的课?全书看下来,足见恩格斯《劳动在从猿到人转变过程中的作用》在社会主义中国的深远影响。反讽的是当人文、人道、人性、人权等等在人文学科领域被禁止谈论时,科学界却在忙着用恩格斯的“劳动创造了人”来定义、建构人的身份。北京人和民族主义情绪、认祖归宗情结的共谋;寻找、再现野人是用科学的方法来阐释神秘事物的一种努力(杜赞奇有一篇谈民国时期破除迷信运动的论文,尤为深刻,可参考)。值得深思的是当下所谓的“民科”和科学普及的关系、人类和兽类之间的边界和逾越(中西不同语境)。
评分有意思的书,特别是关于科学教育
评分humanity是怎麼被涵擴與共產主義的宣傳話語之中,自上而下的科學普及與自下而上的大衆科學之間有怎樣的緊張關係,又是怎樣在歷史進程、政治變化中呈現的。有意思的一個事情:有書評討論這本書到底爲什麼要在所有的拼音中標上音調。。
评分有意思的书,特别是关于科学教育
评分其实舒喜乐醉翁之意不在“北京人”和“野人”,而在于“科普”:既然民众是智慧源泉,又如何被贴上迷信落后的标签,以至于需要补科学的课?全书看下来,足见恩格斯《劳动在从猿到人转变过程中的作用》在社会主义中国的深远影响。反讽的是当人文、人道、人性、人权等等在人文学科领域被禁止谈论时,科学界却在忙着用恩格斯的“劳动创造了人”来定义、建构人的身份。北京人和民族主义情绪、认祖归宗情结的共谋;寻找、再现野人是用科学的方法来阐释神秘事物的一种努力(杜赞奇有一篇谈民国时期破除迷信运动的论文,尤为深刻,可参考)。值得深思的是当下所谓的“民科”和科学普及的关系、人类和兽类之间的边界和逾越(中西不同语境)。
The People's Peking Man 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书