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China and Albert Einstein :

(Number (ISBN

067401538X

(Number (ISBN

0674038886

(Number (ISBN

9780674015388

(Number (ISBN

9780674038882

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China and Albert Einstein :

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[Book]

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the reception of the physicist and his theory in China 1917-1979 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Danian Hu.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, MA :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2005.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) :

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illustrations

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Western physics comes to China -- China embraces the theory of relativity -- Six pioneers of relativity -- From eminent physicist to the "poor philosopher" -- Einstein: a hero reborn from the criticism.

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Annotation China and Albert Einstein is the first extensive study in English or Chinese of China's reception of the celebrated physicist and his theory of relativity. Tracing the influence of Jesuit missionaries in the seventeenth century and Western missionaries and educators in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as they introduced key concepts of Western physical science and paved the way for Einstein's radical new ideas, Danian Hu shows us that Chinese receptivity was fostered by the trickle of Chinese students sent abroad for study beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and by the openness of the May Fourth Movement (1916-1923). In a series of biographical studies of Chinese physicists, Hu describes the Chinese assimilation of relativity and explains how Chinese physicists offered arguments and theories of their own. Hu's account concludes with the troubling story of the fate of foreign ideas such as Einstein's in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), when the theory of relativity was denigrated along with Einstein's ideas on democracy and world peace. China and Albert Einstein is an important contribution to Einstein studies and a landmark work in the history of Chinese science.

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22573/ctvjf831t

Title

China and Albert Einstein.

International Standard Book Number

9780674015388

Einstein, Albert,1879-1955-- Influence.

Einstein, Albert,1879-1955-- Travel-- China.

Einstein, Albert-- Relativitätstheorie-- Rezeption-- China-- Geschichte 1917-1979.

Einstein, Albert,1879-1955.

Relativity (Physics)

HISTORY-- Asia-- China.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Relativitätstheorie-- Einstein, Albert-- Rezeption-- China-- Geschichte 1917-1979.

Relativity (Physics)

SCIENCE-- Physics-- Relativity.

Travel.

China, History, May Fourth movement, 1919.

China, Einstein, Albert, Relativitätstheorie, Rezeption, Geschichte 1917-1979.

China.

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HIS-- 008000

SCI-- 034000

SCI-- 061000

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Hu, Danian,1962-

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20200822121456.0

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