| Description |
1 online resource (309 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nationhood came to the fore. In Unearthing the Nation, Grace Yen Shen uses the development of modern geology to explore this complex relationship between science and nationalism in Republican China. Shen shows that Chinese geologists-in battling growing Western and Japanese encroachment of Chinese sovereignty. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : science, nation, and Chinese modernity -- The lay of the land : territoriality, foreign exploration, and modern geology in Qing China -- A host of nations : cosmopolitanism and the geological society of China -- The Nanjing decade : geological expansion and the state -- Resistance and reconstruction : emergence of a domestic community -- Conclusion : grounded visions. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Geology -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Geology. |
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China. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Geologists -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Nationalism and science.
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Nationalism and science. |
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Geologists. |
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- General. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shen, Grace Yen. Unearthing the nation. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014 9780226090405 (DLC) 2013019832 (OCoLC)845349915 |
| ISBN |
9780226090542 (electronic book) |
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022609054X (electronic book) |
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9781306428538 (MyiLibrary) |
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130642853X (MyiLibrary) |
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9780226090405 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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022609040X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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