Knowledge Production in Mao-Era China

This book examines public discourse on the production and dissemination of scientific and technological knowledge in Mao-era China. With three case studies on agricultural mechanization, steel production, and veterinary medicine, the authors argue that the party-state pursued a pragmatist model of modernization.

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Defining Correct Science-Transformations of Knowledge Epistemologies
Chapter 2 Creating the People's Science: Science Dissemination as a Social Process
Chapter 3 Promising a Bright Future: The (Half-)Mechanization of Agricultural Production
Chapter 4 Producing Knowledge on the Shopfloor: Technological Innovation in Socialist
Industrialization
Chapter 5 Creating a Bifurcated Knowledge System-the Case of Chinese Veterinary Medicine
Chapter 6 Re-shuffling Science in the Reform Era
Bibliography
Index
About the Author