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OverviewDuring the early decades of the Cold War, the People's Republic of China remained outside much of mainstream international science. Nevertheless, Chinese scientists found alternative channels through which to communicate and interact with counterparts across the world, beyond simple East/West divides. By examining the international activities of elite Chinese scientists, Gordon Barrett demonstrates that these activities were deeply embedded in the Chinese Communist Party's wider efforts to win hearts and minds from the 1940s to the 1970s. Using a wide range of archival material, including declassified documents from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archive, Barrett provides fresh insights into the relationship between science and foreign relations in the People's Republic of China. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.550kg ISBN: 9781108844574ISBN 10: 110884457 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 25 August 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Note on the text; List of key abbreviations; Introduction; 1. A Scientific United Front at Home and Abroad: Chinese Communist Party-Aligned Science Organisations and the World Federation of Scientific Workers, 1946–1956; 2. Between Pugwash and the party-state: Scientists, agency, and transnational activism in the early Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, 1955–1960; 3. 'Friends and comrades, we fight against imperialism': The radical evolution of China's science diplomacy, 1960–1968; 4. Linking the local, national, and international: Scientific organisations and foreign affairs in the 'Peking Science Symposium' conferences, 1964–1966; 5. A spectrum of propaganda and scientific exchange: British socialist scientists and 'New China'; Conclusion: Situating scientists in China's foreign relations; Select bibliography; Index.Reviews'Original, deeply researched, masterful: Barrett's compelling and well-written volume provides new insights into China's influence on Cold War scientific internationalism.' Ronald E. Doel, Florida State University 'This sophisticated and lucid study is a major addition to scholarship on Mao-era China. It illuminates how - decades before the People's Republic of China emerged as a science and technology superpower - the country created an international position for itself through scientific engagement. Gordon Barrett's new book is the go-to work on this essential topic.' Julia Lovell, Birkbeck University of London 'Based on extensive archival research, this book demonstrates the significance of Mao-era science diplomacy-from the Pugwash conferences, to the World Federation of Science Workers, to the Peking Science Symposia and beyond. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the roots of China's rise in international science and technology.' Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst 'Gordon Barrett has probed deeply into a variety of sources in writing this interesting and suggestive book. He offers new insights into how science served China's united-front operations … the study also prompts us to think more carefully about science and international affairs in our current era of transnational science and technology.' Richard P. Suttmeier, H-Sci-Med-Tech 'In this ambitious analysis of Bavarian tourism from the early nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, Adam T. Rosenbaum offers fresh language for making sense of the German encounter with modernity.' Robert Terrell, H-TGS (h-net.org) 'Gordon Barrett has probed deeply into a variety of sources in writing this interesting and suggestive book. He offers new insights into how science served China's united-front operations in the period leading up to the establishment of the People's Republic.' Richard P. Suttmeier, H-Sci-Med-Tech (h-net.org) 'I found this book particularly interesting, not simply for the quality of its scholarship, but also for the light it throws on the dynamics of transnational knowledge flows that are often obscured in studies of science diplomacy.' John Krige, The British Journal of the History of Science 'Anyone interested in scientific aspects of China's recent history will find this a well-documented and informative work. … Highly recommended.' J. W. Dauben, Choice 'Original, deeply researched, masterful: Barrett's compelling and well-written volume provides new insights into China's influence on Cold War scientific internationalism.' Ronald E. Doel, Florida State University 'This sophisticated and lucid study is a major addition to scholarship on Mao-era China. It illuminates how - decades before the People's Republic of China emerged as a science and technology superpower - the country created an international position for itself through scientific engagement. Gordon Barrett's new book is the go-to work on this essential topic.' Julia Lovell, Birkbeck University of London 'Based on extensive archival research, this book demonstrates the significance of Mao-era science diplomacy-from the Pugwash conferences, to the World Federation of Science Workers, to the Peking Science Symposia and beyond. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the roots of China's rise in international science and technology.' Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst Author InformationGordon Barrett is Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Politics at University of Oxford. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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