Biophysics, Rockets, and the State: the Making of a Scientific Discipline in Twentieth-Century China

abstract: This study takes biophysics--a relatively new field with complex origins and contested definitions--as the research focus and investigates the history of disciplinary formation in twentieth-century China. The story of building a scientific discipline in modern China illustrates how a scien...

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Other Authors: Luk, Christine Yi Lai (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.24769