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  1. The Evolution of Evolutionism in China, 1870–1930.Xiaoxing Jin - 2020 - Isis 111 (1):46-66.
    The earliest references to Darwin in China, which came by way of the network of Protestant missionaries, emerged in the early 1870s: the principle of general transformism and ideas about human origins were transmitted to the Chinese intellectual landscape. Only with the “evolutionary sensation” aroused by Yan Fu, in the mid-1890s, did Chinese readers begin to learn of Darwinian principles like the “struggle for existence” and “natural selection.” Translation of the Origin began much later, in 1902, and the initial effort (...)
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  2. Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China. [REVIEW]Leon Rocha - 2014 - Isis 105 (2):467-468.
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  3. Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture. [REVIEW]Grace Shen - 2014 - Isis 105 (2):416-416.
  4. Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China.Shellen X. Wu - 2014 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 48:38-41.
  5. The Crafting of the Ten Thousand Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China. [REVIEW]Chu Pingyi - 2012 - Isis 103:407-408.
  6. Understanding the Planets in Ancient China: Prediction and Divination in the Wu xing zhan.Christopher Cullen - 2011 - Early Science and Medicine 16 (3):218-251.
    The untitled and anonymous text known by modern scholars under the name Wu xing zhan 'Prognostics of the Five Stars [sc. 'planets']', datable to before 168 bce, is the earliest known surviving Chinese document to give a substantive account of the apparent motions of the five visible planets, and to discuss the significance of those motions. The text includes tabulated predictions of the motions of three planets from 246 bce to 177 bce. In each case it is possible to reconstruct (...)
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  7. Dao Ji Zhijian: Zhongguo Wenhua Beijing de Jishu Zhexue «道技之间: 中国文化背景的技术哲学»– By Wang Qian.Glen Miller & Qin Zhu - 2011 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (2):317-320.
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  8. The dialogue of civilizations in the birth of modern science (review).Sundar Sarukkai - 2011 - Philosophy East and West 61 (4):736-741.
    When I first encountered Indian philosophy after having studied Western philosophy, two examples of comparative interest caught my attention. One was Saussure's theory of meaning through difference (which led to the vibrant traditions of structuralism, poststructuralism, and postmodernism). I was immediately struck by the stark similarity between this theory and the Buddhist apoha theory of meaning. The other example was that of Hume, and in this case I was amazed at the sophistication of the Indian philosophical discussions on the problem (...)
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  9. The Effect of Confucian Work Ethics on Learning About Science and Technology Knowledge and Morality.Quey-Jen Yeh & Xiaojun Xu - 2010 - Journal of Business Ethics 95 (1):111 - 128.
    While Chinese societies often appear centralized and traditional, presumably impeding technology and innovation, these values may simply reflect the negative-leaning poles of Confucianism. This study proposes a Confucian work ethic dimension that stresses justified tradition. In combination with Western innovative cultures, this Chinese style might facilitate learning about knowledge and morality in an interaction seemingly unique to the Chinese science and technology sector. Specifically, contrary to the Western style that tolerates conflict to achieve harmony, Confucian work ethics -an Eastern way (...)
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  10. Zhongguo jin xian dai ji liang shi gao [A Draft of the History of Modern and Contemporary Metrology in China]. [REVIEW]Xiang Chen - 2009 - Isis 100:389-390.
  11. Explorations in Daoism: Medicine and Alchemy in Literature. [REVIEW]Bridie Minehan - 2009 - Isis 100:153-154.
  12. Bolatu's Pharmacy Theriac in Early Modern China.Carla Nappi - 2009 - Early Science and Medicine 14 (6):737-764.
    In early modern China, natural history and medicine were shifting along with the boundaries of the empire. Naturalists struggled to cope with a pharmacy's worth of new and unfamiliar substances, texts, and terms, as plants, animals, and the drugs made from them travelled into China across land and sea. One crucial aspect of this phenomenon was the early modern exchange between Islamic and Chinese medicine. The history of theriac illustrates the importance of the recipe for the naturalization of foreign objects (...)
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  13. Technological Paradigm in Ancient Taoism.Alessandro Tomasi - 2009 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 13 (3):190-205.
    Heidegger, Winner, and Ellul's critiques of Western technology focus on a notion of efficiency that subordinates to itself all non-instrumental values. An alternative conception of efficiency is proposed based on the Taoist theory of non-action (wu-wei). The ancient Taoist text, The Chuang Tzu, reveals a type of efficiency that is effective, resourceful, and entrepreneurial. It is a form of action which has an intimate rather than alienated relation to technology, and which is sensitive to the ethical and aesthetic values that (...)
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  14. Chinese Logic and the Absence of Theoretical Sciences in Ancient China.Sun Weimin - 2009 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 8 (4):403-423.
    In this essay, I examine the nature of Chinese logic and Chinese sciences in the history of China. I conclude that Chinese logic is essentially analogical, and that the Chinese did not have theoretical sciences. I then connect these together and explain why the Chinese failed to develop theoretical sciences, even though they enjoyed an advanced civilization and great scientific and technological innovations. This is because a deductive system of logic is necessary for the development of theoretical sciences, and analogical (...)
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  15. Chinese Astronomy for the Early Modern European Reader.Florence C. Hsia - 2008 - Early Science and Medicine 13 (5):417-450.
    Around 1716, the French astronomer and academician Joseph-Nicolas Delisle took up a new project: the twinned topics of Chinese chronology and astronomy. Unable to access Chinese sources and not knowing any fellow savants who shared this particular interest, Delisle methodically made extracts and compiled data from the existing European literature. Among Delisle's papers at the Observatoire de Paris still exist the results of this research, including a list of the books he found relevant. This paper develops a close reading of (...)
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  16. Jin dai xi fang shi Hua sheng wu shi [History of Western Botanical and Zoological Studies in China]. [REVIEW]Shang-jen Li - 2008 - Isis 99:380-381.
  17. Selected Materials on the Science and Technology in the People's Republic of China. [REVIEW]Yue Meng - 2008 - Isis 99:872-873.
  18. Zhongguo jin xian dai ke ji jiang li zhi du [Science and Technology Awards in Modern China]. [REVIEW]Anjing Qu - 2008 - Isis 99:444-445.
  19. He cheng yi ge dan bai zhi: Jie jing niu yi dao su de ren gong quan he cheng [Synthesize a protein: The story of total synthesis of crystalline insulin project in China]. [REVIEW]Sigrid Schmalzer - 2008 - Isis 99:231-232.
  20. Xin Zhongguo yu xin ke xue: gao fen zi xue zai xian dai Zhongguo de jian li [New Science for a New China: Institutionalization of Polymer Science in the P. R. China]. [REVIEW]Yuelin Zhu - 2008 - Isis 99:446-447.
  21. New Directions in the History of Modern Science in China.Benjamin A. Elman - 2007 - Isis 98 (3):517-523.
    These essays collectively present new perspectives on the history of modern science in China since 1900. Fa‐ti Fan describes how science under the Republic of China after 1911 exhibited a complex local and international character that straddled both imperialism and colonialism. Danian Hu focuses on the fate of relativity in the physics community in China after 1917. Zuoyue Wang hopes that a less nationalist political atmosphere in China will stimulate more transnational studies of modern science, which will in turn reveal (...)
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  22. Redrawing the Map: Science in Twentieth‐Century China.Fa-ti Fan - 2007 - Isis 98 (3):524-538.
    This essay argues that science in twentieth‐century China is a rich topic that can be productively integrated into research and teaching on the history of modern science. It identifies major issues of science in twentieth‐century China and demonstrates that they can prove useful to any scholar who wishes to consider science in a comparative and trans/international context. The essay suggests two important steps for a fruitful investigation into the topic of science in twentieth‐century China: first, revising the historiographic assumptions and (...)
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  23. A Cultural History Of Modern Science In China. [REVIEW]Danian Hu - 2007 - Isis 98:613-614.
  24. The Reception of Relativity in China.Danian Hu - 2007 - Isis 98:539-557.
    Having introduced the theory of relativity from Japan, the Chinese quickly and enthusiastically embraced it during the May Fourth Movement, virtually without controversy. This unique passion for and openness to relativity, which helped advance the study of theoretical physics in China in the 1930s, was gradually replaced by imported Soviet criticism after 1949. During the Cultural Revolution, radical Chinese ideologues sponsored organized campaigns against Einstein and relativity, inflicting serious damage on Chinese science and scientific education. China’s economic reforms in the (...)
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  25. Philosophy of information and foundation for the future chinese philosophy of science and technology.Gang Liu - 2007 - Frontiers of Philosophy in China 2 (1):95-114.
    The research programme of the philosophy of information (PI) proposed in 2002 made it an independent area or discipline in philosophical research. The scientific concept of ‘information’ is formally accepted in philosophical inquiry. Hence a new and tool-driven philosophical discipline of PI with its interdisciplinary nature has been established. Philosophy of information is an ‘orientative’ rather than ‘cognitive’ philosophy. When PI is under consideration in the history of Western philosophy, it can be regarded as a shift of large tradition. There (...)
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  26. Science and the State in Modern China.Zuoyue Wang - 2007 - Isis 98:558-570.
    The question of the role of the state has, in one way or another, dominated historical studies of science and technology in modern China, a field that has experienced rapid growth since the early 1980s both inside and outside of China. While Western scholars have focused their analysis on the state control of science and scientists, Chinese historians and writers, often working under political restrictions, have largely adopted a descriptive approach with an emphasis on biographical, institutional, and disciplinary histories and (...)
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  27. China and Albert Einstein: The Reception of the Physicist and His Theory in China, 1917–1979. [REVIEW]Tian Cao - 2006 - Isis 97:571-573.
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  28. On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550–1900. [REVIEW]Fa-ti Fan - 2006 - Isis 97:535-538.
  29. Biology and Revolution in Twentieth‐Century China. [REVIEW]Sigrid Schmalzer - 2005 - Isis 96:305-306.
  30. Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technology; Part 13: Mining. [REVIEW]Francesca Bay - 2004 - Isis 95:474-475.
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  31. The birth of modern science: culture, mentalities and scientific innovation.Andrew Brennan - 2004 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 35 (2):199-225.
    In a recent paper, Luc Faucher and others have argued for the existence of deep cultural differences between ‘Chinese’ and ‘East Asian’ ways of understanding the world and those of ‘ancient Greeks’ and ‘Americans’. Rejecting Alison Gopnik’s speculation that the development of modern science was driven by the increasing availability of leisure and information in the late Renaissance, they claim instead—following Richard Nisbett—that the birth of mathematical science was aided by ‘Greek’, or ‘Western’, cultural norms that encouraged analytic, abstract and (...)
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  32. Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape. [REVIEW]Deane Curtin - 2004 - Environmental Ethics 26 (1):105-106.
  33. Responding to Heaven and Earth: Daoism, Heidegger, and Ecology.Eric Sean Nelson - 2004 - Environmental Philosophy 1 (2):65-74.
    Although the words “nature” and “ecology” have to be qualified in discussing either Daoism or Heidegger, the author argues that a different and potentially helpful approach to questions of nature, ecology, and environmental ethics can be articulated from the works of Martin Heidegger and the early Daoist philosophers Laozi (Lao-Tzu) and Zhuangzi (Chuang-Tzu). Despite very different cultural contexts and philosophical strategies, they bring into play the spontaneity and event-character of nature while unfolding a sense of how to be responsive to (...)
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  34. John Dewey and Confucius: Ecological Philosophers.Joseph Grange - 2003 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 30 (3-4):419-431.
  35. Scientism, technocracy, and morality in china.Guangwei Ouyang - 2003 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 30 (2):177–193.
  36. Continuum logic: A chinese contribution to knowledge and understanding in philosophy and science.Walter Benesch & Eduardo Wilner - 2002 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 29 (4):471–494.
  37. Preface: Science, technology, and chinese philosophy.Chung-Ying Cheng - 2002 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 29 (4):469–470.
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  38. A buddhist scheme for engaging modern science: The case of taixu.Tao Jiang - 2002 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 29 (4):533–552.
  39. Ritual and realism in early chinese science.May Sim - 2002 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 29 (4):495–517.
  40. Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China: The Politics of Knowledge by H. Lyman Miller. [REVIEW]Cong Cao - 2000 - Isis 91:201-201.
  41. Letters to the Editor.Joseph Chen & Christopher Cullen - 2000 - Isis 91:305-309.
  42. The Changing Dynamic between Science and Politics: Evolution of the Highest Academic Honor in China, 1949-1998.Cong Cao - 1999 - Isis 90:298-324.
  43. Early Chinese Work in Natural Science: A Re-Examination of the Physics of Motion, Acoustics, Astronomy, and Scientific Thoughts by Chen Cheng-Yih. [REVIEW]Christopher Cullen - 1998 - Isis 89:535-536.
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  44. The Translation of Modern Western Science in Nineteenth-Century China, 1840-1895.David Wright - 1998 - Isis 89:653-673.
  45. Hua Hengfang: Forerunner and Disseminator of Modern Science in China.Y. Wang - 1996 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 179:369-394.
  46. China's Science and Technology Policy: 1949-1989 by Wang Yeu-Farn. [REVIEW]James Reardon-Anderson - 1994 - Isis 85:549-550.
  47. Chinese Thought, Society, and Science: The Intellectual and Social Background of Science and Technology in Premodern China by Derk Bodde. [REVIEW]Marta Hanson - 1993 - Isis 84:142-143.
  48. History of Science and Technology in the Song, Liao, Xia, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties by Guan Chengxue. [REVIEW]Patricia Konings - 1993 - Isis 84:141-142.
  49. Science and Technology in Chinese Civilization by Cheng-Yih Chen; Roger Cliff; Kuei-Mei Chen. [REVIEW]John Major - 1990 - Isis 81:315-316.
  50. Fifth International Conference on the History of Science in China.Nathan Sivin - 1989 - Isis 80:80-81.
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