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The people's Peking man : popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China / Sigrid Schmalzer.
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Title:The people's Peking man : popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China / Sigrid Schmalzer.
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Author/Creator:Schmalzer, Sigrid.
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Published/Created:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Call Number: GN284.7 .S36 2008
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: GN284.7 .S36 2008
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Peking man.
Paleoanthropology--China.
Communism and science--China.
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Description:xix, 346 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-326) and index.
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ISBN:9780226738604 (paper)
0226738604 (paper)
9780226738598 (cloth)
0226738590 (cloth)
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Contents:1. "From 'Dragon Bones' to Scientific Research": Peking Man and Popular Paleoanthropology in Pre-1949 China
2. "A United Front against Superstition": Science Dissemination, 1940-1971
3. "The Content of Human": In Search of Human Identity, 1940-1971
4. "Labor Created Science": The Class Politics of Scientific Knowledge, 1940-1971
5. "Presumptuous Guests Usurp the Hosts": Dissemination and Participation, 1971-1978
6. "Springtime for Science," but What a Garden: Mystery, Superstition, and Fanatics in the Post-Mao Era
7. "From Legend to Science," and Back Again? Bigfoot, Science, and the People in Post-Mao China
8. "Have We Dug at Our Ancestral Shrine?" Post-Mao Ethnic Nationalism and Its Limits.