The people's Peking man
popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China
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Publication
2008 - The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
86,500 words, Guess
Page Count
346 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL16833960M
- ISBN-139780226738598
- ISBN-100226738590
- OCLC Control Number181910118
- Internet Archivebwb_P8-CZL-079
and 2 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2007046296
- LibraryThing6622340
Classifications
- DDC569.90951
- LCCGN284.7 .S36 2008
- LCCGN284.7 .S36 2008eb
and 1 more
- LCCGN284.7.S36 2008
Description
After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking man became a prominent figure in the Chinese movement to bring science to the people. In a new state with twin goals of crushing superstition and establishing a socialist society, the story of human evolution was the first lesson in Marxist philosophy delivered to the masses.
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