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| Author | : Sigrid Schmalzer |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2009-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0226738612 |
In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man became a prominent figure in the 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 offered to the masses. At the same time, even Mao’s populist commitment to mass participation in science failed to account for the power of popular culture—represented most strikingly in legends about the Bigfoot-like Wild Man—to reshape ideas about human nature. The People’s Peking Man is a skilled social history of twentieth-century Chinese paleoanthropology and a compelling cultural—and at times comparative—history of assumptions and debates about what it means to be human. By focusing on issues that push against the boundaries of science and politics, The People’s Peking Man offers an innovative approach to modern Chinese history and the history of science.
| Author | : Claire Taschdjian |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781934609132 |
In the 1920s, on a hill near Peking (now Beijing), a team of scientists discovered a huge cache of human bones, some more than half a million years old. Collectively dubbed ?Peking Man,? they were one of the most important finds in the history of paleontology. And in 1941, in the chaos of World War II they disappeared. No one knows what happened, but there are plenty of theories, many with political implications. Claire Taschdjian's speculation as to what might have become of the priceless fossils could represent just another theory, but for one intriguing fact: Claire Taschdjian was one of the last people in the world known to have seen Peking Man. (With newly-commissioned material on the true story of the Peking Man.)
| Author | : Amir Aczel |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2008-11-04 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9781594483356 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of Fermat?s Last Theorem, ?an extraordinary story?( Philadelphia Inquirer) of discovery, evolution, science, and faith. In 1929, French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a part of a group of scientists that uncovered a skull that became known as Peking Man, a key evolutionary link that left Teilhard torn between science and his ancient faith, and would leave him ostracized by his beloved Catholic Church. His struggle is at the heart of The Jesuit and the Skull, which takes readers across continents and cultures in a fascinating exploration of one of the twentieth century?s most important discoveries, and one of the world?s most provocative pieces of evidence in the roiling debate between creationism and evolution.
| Author | : Richard Baum |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2011-03-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0295800216 |
This audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, reflects on forty years of learning about and interacting with the People’s Republic of China, from the height of Maoism during the author’s UC Berkeley student days in the volatile 1960s through globalization. Anecdotes from Baum’s professional life illustrate the alternately peculiar, frustrating, fascinating, and risky activity of China watching — the process by which outsiders gather and decipher official and unofficial information to figure out what’s really going on behind China’s veil of political secrecy and propaganda. Baum writes entertainingly, telling his narrative with witty stories about people, places, and eras. China Watcher will appeal to scholars and followers of international events who lived through the era of profound political and academic change described in the book, as well as to younger, post-Mao generations, who will enjoy its descriptions of the personalities and political forces that shaped the modern field of China studies.
| Author | : Christopher George Janus |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : |
An account of the search for the onehalf-million-year-old fossil remains of Peking Man, which were discovered in China in 1926 and lost in 1941 when the Japanese invaded China.
| Author | : Henning Mankell |
| Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2010-02-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307593177 |
From the dean of Scandinavian noir, Henning Mankell, the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, an incredible stand-alone masterpiece: a bone-chilling mystery that spans two centuries and four continents. In the far north of Sweden a small, quiet village has been almost entirely wiped out by a mass murderer. The only clue left at the scene is a red ribbon. Among the victims are the grandparents of Judge Birgitta Roslin, who sets out to find the killer. Despite being brushed off by the police, Birgitta is determined to prove that the murders were not a random act of violence but are part of something far more dark and complex. Her investigation leads to the highest echelons of power and into the recesses of history where the seeds of evil deeds were planted.
| Author | : Fang Lizhi |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2016-02-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1627794999 |
"A long-awaited memoir by the celebrated physicist whose clashes with the Chinese regime helped inspired the Tiananmen Square protests describes how in spite of his scientific contributions he was sentenced to hard labor for decades and eventually sought asylum from the U.S., "--NoveList.
| Author | : Jasper Becker |
| Publisher | : eBook Partnership |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 2015-08-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1783017856 |
A startling, eye-opening account of a fascinating and decisive moment in Chinese history, packed with evocative stories. Jasper Becker tells the story of why and how China's leaders set about to destroy and rebuild one of the world's greatest cities and how many of the residents tried to stop it and protect their great architectural legacy.
| Author | : David Kidd |
| Publisher | : Eland Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
A haunting and delicately observed description of the last days of Mandarin culture before the revolution, 'Peking Story' is a testimony to a way of life, a culture, an aesthetic and a civilisation which has since completely disappeared.
| Author | : Yu Cao |
| Publisher | : New York : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Chinese drama |
| ISBN | : 9780231056564 |
