The Making of the Human Sciences in China

Historical and Conceptual Foundations
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39761-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 548 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1008 g

Reihe: China Studies

This volume provides a history of how “the human” has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present. Organized around four themes—“Parameters of Human Life,” “Formations of the Human Subject,” “Disciplining Knowledge,” and “Deciphering Health”—it scrutinizes the development of scientific knowledge and technical interest in human organization within an evolving Chinese society. Spanning the Ming-Qing, Republican, and contemporary periods, its twenty-four original, synthetic chapters ground the mutual construction of “China” and “the human” in concrete historical contexts. As a state-of-the-field survey, a definitive textbook for teaching, and an authoritative reference that guides future research, this book pushes Sinology, comparative cultural studies, and the history of science in new directions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chiang, Howard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: A New Order of Things: Scientific Visions of the Human in China

Howard Chiang

Part 1: Parameters of Human Life

1 Technology

Francesca Bray

2 Cartography

Alexander Akin

3 Ethnography

Laura Hostetler

4 Historiography

Matthew W. Mosca and Howard Chiang

5 Reproduction

Yi-Li Wu

6 Ghostly Encounters

Hsiu-fen Chen

Part 2: Formations of the Modern Subject

7 Race

Frank Dikötter

8 Ethnicity

Bin Yang

9 Citizenship

Joshua Hill

10 Class

Stephen A. Smith

11 Sexuality

Howard Chiang

12 Gender

Tani Barlow

Part 3: Disciplining Knowledge

13 Economics

Joyman Lee

14 Psychology

Zhipeng Gao

15 Statistics

Andrea Bréard

16 Sociology

Yung-chen Chiang

17 Anthropology

Hsiao-pei Yen

18 Political Science

John Feng

Part 4: Deciphering Health

19 Anatomy

David Luesink

20 Forensic Medicine

Daniel Asen

21 Physical Hygiene

Ruth Rogaski

22 Mental Health

Wen-Ji Wang and Hsuan-Ying Huang

23 Psychiatry

Harry Yi-Jui Wu

24 Psychoanalysis

Jingyuan Zhang

Über Autor(innen)

Howard Chiang, Ph.D. (2012), Princeton University, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (Columbia, 2018) and editor of Sexuality in China: Histories of Power and Pleasure (Washington, 2018).