China and Albert Einstein. The reception of the physicist and his history in China 1917-1979.

Danian Hu.

ISBN 10: 067401538X / ISBN 13: 9780674015388

Published by Cambridge und London, Harvard University Press, 2005., 2005

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Quart, Org.-Hardcover mit illustr. Org-SU, xiv, 257 (+ 1) S., wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. ISBN 067401538X. - ENGLISH: Quart, publisher's hardcover with publisher's D/J, xiv, 257 (+ 1) pp., a well preserved copy. ISBN 067401538X. - ENGLISH: Quart, publisher's hardcover with publisher's D/J, xiv, 257 (+ 1) pp., a well preserved copy. 501 g.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: China and Albert Einstein. The reception of the physicist and his history in China 1917-1979.
• Publisher: Cambridge und London, Harvard University Press, 2005.
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067401538X
• ISBN 13: 9780674015388
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 501 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • ASIEN, AUSTRALIEN, PAZIFIK - Asia, Australia, P...

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Synopsis

China and Albert Einstein is the first extensive study in English or Chinese of China’s reception of the celebrated physicist and his theory of relativity. Tracing the influence of Jesuit missionaries in the seventeenth century and Western missionaries and educators in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as they introduced key concepts of Western physical science and paved the way for Einstein’s radical new ideas, Danian Hu shows us that Chinese receptivity was fostered by the trickle of Chinese students sent abroad for study beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and by the openness of the May Fourth Movement (1916–1923).

In a series of biographical studies of Chinese physicists, Hu describes the Chinese assimilation of relativity and explains how Chinese physicists offered arguments and theories of their own. Hu’s account concludes with the troubling story of the fate of foreign ideas such as Einstein’s in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), when the theory of relativity was denigrated along with Einstein’s ideas on democracy and world peace.

China and Albert Einstein is an important contribution to Einstein studies and a landmark work in the history of Chinese science.

About the Author

Danian Hu is an Assistant Professor in the History Department and the Asian Studies Program at the City College of New York.