Three years after Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was first published in 1962, Chinese readers became aware of this book via a book review. After the academic silence caused by the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), the first complete Chinese translation of Structure was published in Shanghai in 1980. Since being introduced to the mainland, Kuhn's work has had a significant and lasting influence on the philosophy and history of science, and on the humanities and social sciences as well.
