In 1962, famous American historian and philosopher of science Thomas S. Kuhn published a book titled The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. This work led to a surge of"Kuhn's study fervor" in China, very much the same way it did in the West. During the 1960s and 1970s, Structure had already become a controversial and influential topic in Western studies. By contrast, in mainland China it was just beginning to receive attention, due to the special political and academic circumstances of the time. Nevertheless, Chinese scholars were quick to take note of this work's sig. nificance in the fields of philosophy and history of science. This resulted in the Chinese-language publication of the translated works of many important chapters from Structure, in addition to a number of reviews of it by European scholars (Bohm [1964] 1965; Mikulinski and Markova [1975] 1978; Schaefer [1977] 1979).
