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Would Mr. Science Eat the Chinese Diet?

Although science has been central to the history and historiography of the May Fourth Movement, our understanding of how

Would Mr. Science Eat the Chinese Diet?

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A Tradition of Invention: The Paradox of Glorifying Past Technological Breakthroughs

This article examines how the notion of a tradition of invention, which took shape in China in the nineteenth century,

A Tradition of Invention: The Paradox of Glorifying Past Technological Breakthroughs

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Practicing Mr. Science: Chinese Scientists and the May Fourth Movement from Zhu Kezhen to Fang Lizhi

As many historians who have studied the May Fourth have recognized, science was an important part of both the May Fourth

Practicing Mr. Science: Chinese Scientists and the May Fourth Movement from Zhu Kezhen to Fang Lizhi

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The Global Comrades of Mr. Democracy and Mr. Science: Placing May Fourth in a Transnational History of Science Activism

The May Fourth movement is widely recognized as a watershed within Chinese cultural and political history, but it was...

The Global Comrades of Mr. Democracy and Mr. Science: Placing May Fourth in a Transnational History of Science Activism

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“Mr. Science”, May Fourth, and the Global History of Science

This paper argues that Mr. Science and the May 4th Movement was a significant chapter in the global history of science.

“Mr. Science”, May Fourth, and the Global History of Science

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Emerging Potentials: Times and Climes of the Belt and Road Initiative in Cambodia and Beyond

Drawing on STS, anthropological, and geographical studies of infrastructure and extended forms of media theory...

Emerging Potentials: Times and Climes of the Belt and Road Initiative in Cambodia and Beyond

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Correcting Life through the Marketplace? Genome Editing and the Commercialization of Academic Research in South Korea

This article follows the scientific and entrepreneurial career of one of the most prominent genetic engineers...

Correcting Life through the Marketplace? Genome Editing and the Commercialization of Academic Research in South Korea

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Vernacular Technical Practices Beyond the Imitative/Innovative Boundary: Apple II Cloning in Early-1980s South Korea

This article seeks to reinstate the significance of microcomputer cloning in the history of computing, seeing it as...

Vernacular Technical Practices Beyond the Imitative/Innovative Boundary: Apple II Cloning in Early-1980s South Korea

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A History of Japanese Follow-up Surveys of Children Conceived through Artificial Insemination by Donor: The Evidence of “Superior” Children and Positive Eugenics

Artificial insemination by donor (AID) began in 1948 in Japan at Keio University. Due to criticism of this procedure

A History of Japanese Follow-up Surveys of Children Conceived through Artificial Insemination by Donor: The Evidence of “Superior” Children and Positive Eugenics

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Some Elements of the Regime of Management of Irrelevance in Science. Alguns elementos do regime de gestão da irrelevância na ciência. Algunos elementos del régimen de gestión de la irrelevancia en la ciencia.

In contexts of scientific production deemed peripheral, knowledge produced is depicted in a condition of inferiority

Some Elements of the Regime of Management of Irrelevance in Science. Alguns elementos do regime de gestão da irrelevância na ciência. Algunos elementos del régimen de gestión de la irrelevancia en la ciencia.