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The Making of the Human Sciences in China
Historical and Conceptual Foundations
Series: - China Studies, Volume: 40
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This volume provides a history of how âthe humanâ has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present. Organized around four themesââParameters of Human Life,â âFormations of the Human Subject,â âDisciplining Knowledge,â and âDeciphering Healthââit 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 âChinaâ and âthe humanâ 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.
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).
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: A New Order of Things: Scientific Visions of the Human in China
âHoward Chiang
1 Technology
âFrancesca Bray
2 Cartography
âAlexander Akin
3 Ethnography
âLaura Hostetler
4 Historiography
âMatthew W. Mosca and Howard Chiang
5 Reproduction
âYi-Li Wu
6 Ghostly Encounters
âHsiu-fen Chen
7 Race
âFrank Dikötter
8 Ethnicity
âBin Yang
9 Citizenship
âJoshua Hill
10 Class
âStephen A. Smith
11 Sexuality
âHoward Chiang
12 Gender
âTani Barlow
13 Economics
âJoyman Lee
14 Psychology
âZhipeng Gao
15 Statistics
âAndrea Bréard
16 Sociology
âYung-chen Chiang
17 Anthropology
âHsiao-pei Yen
18 Political Science
âJohn Feng
19 Anatomy
âDavid Luesink
20 Forensic Medicine
âDaniel Asen
21 Physical Hygiene
âRuth Rogaski
22 Mental Health
âWen-Ji Wang and Hsuan-Ying Huang
23 Psychiatry
âHarry Yi-Jui Wu
24 Psychoanalysis
âJingyuan Zhang
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: A New Order of Things: Scientific Visions of the Human in China
âHoward Chiang
Part 1: Parameters of Human Life
1 Technology
âFrancesca Bray
2 Cartography
âAlexander Akin
3 Ethnography
âLaura Hostetler
4 Historiography
âMatthew W. Mosca and Howard Chiang
5 Reproduction
âYi-Li Wu
6 Ghostly Encounters
âHsiu-fen Chen
Part 2: Formations of the Modern Subject
7 Race
âFrank Dikötter
8 Ethnicity
âBin Yang
9 Citizenship
âJoshua Hill
10 Class
âStephen A. Smith
11 Sexuality
âHoward Chiang
12 Gender
âTani Barlow
Part 3: Disciplining Knowledge
13 Economics
âJoyman Lee
14 Psychology
âZhipeng Gao
15 Statistics
âAndrea Bréard
16 Sociology
âYung-chen Chiang
17 Anthropology
âHsiao-pei Yen
18 Political Science
âJohn Feng
Part 4: Deciphering Health
19 Anatomy
âDavid Luesink
20 Forensic Medicine
âDaniel Asen
21 Physical Hygiene
âRuth Rogaski
22 Mental Health
âWen-Ji Wang and Hsuan-Ying Huang
23 Psychiatry
âHarry Yi-Jui Wu
24 Psychoanalysis
âJingyuan Zhang
All interested in the history of science and medicine, Chinese intellectual and cultural history, and anyone concerned with the comparative studies of human subjectivity and the social management of science and cultural difference.