"This book examines as interrelated processes the reception of foreign systems of thought, the construction of modern academic and professional disciplines, and the emergence of new social identities in twentieth-century China after the fall of the imperial state and with the rise of political parties and mass nationalism"-- Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Knowledge systems, knowledge producers, and China's distinctive modernity / Robert Culp and Eddy U -- Part I. New systems of academic learning -- Coming to terms with global competition : the rise of historical geography in early twentieth-century China / Tze-ki Hon -- Drawing boundaries in sand : anthropology in republican China / Clayton Brown -- Part II. Technical knowledge and the professions -- From literati to legal professionals : the first generation of Chinese law school graduates and their career patterns / Huei-min Sun -- The Chinese judge : from Literatus to cadre, 1906-1949 / Glenn Tiffert -- The making of the civil engineer in China : knowledge transfer, institution building, and the rise of a profession / Elisabeth Køll -- Part III. Media and the market -- Economics with Chinese characteristics : the production of economic knowledge in early republican China / Bryna Goodman -- Mass production of knowledge and the industrialization of mental labor : the rise of the petty intellectual / Robert Culp -- Journalism as a field of knowledge in republican China : ideas, institutions, and politics / Timothy Weston -- Part IV. Party control and construction -- Looking toward the future : state standardization and professionalization of science in wartime China / J. Megan Greene -- Making Maoism : ideology and organizations in the Yan'an rectification movement, 1942-44 / Timothy Cheek -- The formation of intellectuals in Yan'an / Eddy U
