Dr Joseph Needham's account of the Chinese achievement in science and technology will stand as one of the great works of our time. It has been acclaimed by specialists in both East and West and also by readers with wider and more general interests. The text, based on research of a high critical quality, is supported by many hundreds of illustrations and is imbued with a warm ap...(展开全部)

The second volume of Dr Joseph Needham's great work Science and Civilisation in China is devoted to the history of scientific thought. Beginning with ancient times, it describes the Confucian milieu in which arose the organic naturalism of the great Taoist school, the scientific philosophy of the Mohists and Logicians, and the quantitative materialism of the Legalists. Thus we ...(展开全部)

https://www.routledge.com/Keywords-in-Western-Literary-Criticism-and-Contemporary-China-Volume-1/Hu/p/book/9781138329553 Since the reform and opening up of China in 1978, Western literary criticism has begun to flourish and gain in popularity within the country’s academic literature community. These two volumes meticulously select and examine nine of the most influential keywor...(展开全部)

The world’s preeminent authority on Chinese science explores the philosophy, social structure, arts, crafts, and even military strategies that form our understanding of Chinese science, making instructive comparisons along the way to similar elements of Indian, Hellenistic, and Arabic cultures. A major portion of the book concentrates on Taoist alchemy that led not only to the ...(展开全部)

Why do the Chinese, who are mostly lactase non-persistent, suddenly thirst for milk today? Whether it is formula milk, fresh cow milk, or tea with condensed milk, the rocketing milk consumption and production in China are of increasing global food safety, health, and environmental concerns. Milk Craze examines and compares developments in China's dairy industry and dietary dair...(展开全部)

《表征与干预:自然科学哲学主题导论》的内容分“表征”和“干预”两个部分。“表征”部分探讨了科学实在论问题，分析了库恩、费耶阿本德、拉卡托斯、普特南、范·弗拉森等人的观点，“干预’部分财首次对实验科学进行了深入研究，表明实验具有独立干理论的生命，从而给出了实在论之争的新方向。作者论证，如果我们能够利用理论概念通过实验成功地干预世界，那么这些理论概念就是实在的。他的实体实在论或实验实在论已成为科学实在论的要要流派之一。 《表征与干预:自然科学哲学主题导论》视角独辟蹊径，风格清晰生动，内容深入浅出，堪称科学哲学界的又地范式转移之作。《表征与干预:自然科学哲学主题导论》适合理工科师生以及科技哲学、科技史和科学社会学等领域的研究者参阅。

This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific objectivity and the reality of scientific entities. The views of Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos, Putnam, van Fraassen, and others, are...(展开全部)

This volume outlines the origins of a wide range of disciplines including astronomy, agricultural science, medicine, physics, chemistry, and natural history. It provides an overview of China’s history of science and technology, which can be traced back to the pre-Qin times when the arts had free expression and the schools of thought were unrestricted. It also includes a glossar...(展开全部)

China's one-child rule is unassailably one of the most controversial social policies of all time. In the first book of its kind, Susan Greenhalgh draws on twenty years of research into China's population politics to explain how the leaders of a nation of one billion decided to limit all couples to one child. Focusing on the historic period 1978-80, when China was just reenterin...(展开全部)

Susan Greenhalgh is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She is the coauthor of Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics and the author of Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain (UC Press).