Can Science and Technology Save China?

Edited by Susan Greenhalgh and Li Zhang

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Can Science and Technology Save China? assesses the intimate connections between science and society in China, offering an in-depth look at how an array of sciences and technologies are being made, how they are interfacing with society, and with what effects.Focusing on critical domains of daily life, the chapters explore how scientists, technicians, surgeons, therapists, and other experts create practical knowledges and innovations, as well as how ordinary people take them up as they pursue the good life. Editors Greenhalgh and Zhang offer a rare, up-close view of the politics of Chinese science-making, showing how everyday logics, practices, and ethics of science, medicine, and technology are profoundly reshaping contemporary China. By foregrounding the notion of "governing through science," and the contested role of science and technology as instruments of change, this timely book addresses important questions regarding what counts as science in China, what science and technology can do to transform China, as well as their limits and unintended consequences.

Sujets

• Histoire
• History of Asia
• Central
• China

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 février 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501747045
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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CAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SAVE CHINA?

CAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SAVE CHINA? EdiTed BY SusaN GreeNHalgH aNd Li ZHaNg

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON

Copyright © 2020 by Cornell University

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First published 2020 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Greenhalgh, Susan, editor. | Zhang, Li, 1965 Mayeditor. Title: Can science and technology save China? / edited by Susan Greenhalgh and Li Zhang. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019017310 (print) | LCCN 2019018070 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501747045 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501747052 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501747021 | ISBN 9781501747021 (cloth) | ISBN 9781501747038 (pbk.) Subjects: LCSH: Science—Social aspects—China. | Technology—Social Aspects—China. | Science and state—China. | Technology and state—China. Classification: LCC Q175.52.C6 (ebook) | LCC Q175.52.C6 C35 2020 (print) | DDC 338.951/06—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019017310

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Contents

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Introduction: Governing through Science: The Anthropology of Science and Technology in Contemporary China Susan Greenhalgh 1 1.  Numbers and the Assembling of a Community Mental Health Infrastructure in Postsocialist China Zhiying Ma 25 2.  Embracing Psychological Science for the “Good Life”? Li Zhang 50 3.  Negotiating Evidence and Efficacy in Experimental Medicine Priscilla Song 69 4.  Divergent Trust and Dissonant Truths in Public Health Science Katherine A. Mason 95 5.  China’s EcoDream and the Making of Invisibilities in RuralEnvironmental Research Elizabeth Lord 115 6.  The Good Scientist and the Good Multinational: Managing the Ethics of IndustryFunded Health Science Susan Greenhalgh 139 7.  The Black Soldier Fly: An Indigenous Innovation for Waste Management in Guangzhou Amy Zhang 163 8.  Unmasking a Gendered Materialism: Air Filtration, Cigarettes, and Domestic Discord in Urban China Matthew Kohrman 184

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List of Contributors Index

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Acknowledgments

This book would not have been possible without the support of numerous insti tutions and individuals. The project emerged from a workshop in China anthro pology titled “A Better Life through Science and Biomedicine?” held at Harvard University on April 15 and 16, 2016. Big thanks go to Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for hosting the workshop, and to Mark Grady, the center’s events coordinator, for the organizational skill, unflagging energy, and good hu mor he devoted to making sure everything unfolded smoothly. Several organ izations on campus contributed generously to funding the event. They include the Fairbank Center, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Department of Anthropology. At the workshop, two discussants—Joe Dumit, Professor of Anthropology and thenDirector of Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis, and WenHua Kuo, Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences at National YangMing University (Taipei) and editor of the noted journalEast Asian Science, Technology, and Society: An International Journal—provided thoughtprovoking commentaries. In addition to those whose chapters appear here, Marty (Lindsey) Alexander, Nancy N. Chen, and Anna LoraWainwright presented papers at the workshop. The comments and ideas they shared at that event are reflected in the essays published here. Warm thanks go to Shuang Lu Frost and Shanni Zhao, advanced graduate students in anthropology at Harvard, for their able assistance with and participation in the workshop. All the contributors to this book are grateful to two anonymous reviewers for the press for their exceptionally smart and professionally generous comments on the book as a whole and each of the individual chapters. Special thanks are due Jim Lance, our editor at Cornell University Press, whose sharp editorial eye and finely honed negotiation skills ensured that this book was externally reviewed and formally accepted in admirably short order. Karen Laun, our production editor at the press, and Kristen Bettcher, project editor at Westchester Publishing Ser vices, successfully guided the book through the production process with remark able speed and efficiency. To all these individuals and institutions we owe big debts of gratitude. —The editors

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CAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SAVE CHINA?