The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range from botanists to ethnographers to missionaries. Although a diverse lot, all believed in objective, progressive, and universally valid science; a close association between scientific and humanistic knowledge; a lack of conflict between science and faith; and the union of the natural world and the world of ‘nature people.’ Explorers and Scientists in China’s Borderlands examines their cultural and personal assumptions while emphasizing their remarkable lives, and considers their contributions to a body of knowledge that has important contemporary significance.
Essays are devoted to D. C. Graham, Joseph Rock, Reginald Farrer and George Forrest, Ernest Henry Wilson, Paul Vial, Johan Gunnar Andersson and Ding Wenjiang, and Friedrich Weiss and Hedwig Weiss-Sonnenburg. Richly illustrated with historic photographs, this collection reveals the extraordinary lives and times of these remarkable people.
Table of Content
Preface, Denise M. Glover
Introduction, Stevan Harrell
1. The Eyes of Others, Erik Mueggler
2. At Home in Two Worlds, Denise M. Glover
3. Searching for the ‘Lolos’, Tamara Wyss
4. Classifying Joseph Rock, Alvin Yoshinaga et al.
5. Franc-Catholic Modernizer Paul Vial, Margaret B. Swain
6. David Crockett Graham, Charles F. Mc Khann and Alan Waxman
7. David Crocket Graham in Chinese Intellectual History, Jeff Kyong-Mc Clain and Geng Jing
8. Science across Borders, Johan Gunnar Andersson and Ding Wenjiang
Gazetteer
References
Contributions
Index
About the author
Stevan Harrell is professor emeritus of anthropology and environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington. He is the author of Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China (University of Washington Press, 2001) and An Ecological History of Modern China (University of Washington Press, 2023); and editor of the University of Washington Press book series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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