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The selections have not only been chosen with a keen eye for excellence, but are preceded by very helpful introductory essays. It should prove an invaluable guide for students and scholars alike.
Tinnevelt, Radboud University Nijmegen. The volume provides a much more detailed and historically accurate picture of political thought in this period than one encounters in many other synoptic volumes. Overall the editors are to be congratulated for having put together this volume in such a scholarly and thoughtful manner, and for having provided full and helpful introductions for a student readership.
It should be of great utility for courses in political thought. The Twentieth Century and Beyond.
September 12, ISBN: Courses that utilize this volume will have abundant resources from which to familiarize students with the complexity and diversity of political thought from the past hundred plus years. The selections have not only been chosen with a keen eye for excellence, but are preceded by very helpful introductory essays.
It should prove an invaluable guide for students and scholars alike. Tinnevelt, Radboud University Nijmegen. The volume provides a much more detailed and historically accurate picture of political thought in this period than one encounters in many other synoptic volumes. Overall the editors are to be congratulated for having put together this volume in such a scholarly and thoughtful manner, and for having provided full and helpful introductions for a student readership.
It should be of great utility for courses in political thought.
The Twentieth Century and Beyond. Science and Civilisation in China is highly regarded among scholars because of its extensive comparative coverage of Chinese innovations. Editor of Volume 6, Nathan Sivin and Needham's research collaborator Lu Gwei-djen include updated research to support some of Needham's claims.
However, Sivin is critical of Needham suggesting more research is required citing his assumptions of Taoisms' role in promoting scientific feats in China. Needham's Science and Civilisation in China did not receive criticism from scholars in other fields of study.
Jonathan Spence wrote in a New York Times article "this work is the most ambitious undertaking in Chinese studies during this century". Needham's encyclopedia and compare him to Charles Darwin in terms of importance regarding scientific knowledge.
Wang Ling and Lu Gwei-djen collaborators. Bringing the diverse contributions of feminism and other liberation struggles to the forefront, it offers a new approach to the teaching and study of social and political theory. Science and Civilisation in China —[] is a series of books initiated and edited by British biochemist , historian and sinologist Joseph Needham, Ph. Journal of World History. Views Read Edit View history. The volume provides a much more detailed and historically accurate picture of political thought in this period than one encounters in many other synoptic volumes. A detailed introduction to each section and each author provides a rich historical background to theories and theorists.
Arun Bala, the author of The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science , Needham postulates that scientific knowledge may evolve to more closely resemble Chinese philosophical views of nature; signifying his belief in Chinese inherent wisdom. After his extensive research of Chinese innovations, Joseph Needham became concerned with the question: Why did modern science stop developing in China after the 16th century? After several volumes of Science and Civilisation in China had been published, Needham was questioned about his theory of the origin of science in the West. Needham's attempt to uncover the reasoning behind China's rise and fall as an elite scientific and technologically advanced nation has been expounded upon and debated for decades including Justin Yifu Lin 's University of Chicago journal article "The Needham Puzzle".
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