Call for Papers for Edited Book on Chinese Science History

04 August 2010
Call for Papers for Edited Book on Chinese Science History
Deadline: 15 September 2010 (proposals)
Geographical coverage: China/elsewhere
Reading Fee: none
Accepts (genre): papers
Prize/Payment: publication
Contact: dbrock1@fordham.edu

The editors would like to invite China specialists to contribute essays for an edited book on Science and Technology (S&T) of the Chinese Cultural Revolution era. Under contract by a leading publisher and entitled Mr. Science and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution, this volume intends to tie the two great Chinese students movements of the twentieth century. That is, contributors should explore potential links of the May Fourth Movement’s “Mr. Science” antecedents with Chairman Mao’s vision for S&T, particularly his hopes for the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution.

The Deng era assessment of Mao’s initiative is one of economic, political and institutional failure on a massive scale. These conclusions of Deng modernity are self-evident—or are they? This book will also ask whether or not the mass line served science and the people, and whether elements of China’s rise as a powerful scientifically-based industrial state can be traced to the Cultural Revolution.

This book is intended to provide scholars, political scientists, policymakers, economists, science historians, Sinologists and students with a comprehensive assessment of S&T related to political economy, industrial and agricultural development, rural education and governmental policy, both domestic and international.

Several contributors have been enlisted to the project, some of whom have already submitted essays; nevertheless, the editors will consider additional essays in these areas to encourage multiple viewpoints. They include: rural agriculture, aeronautics, mathematics, industrial innovation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the role of foreign-trained scientists.

The editors are particularly seeking essays in these unassigned areas: physics, meteorology, earthquake detection, missile development, nuclear weapons, public health, geology, archeology, the petroleum industry, oceanography, and other relevant areas.

Interested contributors should please submit a CV (or brief bio, as desired) and short abstract of their concept (200-300 words) to chunjuaw@bridgeport.edu or dbrock1@fordham.edu by August 20, if possible. You will receive notification of acceptance within two weeks of receipt, if your proposal meets the theme of the book concept.

Proposals accepted for publication will require submission of a completed 6,000-10,000 word essay by September 15, 2010. Papers must be original and should not be previously published; however, if your previous publication fits this book concept extremely well, the editors may elect to propose to the publisher its reprint.. Do not hesitate to contact the editors for further information.

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