Mr. Science and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Despite the verdict of the Cultural Revolution as a disaster for China, a number of scholars have called for reexamining socialist science under Mao's aegis. This collection examines the viewpoints on social and scientific enterprises of that era, probing medicine, the space program and the one-child policy as outcomes of earlier Maoist science.

Despite the verdict of the Cultural Revolution as a disaster for China, a number of scholars have called for reexamining socialist science under Mao’s aegis. This collection examines the viewpoints on social and scientific enterprises of that era, probing medicine, the space program and the one-child policy as outcomes of earlier Maoist science.

Foreword by Joseph W. DaubenAcknowledgmentsPART I. INTRODUCTIONChapter 1. Introduction: Reassessing the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, by Darryl E. Brock and Chunjuan Nancy WeiChapter 2. The People's Landscape: Mr. Science and the Mass Line, by Darryl E. BrockPART II. SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTIONChapter 3. Science Imperiled: Intellectuals and the Cultural Revolution, by Cong CaoChapter 4. Screening the Maoist Mr. Science: Breaking with Old Ideas and Constructing the Post-Capitalist University, by Michael A. MikitaPART III. SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTIONChapter 5. Dialectics of Numbers: Marxism, Maoism, and the Calculus of Infinitesimals, by Yibao XuChapter 6. Ideology and Cosmology: Maoist Discussion on Physics and the Cultural Revolution, by Yinghong ChengChapter 7. Space for the People: China's Aerospace Industry and the Cultural Revolution, by Stacey SolomoneChapter 8. Barefoot Doctors: The Legacy of Chairman Mao's Healthcare, by Chunjuan Nancy WeiChapter 9. Rural Agriculture: Scientific and Technological Development during the Cultural Revolution, by Dongping HanPART IV. THE POST-MAO SPRINGTIME FOR SCIENCEChapter 10. Missile Science, Population Science: The Origins of China's One-Child Policy, by Susan GreenhalghChapter 11. Worker Innovation: Did Maoist Promotion Contribute to China's Present Technological and Economic Success?, by Rudi VoltiChapter 12. On the Appropriate Use of Rose-Colored Glasses: Reflections on Science in Socialist China, by Sigrid SchmalzerSelected BibliographyIndexContributors