Ruth Rogaski, "Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
New Books in Chinese Studies
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The Scientific Redemption of Manjuria
I think centering the people who are working in harmony or in sympathy with these sorts of broad ways of thinking is probably the best approach, right? Because then we stop short of saying that modern science is just another religion. So what I saw was a very clear attempt at using science to indicate what was the nature that belonged within the borders of China, of new China. And potentially on the part of the scientists themselves attempts to redeem their, their past of cooperating and cooperating with international science.
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