SHI, AIJIE
(2018)
NATIONALIZING SCIENCE IN REPUBLICAN CHINA: ACADEMIA SINICA’S POLICY ON INTERNATIONAL BIOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS.
Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
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Abstract
My study addresses the nationalization of science in the nation-building era of China through the establishment of Academia Sinica (Zhongyang yanjiuyuan), China’s national academy of sciences. In 1929, through its engagement with a Sino-Japanese biological expedition along the Yangzi River, Academia Sinica, as a governmental department, for the first time implemented regulations on foreign biological expeditions in China. The engagement thus paved the way for China’s first policy on the matter. By terminating international researchers’ unlimited access to Chinese natural resources, this policy established national control over all the scientific activities in China. With such institutional protection, Academia Sinica essentially established biological resources as China’s national property, and scientific research as a national enterprise. Through the process, Academia Sinica not only became the place where science and nationalistic politics could mutually empower each other, but also established itself as a monopolist in the Chinese science community. This paper examines the driving forces behind Academia Sinica’s nationalizing efforts—namely, China’s political instability and its troubled relations with Japan in the late 1920s, the necessity of the Nationalist government to assert its legitimacy and authority in its founding years, and the utility of Academia Sinica in connecting science and nationalistic politics. Based on this examination, the thesis explores the application of science as a nationalistic tool and its effect on China's scientific community, when science became a collectivist interest of Nationalist China.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Date: |
29 January 2018 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
5 December 2017 |
| Approval Date: |
29 January 2018 |
| Submission Date: |
5 December 2017 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Number of Pages: |
153 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > East Asian Studies |
| Degree: |
MA - Master of Arts |
| Thesis Type: |
Master's Thesis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
REPUBLICAN CHINA. ACADEMIA SINICA, SCIENCE, NATIONALISM |
| Date Deposited: |
29 Jan 2018 17:47 |
| Last Modified: |
29 Jan 2018 17:47 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/33647 |
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