Mr. Science and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Chunjuan Nancy Wei is associate professor and chair of the International Political Economy & Diplomacy program at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, with a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University, and her work appears in New Dynamics in East Asian Politics (2012).Darryl E. Brock is a Ph.D. candidate in modern history at Fordham University in New York City, with an M.A. in history from Claremont Graduate University, and is author of the book China and Darwinian Evolution: Influence on Intellectual and Social Development (2010).

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: Chinäs Aerospace Industry and the Cultural Revolution, by Stacey SolomoneChapter 8. Barefoot Doctors: The Legacy of Chairman Maös 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 Chinäs One-Child Policy, by Susan GreenhalghChapter 11. Worker Innovation: Did Maoist Promotion Contribute to Chinäs 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