An edition of The people's Peking man (2008)
The people's Peking man
popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China
By Sigrid Schmalzer
Publish Date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press,University Of Chicago Press
Language
eng
Pages
341
Description:
After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking man became a prominent figure in the Chinese movement to bring science to the people. In a new state with twin goals of crushing superstition and establishing a socialist society, the story of human evolution was the first lesson in Marxist philosophy delivered to the masses.
subjects: Communism and science, Paleoanthropology, Peking man, Anthropology, China, history, Communism and social sciences, Fossil hominids, Homo erectus, Paleontology, Communism, china, Science, china, NATURE, Fossils, Pekingmensch, Paläanthropologie, Popularisierung, Kommunismus, Wissenschaft
Places: China