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Bending and Fitting: Disciplinarized Institutionalization of Modern Science in China during the ‘Treaty Century’

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  • Kai Wang

    (Department of Philosophy of Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China)

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This article investigates how Western science established itself through disciplinarized institutionalization in China as the country entered the modern era, delineating China’s science and technology (S&T) enterprises evolving within the social settings primarily decided by Confucianism doctrines including Scholar-bureaucrat virtue. Although the perspective of this study is mainly historical, I also adopt a sociological approach to scientific knowledge production in order to argue that, the socialization of Western science during the ‘Treaty Century’ (1842–1943) has shaped and channeled the growth of modern S&T as well as its governance in contemporary China in a normative manner. It is this sociological interpretation of the history of modern science in China that sheds new light on our understanding of scientific knowledge as a component element of belief system that crosses countries, social structures, and civilizations. The main findings also include the premises on which the S&T governance issues are explored in China’s case, in particular, the increased social mobility at the intrusion of the Western.

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  • Kai Wang, 2017. "Bending and Fitting: Disciplinarized Institutionalization of Modern Science in China during the ‘Treaty Century’," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 6(4), pages 1-12, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:6:y:2017:i:4:p:153-:d:123500
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