A Revolution Across Art and Science: Participatory Knowledge Production in China’s Great Leap Forward - Edited by Christine I. Ho and Sigrid Schmalzer - 文宇宙｜Bookniverse

A Revolution Across Art and Science: Participatory Knowledge Production in China’s Great Leap Forward

Edited by Christine I. Ho and Sigrid Schmalzer

US $28.80

US $36.00

2026/07

9789888900442

ePub

Hong Kong University Press

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书籍简介

History > Chinese History

Art > Other Art Form

A Revolution Across Art and Science examines how laborers reimagined knowledge during a high point of radicalism in modern Chinese history. Encouraged to become curators, historians, writers, artists, technicians, scientists, and other kinds of experts, Chinese workers and peasants were mobilized to produce new knowledge in the humanities and sciences. Moving beyond the economic questions that have dominated most previous scholarship on the Great Leap Forward, this volume explores the cultural dimensions of the movement to establish the significance of mass knowledge production. Through ten case studies authored by emerging scholars, A Revolution Across Art and Science offers a simultaneously empathetic and critical inquiry into PRC history and its impact on ongoing efforts to democratize knowledge around the world.

作者简介

Edited by Christine I. Ho and Sigrid Schmalzer

Christine I. Ho is associate professor of East Asian art history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Drawing from Life: Sketching and Socialist Realism in the People’s Republic of China (2020). Sigrid Schmalzer is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China (2008) and Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (2015).

出版社简介

Established in 1956, and part of the University of Hong Kong, Asia’s most prominent English-speaking university, HKU Press publishes more than 30 new titles annually, with a growing proportion (more than 25%) in Chinese. Building on Hong Kong's unique global position, HKU Press books examine, critique, and celebrate Asia’s place in the world. We have gained particular renown for publications in Chinese history and culture, law, public health, social work, film/media studies, art and architecture/urban planning.