China Voyager: Gist Gee's Life in Science

by Willliam J. Haas

Overview

A biography of an important but little-known American scientist that evokes the issues of religious and secular beliefs and the evolution of Chinese scientific and educational institutions during the early 1900s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563246753
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/30/1995
Series:	East Gate Reader Series
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

One: A Problem and Its Solution, 1921; I: Part I; Two: South Carolina Origins, 1876–1901; Three: Western Education in China: Reformers and Missionaries, 1860–1901; Four: Teaching Science in Suzhou: Dongwu University, 1901–1920; II: Part II; Five: Mid-Life Changes, 1920–1923; Six: Rockefeller Adviser in Beijing, 1922–1927; Seven: Bicultural Science in Beijing: Organizer and Researcher, 1924–1929; Eight: End of a Program, 1927–1932; III: Part III; Nine: New York, 1932–1935; Ten: Closing the Circle, 1935–1937; Note on Romanization