Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

List of Figures

pp.：  7 – 8

Notes on Contributors

pp.：  9 – 12

Introduction

pp.：  13 – 26

Jing Tsu and Benjamin A. Elman Introduction

pp.：  13 – 26

Toward a History of Modern Science in Republican China

pp.：  27 – 50

Benjamin A. Elman

pp.：  27 – 50

Historiography of Science and Technology in China

pp.：  51 – 78

The First Phase

pp.：  51 – 78

Iwo Amelung

pp.：  51 – 78

Disciplining the National Essence

pp.：  79 – 104

Liu Shipei and the Reinvention of Ancient China’s Intellectual History

pp.：  79 – 104

Joachim Kurtz

pp.：  79 – 104

Science in Translation

pp.：  105 – 126

Yan Fu’s Role

pp.：  105 – 126

Shen Guowei

pp.：  105 – 126

Chinese Scripts, Codes, and Typewriting Machines

pp.：  127 – 164

Jing Tsu

pp.：  127 – 164

Semiotic Sovereignty

pp.：  165 – 196

The 1871 Chinese Telegraph Code in Historical Perspective

pp.：  165 – 196

Thomas S. Mullaney

pp.：  165 – 196

Proofreading Science

pp.：  197 – 220

Editing and Experimentation in Manuals by a 1930s Industrialist

pp.：  197 – 220

Eugenia Lean

pp.：  197 – 220

The Controversy over Spontaneous Generation in Republican China

pp.：  221 – 256

Science, Authority, and the Public

pp.：  221 – 256

Fa-ti Fan

pp.：  221 – 256

Bridging East and West through Physics

pp.：  257 – 280

William Band at Yenching University

pp.：  257 – 280

Danian Hu

pp.：  257 – 280

Periodical Space

pp.：  281 – 308

Language and the Creation of Scientific Community in Republican China

pp.：  281 – 308

Grace Shen

pp.：  281 – 308

Operatic Escapes

pp.：  309 – 338

Performing Madness in Neuropsychiatric Beijing

pp.：  309 – 338

Hugh Shapiro

pp.：  309 – 338

Index

pp.：  339 – 360