The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China
Sigrid Schmalzer’s The People’s Peking Man examines the place of popular science in twentieth-century China and its connection to ideas of human identity. The book offers a focused historical study of how scientific subjects can become part of wider cultural and social understandings.
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The People's Peking Man examines popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China.
Sigrid Schmalzer focuses on the cultural significance of Peking Man as a subject of public scientific interest.
The book connects scientific ideas with questions about how human identity was understood and represented.
It offers a historically focused perspective on the relationship between science, society, and identity in modern China.
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