China's Cold War Science Diplomacy

ISBN-13: 9781108844574 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Gordon Barrett

Opis

The first extended study of Chinese engagement in international science during the Cold War.

Recenzje

'Gordon Barrett has probed deeply into a variety of sources in writing this interesting and suggestive book. He offers new insights into how science served China's united-front operations … the study also prompts us to think more carefully about science and international affairs in our current era of transnational science and technology.' Richard P. Suttmeier, H-Sci-Med-Tech

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Note on the text; List of key abbreviations; Introduction; 1. A Scientific United Front at Home and Abroad: Chinese Communist Party-Aligned Science Organisations and the World Federation of Scientific Workers, 1946–1956; 2. Between Pugwash and the party-state: Scientists, agency, and transnational activism in the early Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, 1955–1960; 3. 'Friends and comrades, we fight against imperialism': The radical evolution of China's science diplomacy, 1960–1968; 4. Linking the local, national, and international: Scientific organisations and foreign affairs in the 'Peking Science Symposium' conferences, 1964–1966; 5. A spectrum of propaganda and scientific exchange: British socialist scientists and 'New China'; Conclusion: Situating scientists in China's foreign relations; Select bibliography; Index.