Title: Natural History and Natural Resources through the Earth Sciences in Modern China after 1900
Subject Classification:  History, Economics and Finance, Science  
BIC Classification: HB, KC, JP
BISAC Classification: HIS008000, SCI031000, POL011000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Publication date: 03 Oct 2024
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80441-815-4
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80441-816-1

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Description

This book provides an overview of major changes in mainland China since the start of the modern era in 1900, as leaders grappled with how to harness natural resources requiring equal development in the pure and applied sciences based on fundamentals in geology.
On one hand, China was put on the global stage with discovery of Peking Man fossils in the 1920s but has continued to win global acclaim for more recent discoveries of feathered dinosaurs and the earliest examples of metazoan life. At the same time, China struggled against outside exploitation to take full control of its own mineral and oil reserves -which today are increasingly imported from abroad to maintain oil and steel production through the Belt and Road initiative.
The book concludes with a a discussion of what the ‘Chinese Dream’ may mean in comparison to what many in the United States consider as a birthright with the ‘American Dream’.

Biography

Author(s):  Markes E. Johnson is the Charles L. MacMillan Professor of Natural Science, Emeritus, at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA.

Reviews

"I greatly enjoyed this book, vicariously traveling with author Johnson on his research trips in China, from 1980s onward, even learning a little geology from his nonspecialist descriptions of China’s rock formations. More important are his social experiences and research associations as an American academic in the decades after Mao’s death and the reopening of China to the West. Having spent a week in China myself, with my wife 20 years ago, this memoir pushed my own memory’s buttons, recalling that wonderful adventure."
- Dr Alan Mazur (Syracuse University, New York State)