TY  - BOOK
AU  - HU,Danian
TI  - China and Albert Einstein: The Reception of the Physicist and His Theory in China, 1917-1979 
SN  - 9780674015388
AV  - QC16.E5 H79 2005eb
U1  - 530.11/0951 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Relativity (Physics)
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Prologue --; 1. Western Physics Comes to China --; 2. China Embraces the Theory of Relativity --; 3. Six Pioneers of Relativity --; 4. From Eminent Physicist to the "Poor Philosopher" --; 5. Einstein: A Hero Reborn from the Criticism --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This is the first extensive study in English or Chinese of China's reception of the celebrated physicist and his theory of relativity. In a series of biographical studies of Chinese physicists, Hu describes the Chinese assimilation of relativity and explains how Chinese physicists offered arguments and theories of their own. Hu's account concludes with the troubling story of the fate of foreign ideas such as Einstein's in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), when the theory of relativity was denigrated along with Einstein's ideas on democracy and world peace
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