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2025
The Radiance of France
In fact, what surprised me most after finishing this book was the extent to which its arguments are saturated with Foucauldian undertones. For a long time, I felt that Foucault’s grand discourses…
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Seeking Certain Numbers: Making It Count
A Review of Arunabh Ghosh’s Making It Count In the grand narrative of the history of science and technology during the Cold War, Arunabh Ghosh’s Making It Count offers a unique revisionist…
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China’s Techno-Warriors
This monograph was published in 2003. Reviewing it now, two decades after its release, one cannot help but adopt the perspective of a Monday-morning quarterback. The passage of time, the declassification of…
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China’s Techno-Warriors: reading notes
Part 1： p. 19: However, according to the research of Shen Zhihua, China and the Soviet Union never reached a consensus on the matter of a nuclear protection umbrella; nor did the Chinese…
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Arguments that Count
Regarding weapons research and computing research during the Cold War, the works of Nathan Ensmenger (The Computer Boys Take Over), Fred Turner (From Counterculture to Cyberculture), and of course, Rebecca Slayton’s Arguments…
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Inventing the Internet: Rediscovering the Tension between Military and Civilian Technology
Professor Janet Abbate’s Inventing the Internet is a foundational work in the study of the internet. Precisely because it is a foundational work, looking back from two decades later at this book—published…
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2024
The Cold War and the Fate of the Sino-Soviet Alliance
读书笔记 reading notes出版年: 2013-1出版社：社会科学文献出版社ISBN: 9787509731888 This work is undoubtedly a masterpiece. It is always deeply moving to witness a massive volume of historical materials skillfully organized to elucidate historical truths. The numerous documents and…
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无奈的选择：冷战与中苏同盟的命运
这部作品无疑是一部杰作。每当看到海量的史料被巧妙地组织起来以阐述历史真相时，总是令人深感震撼。众多的文献和资料，强有力地支撑了作者对中苏关系的深入论证。沈志华教…