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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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Ci Yungui
国防科技大学出版社 2017年2月1日 ISBN:9787567304864 雷勇
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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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China’s Path to Modernity Through the Typewriter
In 2012, for an undergraduate reading report, I submitted an analysis of Lin Yutang’s The Gay Genius: The Life and Times of Su Tungpo. It was in that book I first learned…
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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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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
My initial interest in this book stemmed from a stray thought I had back in 2014, when I was chatting with a friend about a question on how to define economic growth:…
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2024
Agricultural Technology and Its Political Continuity: Red Revolution, Green Revolution
Beginning with The People’s Peking Man, Professor Schmalzer has demonstrated a keen focus on the history of popular science in China, particularly through the lens of elite-mass relations. Red Revolution, Green Revolution…
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Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
the relative reviews are in the end of this passage. The book’s entry point is exceptionally sophisticated. By analyzing the developmental history of a coal mine spanning nearly a century, it explores…
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Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
本书的切入点非常精妙，通过分析一个跨越近百年的煤矿的发展历史，来探究经营这个煤矿的历史上的政权是如何试图通过这个煤矿来解决自己的问题。从封建制度的清王朝到帝国主…