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RIDLEY, CHARLES P. China's scientific policies. Implications for international cooperation.
Washington, DC, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1976 0844732222 / 9780844732220 Soft Cover
92 pages, wraps, very good. The book 'examines the impact of internal political factors on the development of the sciences in China since 1966, the year the Cultural Revolution began. The extent of the disruption of work in the research institutes during that upheaval suggests the vulnerability of the sciences in China to political pressures and to power struggles within the government. A survey of the scientific literature from 1972, when journal publication resumed after a five year break, to July 1974 reveals that the Cultural Revolution reinforced an already clear tendency toward applied research. Particularly evident have been the shifts away from basic medical research and the promising work in biochemistry and oranic chemistry that was being pursued prior to 1966 and toward prevention and treatment of disease, often relying on mobilization of the masses. Meanwhile the application of dialectical materialism in the theoretical interpreation of the sciences has increased. In the light of these developments, the author concludes, Chinese interests in scientific cooperation and exchange will probably be limited to utilitarian and applied projects tied in with high-priority areas, such as agriculture and medicine, and other fields having direct applications to national development.'
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20.00 USD
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