Propagating the Best of Our Nation: Science Society of China and Early Historiography of Chinese Mathematics

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15994/j.1000-0763.2016.03.004" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.15994/j.1000-0763.2016.03.004</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15994/j.1000-0763.2016.03.004" target="_blank" >10.15994/j.1000-0763.2016.03.004</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Propagating the Best of Our Nation: Science Society of China and Early Historiography of Chinese Mathematics

Original language description

The Science Society of China (SSC) and its journal Science (Kexue) provided from its early years space for historical studies on Chinese mathematics. Despite dismissive attitude of SSC's first president Ren Hongjun to China's intellectual heritage, younger members were eager to cover history of Chinese mathematics. The bridge engineer Mao Yisheng was especially instrumental by inviting Li Yan and Qian Baocong to publish in Kexue. The journal published almost 20 per cent of all articles on the history of Chinese mathematics between 1915 and 1939. The reasons for this alignment include a) emergence of history of mathematics as a modern discipline abroad, serving as a model and opportunity to provide a Chinese contribution to international scholarship, b) interest of the generation of scientists born in the 1890s to raise China's international profile, c) traditional mathematics was a "safe" historical product in contrast to e.g. traditional Chinese medicine.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AB - History

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/LK11218" target="_blank" >LK11218: Deconstruction and construction of national traditions and science in China</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Dialectics of Nature

ISSN

1000-0763

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

38

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CN - CHINA

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

34-41

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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