China and Albert Einstein

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China and Albert Einstein

Author	: Danian HU
File Size	: 43,8 Mb
Publisher	: Harvard University Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 30 June 2009
ISBN	: 9780674038882
Pages	: 272 pages

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China and Albert Einstein by Danian HU Book PDF Summary

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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