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Unforgettable Years
Summary This memoir by Mingqing Wu, a former researcher at the Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, chronicles his extraordinary life journey. Born in a remote village in Guizhou, China. The author experienced significant historical events such as the Anti-Rightist Movement, the Great Leap Forward, the Three Years of Economic Hardship, and the Cultural Revolution. During this turbulent period, he worked as an educated youth in the countryside and later attended Guizhou University as a worker-peasant-soldier university student. After the fall of the “Gang of Four,” the author became the first graduate student at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1978,...
Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science. The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific practices, imposing methods that were project oriented, team based, and subject to national-security restrictions. These changes affected not just the arms race and the space race but also research in agriculture, biomedicine, computer science, ecology, meteorology, and other fields. This volume examines science and technology in the context of the Cold War, considering whether the new institu...
Building Bridges
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Geochemistry
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