Knowledge Acts in Modern China

Introduction: Knowledge Systems, Knowledge Producers, and China's Distinctive Modernity - Robert Culp and Eddy U

Part I. New Systems of Academic Learning
1. Coming to Terms with Global Competition: The Rise of Historical Geography in Early Twentieth-Century China- Tze-ki Hon
2. Drawing Boundaries in Sand: Anthropology in Republican China - Clayton Brown

Part II. Technical Knowledge and the Professions
3. From Literati to Legal Professionals: The First-Generation Chinese Law School Graduates and Their Career Patterns - Huei-min Sun
4. The Chinese Judge: From Literatus to Cadre, 1906-1949 - Glenn Tiffert
5. The Making of the Civil Engineer in China: Knowledge Transfer, Institution Building, and the Rise of a Profession - Elisabeth Köll

Part III. Media and the Market
6. Economics with Chinese Characteristics: The Production of Economic Knowledge in Early Republican China - Bryna Goodman
7. Mass Production of Knowledge and the Industrialization of Mental Labor: The Rise of the Petty Intellectual - Robert Culp
8. Journalism as a Field of Knowledge in Republican China: Ideas, Institutions, and Politics- Timothy B. Weston

Part IV. Party Control and Construction
9. Looking Toward the Future: State Standardization and Professionalization of Science in Wartime China - J. Megan Greene
10. Making Maoism: Ideology and Organizations in the Yan'an Rectification Movement, 1942-1944 - Timothy Cheek
11. The Formation of Intellectuals in Yan'an - Eddy U