China Voyager : Gist Gee's Life in Science

Name: China Voyager:Gist Gee's Life in Science
ISBN: 9781315481296

doi:10.4324/9781315481296

ABSTRACT

A biography of an important but little-known American scientist that evokes the issues of religious and secular beliefs and the evolution of Chinese scientific and educational institutions during the early 1900s.

China Voyager

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter One|12 pages

A Problem and Its Solution, 1921

part I|113 pages

Part I

chapter Two|37 pages

South Carolina Origins, 1876–1901

chapter Three|37 pages

Western Education in China: Reformers and Missionaries, 1860–1901

chapter Four|37 pages

Teaching Science in Suzhou: Dongwu University, 1901–1920

part II|93 pages

Part II

chapter Five|17 pages

Mid-Life Changes, 1920–1923

chapter Six|26 pages

Rockefeller Adviser in Beijing, 1922–1927

chapter Seven|20 pages

Bicultural Science in Beijing: Organizer and Researcher, 1924–1929

chapter Eight|28 pages

End of a Program, 1927–1932

part III|57 pages

Part III

chapter Nine|46 pages

New York, 1932–1935

chapter Ten|9 pages

Closing the Circle, 1935–1937

chapter |1 pages

Note on Romanization