National climate: Zhu Kezhen and the framing of the atmosphere in modern China.
| Title: | National climate: Zhu Kezhen and the framing of the atmosphere in modern China. |
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| Authors: | Frank, Mark E.1 (AUTHOR) mark.frank@fulbright.edu.vn |
| Source: | History of Science. Dec2024, Vol. 62 Issue 4, p562-590. 29p. |
| Subject Terms: | *CLIMATOLOGY, *ATMOSPHERIC sciences, *WORLD War II, *TECHNICAL reports, *POLITICAL doctrines |
| Geographic Terms: | CHINA |
| Abstract: | Can climate be Chinese, and if so, then how? Drawing on personal writings, popular discourse, and scientific reports, this essay considers the work of early Chinese meteorologists in relation to the revolutionary national politics of the early twentieth century. Historians of China have established that nationalism motivated the pursuit of meteorology and other natural sciences, but I advance the more radical position that there was no clear distinction between the practice of climate science and the political ideology that motivated it. With special attention to the career and legacy of Zhu Kezhen from the Xinhai Revolution through World War II, I test this thesis in two arenas: Chinese meteorologists' production of spatial knowledge, and their production of cultural knowledge. The nation was integral to the questions, methods, and analyses of atmospheric science, which helped to reify the Chinese nation-state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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