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Selected Works of David N. Luesink
Dissertation
Dissecting Modernity: Anatomy and Power in the Language of Science in China
(2012)
  • David N. Luesink, Sacred Heart University
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Abstract
This study analyzes the construction of modernity by looking at a set of problems that began to be posed in a striking connection in China in the 1910s, related to anatomy, technical language and power. It does so by focusing on a network of people who created and standardized translations for scientific terminology in Chinese, beginning with the terminology for anatomy. 
Keywords
  • China,
  • Scientific terminology,
  • Anatomy,
  • Modernism
Disciplines
Publication Date
August, 2012
Degree
Ph.D.
Field of study
History
DOI
10.14288/1.0073114
Citation Information
Luesink, David N. (2012). Dissecting modernity: Anatomy and power in the language of science in China (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
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