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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/history-and-memory-modern-scie
 nce-china-discovery-peking-man/
SUMMARY:History and Memory of Modern Science in China: The Discovery of the
  Peking Man
DESCRIPTION:\n	Tai Li-Chuan (Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of Histo
 ry and Philology\, Academia Sinica\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n	Chair/discuss
 ant: Sigrid Schmalzer (Associate Professor\, Department of History\, UMas
 s-Amherst)\n\n	Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n
 \n\n	The discovery of the Peking Man was one of the most important events 
 for prehistoric archeology in the first half of twentieth-century China. I
 t resulted from transnational teamwork that involved scientists of seven n
 ationalities and was at that time considered to be the most successful Sin
 o-foreign scientific enterprise. Based on archival research conducted on t
 hree continents\, this presentation will highlight the three decisive fact
 ors that led to the success of the project: collective intelligence\, gene
 rous finances\, and institutional cooperation. All these aspects reflect t
 he transnational characteristic of this scientific enterprise\, which cont
 ributed to its dynamism\, but also its vulnerability\, when the conditions
  made to support it no longer existed.\n\n	Wars and political regime chang
 e marked the end of the most intense excavations and studies related to th
 is discovery. Various memories about it have appeared in China since the 1
 950s. Three principal types of memories will be analyzed: (1) the commemor
 ations of an event stressing the Chinese contributions to the discovery\, 
 (2) the promotion of the Peking Man site at Zhoukoudian\, and (3) the narr
 atives about the discovery as told by survivors.\n\n	Through this talk\, t
 he speaker will argue that history and memory are not necessarily contradi
 ctory\; both are possible modes of referring to past events. In the case o
 f the discovery of the Peking Man\, however\, despite the abundance of pop
 ular stories about it\, historical study based on archival research is sti
 ll waiting to be completed.
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