Table of Contents

On the Emancipation of the Mind.- Essay on the Role of Science and Democracy in Society.- Historical Development of the Chinese Communist Party’s Scientific Policy (Prior to the Founding of the People’s Republic).- Speeches at the Qingdao Genetics Conference of 1956.- The Qingdao Conference of 1956 on Genetics: The Historical Background and Fundamental Experiences.- Concepts of Space and Time in Ancient China and in Modern Cosmology.- Information and Feedback in Epistemology.- Time: A Philosophical Survey.- The Concept of ‘Primordial Motion’: Past and Present.- On the Unity of Biology and Physics.- Homeostasis and Chinese Traditional Medicine: Commenting on Cannon’s The Wisdom of the Body.- The Book of Changes and Mathematics.- The Structure of Science and Technology in History: On the Factors Delaying the Development of Science and Technology in China in Comparison with the West since the 17th Century (Part One).- Historical Changes in the Structure of Science and Technology (Part Two, A Commentary).- The Problem of Demarcation of Periods in the History of Science.- A Brief Account of Chinese Studies of the History of Science and Technology in China.- The Development of Modern Physics in China: The 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese Physical Society.- A Preliminary Study of the Characteristics of Metallurgical Technology in Ancient China.- Liu Hui’s Theories of Mathematics.- A Comparison of the Structures of the Mathematical Systems of China and the West: Several Revelations from Information Theory.- The Historical Value of the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art in Society and the Economy.- Studies of the South-Pointing Chariot: Survey of the Past 80 Years.- A Comparison of Archimedes’ and Liu Hui’s Studies of Circles.- The StruggleBetween Evolutionary Theory and Creationism in China.- Why did Zheng He’s Sea Voyage Fail to Lead the Chinese to Make the ‘Great Geographic Discovery’?.- The Effect of the Autocratic Monarchy of the Qing Dynasty on Science and Technology.- A Preliminary Analysis of Scientific Development and its Causes in Anhui Province during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.- Li Shanlan: Forerunner of Modern Science in China.- Hua Hengfang: Forerunner and Disseminator of Modern Science in China.- Cai Yuanpei’s Contributions to China’s Science.- The Treatise on Fevers and Miscellaneous Diseases: Vicissitudes during the Millenium after its Completion.- A Critique of ‘Zhang Heng’s Theory of a Spherical Earth’.- Niels Bohr in China.- Millikan and China.- Norbert Wiener at Qinghua University.- Notes on the Contributors.- Index of Non-Chinese Names.- Index of Chinese Names.