The Study of Change: Chemistry in China, 1840-1949 - James Reardon-Anderson - Google Books

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When Western missionaries introduced modern chemistry to China in the 1860s, they called this discipline hua-hsueh, literally, "the study of change." In this first full-length work on science in modern China, James Reardon-Anderson describes the…