FOCUS： HISTORY OF SCIENCES IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

• Basic Science Research: Concept-based Historical Analysis
• ZHANG Jiuchen
• Basic science research is a concept that emerged after the institutionalization of science. Although there is no unified definitio...
• 2019, 38 (2): 127-139

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• Carrying out "Planned Science": The Formulation and Influence of Two Long-term Plans of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1955 to 1956
• GUO Jinhai
• After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the central authorities saw science as primarily serving the nationa...
• 2019, 38 (2): 140-164

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ARTICLES

• Textual Research on the Term "Jiandang Guan" in the Xiyuan Jilu
• HAN Jianping
• The meaning of the term "jiandang guan" in the Tiaoling(Regulations) section of the work on Xiyuan Jilu
• 2019, 38 (2): 165-171

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• An In-depth Study on Indian kut·t·aka and Comparison with the Chinese Da-yan Rule
• LÜ Peng, JI Zhigang
• The word Kut·t·aka means the problem of first order indefinite analysis and also the operational algorithm of this kind of ...
• 2019, 38 (2): 172-188

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• The Agricultural Work Yishao Jizheng by Chen Jin and the Introduction of the Sweet Potato to Shaanxi Province
• XIONG Dibing
• A work on cultivating the sweet potato, Yishao Jizheng by Chen Jin, was written during the Daoguang period (1820-1850). How...
• 2019, 38 (2): 189-199

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• Raphael Pumpelly and the Modern Geology of China Loess
• DING Hong
• Loess is the most important aeolian deposit of the Quaternary. China has the most continuous and thickest loess area in the world....
• 2019, 38 (2): 200-214

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• The Occurrence and Evolution of the Translation Dislocation between the Term Pi in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Spleen in Western Medicine
• ZHOU Donghao, LIU Guang
• At the beginning of interactions between Chinese and Western medicine in the late 16th century, Western medicine was unaware that ...
• 2019, 38 (2): 215-229

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• The Zi-Ka-Wei Observatory in La Nature: A Case of Science as a Benefit for People and to Honour One's Country
• WU Yan
• The Zi-Ka-Wei Observatory was founded by French Jesuits in Shanghai in 1873, and was one of the important scientific institutions ...
• 2019, 38 (2): 230-247

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