Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Conventions

Introduction

1 “From ‘Dragon Bones’ to Scientific Research”: Peking Man and Popular Paleoanthropology in Pre-1949 China
2 “A United Front against Superstition”: Science Dissemination, 1940–1971
3 “The Concept of Human": In Search of Human Identity, 1940–1971
4 “Labor Created Science”: The Class Politics of Scientific Knowledge, 1940–1971
5 “Presumptuous Guests Usurp the Hosts”: Dissemination and Participation, 1971–1978
6 “Springtime for Science,” but What a Garden: Mystery, Superstition, and Fanatics in the Post-Máo Era
7 “From Legend to Science,” and Back Again? Bigfoot, Science, and the People in Post-Máo China
8 “Have We Dug at Our Ancestral Shrine?” Post-Máo Ethnic Nationalism and Its Limits
Conclusion
Bibliography

Index