Workshop: Noa Nahmias (York University)
Discussant: Grace Yen Shen (Fordham University)
‘The world of science at your doorstep’: Universal and national visions in Popular Science magazine, 1933 - 1937.
Abstract:
This chapter asks how science popularizers in China in the 1930s addressed questions of science as universal and science for national strengthening. It does so by examining the magazine Popular Science (Kexue huabao 科學畫報) from 1933 to 1937, focusing on the magazine’s publishing infrastructure, its material aspects such as formatting and visuals, and its circulation. I posit that Popular Science contained competing narratives on what science meant for China. On the one hand, the publisher and editors produced a transnational imaginary of science, while on the other hand they were committed to creating a local version of modern science.
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