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041 0 $aEnglish
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100 1 $aMunro, Donald J.$4auth
245 10 $aThe Imperial Style of Inquiry in Twentieth-Century China : The Emergence of New Approaches
260 $bUniversity of Michigan Press$c2020
300 $a1 electronic resource (159 p.)
506 0 $aOpen Access$2star$fUnrestricted online access
520 $aHow have traditional Chinese ways of thinking affected problem solving in this century? The traditional, imperial style of inquiry is associated with the belief that the universe is a coherent, internally structured unity understandable through the similarly structured human mind. It involves a reliance on antecedent and authoritarian models, coupled with an introspective focus in investigations, at some cost to objective fact gathering. In contrast, emergent forms of inquiry are guided by the values of individual autonomy and new perspectives on objectivity. In the 1930s and 1940s, some liberal educators held the model of Western science in great esteem, and some scientists practicing objective inquiry helped to create an awareness in the urban areas of inquiry not directed by political values. Drawing on philosophical, social science, and popular culture materials, Donald Munro shows that the two strains coexisted in twentieth century China as mixed motives. Many important figures were motivated by a desire to act consistently with the social values associated with the premodern or received view of knowledge and inquiry. At the same time, these people often had other motives, such as utilitarian values, efficiency, and entrepreneurship. Munro argues that while many competing positions can coexist in the same person, the seeds of the positive, instrumental value of individual autonomy in Chinese inquiry are beginning to compete in both scholarly and popular culture with other, older approaches.
536 $aNational Endowment for the Humanities
540 $aCreative Commons$fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/$2cc$4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
546 $aEnglish
653 $aSociety and social sciences
653 $aVeterinary medicine: infectious diseases and therapeutics
653 $aMedical anthropology
856 40 $awww.oapen.org$uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/19e22e37-23c2-407f-9608-768250fb80b5/9780472901784.pdf$70$zOAPEN Library: download the publication
856 40 $awww.oapen.org$uhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41562$70$zOAPEN Library: description of the publication