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14, pp. 159–68; and Deane 1989, pp. 401–41. 16 See Michael Adas. 1989. Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 41– 68, 79–95. , ‘Neo-Confucian’) orthodoxy stressing moral philosophy and literary values and away from earlier more specialized or technical studies. 18 When faced with foreign rule (first under the Mongols, 1240–1368, and later under the Manchus, 1644–1911) significant numbers of literati, in addition to the usual number of candidates who failed, turned to occupations outside the civil service such as medicine.

Discussing texts on hygiene as an important public site for the convergence of nationalism, racial evolution and science, Stevens shows how these texts dictated concepts of the medicalisation and scientification of the female body, female sexuality, family life and parenting, transforming formerly private spaces into sites of public contestation. This cooptism of the private in the name of the state was the result of a merging of discourses informed by indigenous moral views on gender roles as well as by modern social, technical and evolutionary theories.

Late Ming edition, after 1618, vol. 2, p. 3b; and Zhuangyuan ce (Policy essays of optimi). 1997 [1733]. Jiao Hong 6 and Wu Daonan ˼ ΰ et al. ). p. Huaidetang edition, chapter “Zongkao” , p. 15a. 41 FROM NATURAL STUDIES TO MODERN SCIENCE 39 (Record of civil examination success in the *) Source: Nanguo xianshu (ca. 1600 edition). Southern Capital Region). Compiled by Zhang Chaorui © The probability for each policy question is calculated based on the assumption that each of the five selections is mutually independent.

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