The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China by Sigrid Schmalzer

The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China

Sigrid Schmalzer

336 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

history challenging informative slow-paced
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In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man became a prominent figure in the movement to brin...

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