Weimin Xiong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Weimin Xiong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Weimin |
| FAMILY NAME | Xiong |
| SIGNATURE | XIONG W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Science and Technology of China |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Launch of a Political Satellite
Archives and oral histories show that the Ming Tombs Reservoir was a showcase project in Communist China directed by and involving the country's top leaders. This was one of the first projects to rely on the mobilization of physical labor rather than specialized machinery, driven by a belief in self-reliance and the use of local resources. It argues that the focus on the "masses," rather than engineers or scientists, challenged established engine…
Hongye Fan
Professor Hongye Fan 樊洪业 (1942-2020) was a distinguished historian, scholar, and editor in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing who helped lay the foundation for the historical studies of science in modern China with his writings, editing work on primary sources, and organizational efforts. Trained in biology he published historical studies on a wide-range of topics, including Jesuit missionaries in China, the May Fourth movement, Sci…
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Hongye Fan
Professor Hongye Fan 樊洪业 (1942-2020) was a distinguished historian, scholar, and editor in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing who helped lay the foundation for the historical studies of science in modern China with his writings, editing work on primary sources, and organizational efforts. Trained in biology he published historical studies on a wide-range of topics, including Jesuit missionaries in China, the May Fourth movement, Sci…
The Launch of a Political Satellite
Archives and oral histories show that the Ming Tombs Reservoir was a showcase project in Communist China directed by and involving the country's top leaders. This was one of the first projects to rely on the mobilization of physical labor rather than specialized machinery, driven by a belief in self-reliance and the use of local resources. It argues that the focus on the "masses," rather than engineers or scientists, challenged established engine…
China (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Beijing (1 work) · Chinese academy of sciences (1 work) · Classics (1 work) · Classics (1 work) · Communism (1 work)