Can Science and Technology Save China?

Susan Greenhalgh is the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society in the department of Anthropology at Harvard University.Li Zhang is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Davis.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Governing through Science: The Anthropology of Science and Technology in Contemporary China, by Susan Greenhalgh1. Numbers and the Assembling of a Community Mental Health Infrastructure in Postsocialist China, by Zhiying Ma2. Embracing Psychological Science for the "Good Life"?, by Li Zhang3. Negotiating Evidence and Efficacy in Experimental Medicine, by Priscilla Song4. Divergent Trust and Dissonant Truths in Public Health Science, by Katherine A. Mason5. China's Eco-Dream and the Making of Invisibilities in Rural-Environmental Research, by Elizabeth Lord6. The Good Scientist and the Good Multinational: Managing the Ethics of Industry-Funded Science, by Susan Greenhalgh7. The Black Soldier Fly: An Indigenous Innovation for Waste Management in Guangzhou, by Amy Zhang8. Unmasking a Gendered Materialism: Air Filtration, Cigarettes, and Domestic Discord in Urban China, by Matthew KohrmanAfterwordList of ContributorsIndex

This is a prescient and impressively coherent collection of essays based on a workshop held at Harvard University in. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the contributors—all but one of whom are anthropologists—address crucial questions about the relationship between science and the party-state, broader issues of governmentality, as well as China's status as a (bio)tech superpower.(China Review International)