Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Jing Tsu and Benjamin A. Elman Introduction -- Toward a History of Modern Science in Republican China -- Benjamin A. Elman -- Historiography of Science and Technology in China -- The First Phase -- Iwo Amelung -- Disciplining the National Essence -- Liu Shipei and the Reinvention of Ancient China's Intellectual History -- Joachim Kurtz -- Science in Translation -- Yan Fu's Role -- Shen Guowei -- Chinese Scripts, Codes, and Typewriting Machines -- Jing Tsu -- Semiotic Sovereignty -- The 1871 Chinese Telegraph Code in Historical Perspective -- Thomas S. Mullaney -- Proofreading Science -- Editing and Experimentation in Manuals by a 1930s Industrialist -- Eugenia Lean -- The Controversy over Spontaneous Generation in Republican China -- Science, Authority, and the Public -- Fa-ti Fan -- Bridging East and West through Physics -- William Band at Yenching University -- Danian Hu -- Periodical Space -- Language and the Creation of Scientific Community in Republican China -- Grace Shen -- Operatic Escapes -- Performing Madness in Neuropsychiatric Beijing -- Hugh Shapiro -- Index.