在乡村发现科学革命: 民国北碚"科学"与"地方"的互构
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四川大学 历史文化学院, 四川 成都 610213

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K26;N24


Discovering the scientific revolution in the countryside: The mutual configuration of "science" and "locality" in Beibei during the Republic of China
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School of History and Culture, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610213, P. R. China

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    近代中国经历了一场科学革命的洗礼, 它发端于清末民初, 勃兴于二三十年代, 抗战以后日渐普及, 极大地改变了中国社会的基本面貌。以往对科学革命的认知, 受西方科学史的影响, 多聚焦大科学家和城市, 关注正式的科学组织和成建制的学科, 对科学下乡并如何改变乡村关注不多, 对科学的流动性、本土化、在地化研究不足。本文以中国第一所民办科学院"中国西部科学院"为主要研究对象, 讨论它如何将科学观念本土化、制度化, 用现代科学的观念和文化推动乡村的转型, 创造性地重塑地方社会的经济、文化基本面貌。重点讨论体系庞杂的近代科学体系, 以什么样的个性化样态进入地方社会, 地方社会如何根据自身需求、本地资源、既有基础, 设计、运行、调整当地科学的体系结构和基本建制。在中国西部科学院自己设计的组织结构图中, 其下属的理化研究所、生物研究所、农业研究所、博物馆、乡村学校、乡土报纸等核心机构, 分别对应科学研究、科学教育、科学普及等不同方面, 发挥着不同的社会功能, 将现代科学的基本意涵落实到地方矿业开发、西部动植物发现与分类、山区经济开发、科学知识和观念的普及等各个领域和方面。在这一进程中, 传统的乡村逐步转变为现代的地方, 抽象的科学得以落实和丰富。从这个意义上说, 科学在改变地方的同时, 地方也重构了科学, 使之呈现出地方的样态。乡村科学革命不是千篇一律的, 具有很强的地方性和时代性, 具有注重实用、注重普及、注重联络和资源导向的结构性特点, 值得进一步深入研究。

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    Modern China has witnessed a scientific revolution, which started in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, and became increasingly popular after the Anti-Japanese War. The scientific revolution has greatly changed the basic outlook of Chinese society. In the past, the cognition of the scientific revolution, influenced by the history of Western science, focused on great scientists and urban areas, formal scientific organizations and established disciplines, and paid little attention to how science was introduced to the countryside and changed the local conditions. There was insufficient research on the mobility and localization of science. This essay takes the first private academy of science in China, the "Western China Academy of Sciences", as the main research object, to discuss how it localized and institutionalized scientific concepts, promoted the transformation of rural areas with modern scientific concepts and culture, and creatively reshaped the basic economic and cultural features of local society. The focus is on the evolution of local scientific system, how and in what specific form it is introduced to the local society, and how the local society designs, operates and adjusts the institutional structure of local scientific system according to its own needs, local resources and existing foundations. In the organizational chart designed by the Western China Academy of Sciences, its core institutions consist of the Institute of Physics and Chemistry, the Institute of Biology, the Institute of Agriculture, the museum, the rural schools, the local newspapers among others. These institutions correspond to different aspects such as scientific research, scientific education, and popularization of science, and play different social functions, implementing the basic meaning of modern science in various fields and aspects such as local mining development, discovery and classification of animals and plants in the western China, economic development in mountainous areas, and popularization of scientific knowledge and concepts. In this process, traditional villages gradually transformed into modern places, and abstract science was implemented and enriched. In this sense, while science changed the place, the place also reconstructed science, making it present a local form. The rural scientific revolution has a strong local and contemporary nature. It has the structural characteristics of focusing on practicality, popularization, communication, and resource orientation, which deserves further in-depth study.

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王果.在乡村发现科学革命: 民国北碚"科学"与"地方"的互构[J].重庆大学学报社会科学版,2024,30(4):157-172. DOI:10.11835/j. issn.1008-5831. rw.2024.06.001

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