摘要
China’s impressive scientific accomplishments in recent years,such as Tu Youyou’s 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,the dominance of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)at the top spot in the Nature Index Global Top 100 for the last seven years,and the newly completed construction of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System,have aroused widespread public interest in the contemporary Chinese development of science,technology,and medicine.This intense attention has in turn also triggered various myths,often based on misunderstanding or ignorance of relevant historical development,which calls for more and more thorough historical research.Hoping to shed some light on Chinese scientific development,we,a group of historians of science in Canada,China,Singapore,and the United States,have joined hands to present this special issue and explore“The Transnational Dimensions of Science,Technology,and Medicine in Modern China.”
