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Name: The Emergence of Modern Biotechnology in China
ID: m14424
Language: English (en)
Summary: Science and technology of Republican China (1912-1949) often replicated the West in all hierar-chies. However, in 1949 when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) declared the nation the Peo-ple's Republic of China, it had assumed Soviet pseudo-science, namely neo-Lamarckian and anti-Mendelian Lysenkoism, which led to intense propaganda campaigns that victimized intellectuals and natural scientists. Not until the 1956 Double Hundred Campaign had China engaging in meaningful exploration into modern genetics with advancements of Morgan. The CCP encour-aged discussions on the impact of Lysenkoism which cultivated guidelines to move science for-ward. However, Mao ended the campaign by asserting the Anti-Rightist Movement (1957) that reinstated the persecution of intellectuals, for he believed they did not contribute to his socialist ethos of the working people. The Great Leap Forward (1958-1959), an idealist and unrealistic attempt to rapidly industrialize the nation, and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), a grand at-tempt to rid China of the "technological elite," extended China's lost years to a staggering two decades. Post-Mao China rapidly revived its science and technology frontier with specialized sciences: agricultural biotechnology, major genomic ventures, modernizing Traditional Chinese Medicine, and stem-cell research. Major revisions to the country’s patent laws increased interna-tional interest in China’s resources. However, bioethical and technical standards still need to be implemented and locally and nationally monitored if China’s scientific advances are to be glob-ally accepted and commercialized. Abbreviations - CCP: Chinese Communist Party; PRC: People's Republic of China; CAS: Chinese Academy of Sciences; NNSF: National Natural Science Foundation; CNCBD: China National Center for Bio-technology Development; HGP: Human Genome Project; MoST: Ministry of Science and Tech-nology; BAC: bacterial artificial chromosome; HB: Hepatitis B; TCM: Traditional Chinese Medicine; CATCM: China Academy for Traditional Chinese Medicine; ES: embryonic stem; MPH: Ministry of Public Health; GMO: genetically modified organism; UCSD: University of California, San Diego; CQMHTIO: Chongqing Municipality High-Technology Industrialization Office. Citation - Lakhan, S E (2006), "The Emergence of Modern Biotechnology in China", Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, 3: 333-353.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: history, stem cell, bioethics, agriculture, intellectual property, Lysenkoism
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: Dr. Shaheen E Lakhan (slakhan@gnif.org)
Copyright Holders: Dr. Shaheen E Lakhan (slakhan@gnif.org)
Maintainers: Dr. Shaheen E Lakhan (slakhan@gnif.org)
Latest version: 1.1 (history)
First publication date: Apr 4, 2007 3:40 am GMT-5
Last revision to module: Apr 4, 2007 5:47 am GMT-5
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