Dreams of Global Science
The Transnational Politics of Chinese Biomedical Innovation
$52.25
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2027
Summary
The idea of global science is aspirational. Access to scientific resources and prestige is unevenly distributed, shaped by inequalities along the lines of nationality and other social categories. Yet this ideal still has meaning—perhaps nowhere more than in China, where the desire to become a leader in global science is held with great conviction by researchers, universities, and the state.
Larry Au examines how Chinese scientists aspire toward global science as they engage in interna…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780231220996 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0231220995 |
| Author: | Larry Au |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Imprint: | Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
In this ambitious book, Larry Au takes us inside the world of Chinese precision medicine to see the challenges involved in creating knowledge in a society whose state sees science as a tool of technonationalist development and continued state power. Theoretically provocative and engagingly written, Dreams of Global Science is a vital contribution to a growing body of social science research on Chinese knowledge production that is transforming how we understand China—and global science. – Susan Greenhalgh, author of Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola
Dreams of Global Science is a tour de force—vivid, theoretically daring, and deeply engaging. Larry Au has written the definitive account of how Chinese scientists pursue, and transform, the dream of global science. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand science, power, and geopolitics in our fractured world. – Ya-Wen Lei, author of The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China
Au shows that the “dream of global science” is neither simply propaganda nor mere aspiration—it is a sociotechnical imaginary that organizes careers, laboratories, and state policy alike, now being tested by geopolitical forces. A revelatory and beautifully argued account of what it actually means to do science in and from China today. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the politics of knowledge at the center of the US-China relationship. – Alondra Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study
This insightful book traces the transpacific journey of precision medicine from the United States to China, revealing how scientific knowledge, technologies, institutions, and talents are remade as they travel across borders. Combining balanced analysis with rich empirical research, Au offers one of the most compelling accounts to date of China’s rise as a global biomedical power while advocating for a more equitable and inclusive global knowledge order. – Lin Zhang, author of The Labor of Invention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy
Larry Au
Larry Au is an assistant professor of sociology at the City College of New York, CUNY.
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