The influence of Lysenkoism on China's genetics : the importance of the 1956 Qingdao symposium

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dc.contributor.advisorHerbert, Sandra
dc.contributor.authorLong, Alice R. Chase, 1953-
dc.contributor.departmentHistory
dc.contributor.programHistory
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-14T02:56:49Z
dc.date.available2015-10-14T02:56:49Z
dc.date.issued1993
dc.descriptionAuthor also known as: Alice R. Chase Robeson
dc.description.abstractIn 1956, prompted by Mao Zedong himself, the Qingdao symposium was convened to bring together scientists with training in "Morgan-Mendel" genetics and scientists following the Michurin school. The effects of government policy to this time had excluded the mostly western-trained geneticists from sharing their training, their skilled imagination and expertise, i n building China's agriculture. Michurin genetics, sponsored by Stalin's support of Lysenko since the 1940s, was based on the hypotheses that environmental influences were primary, including the idea of inheritance of acquired Characteristics. A study of Soviet influence is pertinent to understanding the importance of the 1956 Qingdao symposium. Doubts were already being voiced in China concerning the validity and sincerity of Soviet dictates and the quality of the advice being given in several realms of Soviet influence. This essay focuses on this event, which introduced a time of free discourse between these two ways of defining how to improve agricultural production, the Morgan-Mendel and the Michurinist.
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dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2W65P
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/564
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectChina
dc.subjectgenetics
dc.subjectLysenkoism
dc.subjectQingdao Symposium
dc.subjectMorgan-Mendel genetics
dc.subjectMichurin genetics
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.titleThe influence of Lysenkoism on China's genetics : the importance of the 1956 Qingdao symposium
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