Peking Man presented by The Actors Studio Seni Teater Rakyat and MUKA Space
A variety of seemingly random topics -- the subject of war, the
Peking Man, the 2007 world bridge championship -- all collide and are part of the unfolding story swirling around Ge.
Since 2009, in collaboration with scientists from Beijing's Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chen's fieldwork has involved numerous major excavations, including at China's Zhoukoudian site, renowned for the discovery of the
Peking Man fossils in the 1920s.
A second was the
Peking Man, discovered while he worked at Peking Union Medical College funded by the Rockefeller Institute.
SKULDUGGERY opens in China in 1941 when the ancient bones of the "
Peking Man" are placed in two wooden crates for shipment to the U.S.
ANSWERS: 1 Buster Keaton; 2
Peking Man; 3 Portuguese; 4 The Nissen hut; 5 Burke and Hare; 6 Brendan Behan; 7 Vidkun Quisling; 8 Andorra; 9 The Aviator; 10 The dorsal fin.
He discusses what sinology was, archaeology and the western origin of China, The Swedish Chinese Expedition, empire and ethnography, The Karlbeck Syndicate, the
Peking Man discovery, Osvald Siren's spiritual Far East, Swedish Maoism, report from a Chinese village, and anti-imperialism.
He has been a force in the development of the history of science for decades, focusing on the eighteenth-century Enlightenment (when he admits it existed) and is the author of a seminal two-volume work in the field and another on, of all things,
Peking Man. Frangsmyr's range of interests and his astonishing level of expertise in all are reflected in these essays, with topics ranging from concepts of evolution and progress in Lucretius to da Vinci's concept of nature, Torricelli's improvements of Galileo, Solomon's houses and Bianchi's academic places, Linnaeus and Darwin, the use and abuse of von Humboldt, nationalism and horticulture in the US, a divided Jules Verne, a consolidated history of reason, experiments and physics, conflicting cosmologies, and science in an age of policy.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the paleontologist who participated in the discovery of the 500,000-year-old
Peking Man in the 1920s.
BEIJING: An almost complete human skull fossil that could date back 100,000 years has been unearthed in China, the China Daily said yesterday, hailing it as the greatest discovery since
Peking Man.
THE JESUIT & THE SKULL Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for
Peking Man | AMIR D.
The most famous research result of Teilhard's work in China was his involvement in the discovery of Sinanthropus pekinensis or
Peking Man in Choukoutien (Zhoukoudian) near Beijing in 1929.