The power within: Mass media, scientific entertainment, and the introduction of psychical research into China, 1900–1920

IF 0.6 3区 历史学 Q3 HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira
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How did a new science initially promoted by only a few individuals eventually become a widespread cultural phenomenon practiced and known by thousands of people? Following a transnational approach, this article traces the introduction of psychical research into China during the first two decades of the 20th century. Known in the Republican period (1912–1949) as Spiritual Science (xinling kexue or xinling yanjiu), psychical research flourished between the 1920s and 1930s, playing a key role in the popularization of applied psychology and mind-cure across China. This article takes a step back from the heyday of Spiritual Science by looking at the period that immediately preceded and helped define it. Focused on wide-circulation newspapers, popular manuals, and stage performances, it teases out the ways in which Chinese popular culture translated European, American, and Japanese psychical research to local Chinese audiences in the midst of China's search for modernity. By naturalizing the reality of psychic powers, spiritual scientists blurred the boundaries between science and superstition in a period when these were posited as diametrically opposed.

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内在的力量:大众传媒、科学娱乐和心理研究进入中国,1900-1920
一门最初只有少数人提倡的新科学是如何最终成为一种被成千上万的人实践和了解的广泛文化现象的?本文采用跨国视角,追溯了20世纪头20年心理学研究进入中国的历程。在民国时期(1912-1949),心理学研究被称为精神科学,在20世纪20年代到30年代之间蓬勃发展,在中国应用心理学和心灵治疗的普及中发挥了关键作用。这篇文章从精神科学的全盛时期往回走一步,看看它之前的时期,并帮助定义它。本书聚焦于广泛发行的报纸、流行手册和舞台表演,梳理了在中国寻求现代性的过程中,中国流行文化如何将欧洲、美国和日本的心理学研究转化为中国本土观众。通过将精神力量的现实自然化,精神科学家模糊了科学和迷信之间的界限,而这两者在当时被认为是截然相反的。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, international journal devoted to the scientific, technical, institutional, and cultural history of the social and behavioral sciences. The journal publishes research articles, book reviews, and news and notes that cover the development of the core disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, economics, linguistics, communications, political science, and the neurosciences. The journal also welcomes papers and book reviews in related fields, particularly the history of science and medicine, historical theory, and historiography.
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