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Questions of national identity have long dominated China’s political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nationhood came to the fore. In Unearthing the Nation, Grace Yen Shen uses the development of modern geology to explore this complex relationship between science and nationalism in Republican China. Shen shows that Chinese geologists—in battling growing Western and Japanese encroachment of Chinese sovereignty—faced two ongoing challenges: how to develop objective, internationally recognized scientific authority without effacing native identity, and how to serve China when China was still searching for a stable national form. Shen argues that Chinese geologists overcame these obstacles by experimenting with different ways to associate the subjects of their scientific study, the land and its features, with the object of their political and cultural loyalties. This, in turn, led them to link national survival with the establishment of scientific authority in Chinese society. The first major history of modern Chinese geology, Unearthing the Nation introduces the key figures in the rise of the field, as well as several key organizations, such as the Geological Society of China, and explains how they helped bring Chinese geology onto the world stage.

本書由一位中國地質愛好者以簡體中文及英文編寫而成，本冊為pdf 版本。作者根據他在2021年編撰出版之《中國地塊解讀－與地質愛好者一起探索》而修訂。在修訂過程中，作者除保留及更新了繁體版豐富的中國地質知識及超過一百張地原插圖及地圖外，還補充了大量結合旅遊與地原的圖片，令內容更豐富及生動。作者冀能透過本書與地質愛好者，通過旅遊來一起探索中國之美麗山河與地質知識。 This is a pdf version of the book which is written in Simplified Chinese and English by a dedicated amateur geologist fascinated with the geology of China. It is a revised version to the traditional Chinese and English version of "Reading China's Rock Formations - Discovering with geology enthusiasts" written by the author in 2021. The author not only retaining and updating the plentiful Chinese geological knowledge and more than 100 useful diagrams, maps and photos he shared in the traditional Chinese version, he also enriched the present edition with many travel photos and geographic pictures, which enhances this book's geological knowledge and information. The author loves to share both these books with amateurs and professional geologists alike.

Geology of the China Seas represents the first English-language synthesis of the available research into the geology of the South and East China Seas. Among the marginal basins worldwide, these areas have been the focus of extensive research activities in the last three decades, and are now among the global hot spots in hydrocarbon explorations and scientific investigations. The region is experiencing rapid economic development with the offshore petroleum industry providing approximately one third of the domestic hydrocarbon production for mainland China. Gas hydrates have been successfully recovered from the China Seas for the first time. Over the years, many volumes on the geology of the China Seas have been published in Chinese. Although an increasing number of papers in English have appeared recently, the majority deal with local or regional paleo-environment and sedimentology, and are scattered in different journals. This book brings together this rich data in one resource, particularly that generated by Chinese marine geologists and petroleum geologists, and provides the very first synthesis of the geology off China. - The first systematic summary of the geology of the China Seas - Includes comprehensive coverage of the South China Sea and the East China Sea, including the Yellow Sea and Bohai Gulf - Reviews hundreds of Chinese publications on marine and petroleum geology not currently accessible to the international community