Breeding New Knowledge at Home:The Case of the Albanian Olive Friendship Tree in China

作     者：Sigrid Schmalzer 舒喜乐

作者机构：History DepartmentUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstAmherstMA 01003US 

出 版 物：《Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology》 (中国科学技术史（英文）)

年 卷 期：2019年第3卷第2期

页      面：195-214页

学科分类：09[农学] 0901[农学-作物学] 

基　　金：Chinese Academy of Sciences  CAS 

主　　题：transnational scientific exchange Sino-Albanian Friendship Trees agricultural science science in 1960s–1970s China 

摘      要：This article uses the case of the Sino-Albanian Friendship Trees to examine the significance and the limits of transnational scientific exchange in China during the 1960s and *** 1964,Albania gave ten thousand olive trees to China as a symbol of the eternal friendship of the Chinese and Albanian people;it was then up to Chinese agricultural scientists and farmers to find suitable means to propagate and cultivate *** author finds that,though the olive trees served as symbols of international friendship and scientific exchange,knowledge about olive trees produced and circulated in the PRC reflected science in context(that is,science within the national-level political context of 1960s–1970s China)more than knowledge in transit(that is,the transnational circulation of knowledge).The importation of olive trees from Albania ended up offering a new application for Chinese agricultural knowledge and for quintessentially“Cultural Revolution-era systems of knowledge production and circulation.