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The Technological Phantom in the Ethical World: Centering on the “Agricultural Technician” in History of Entrepreneurship

  

  • Online:2018-07-15 Published:2018-07-15

Abstract:

 Han Peisheng, an agricultural technician in Liu Qing’s novel History of Entrepreneurship, vividly reflects the writer’s reflection on the relationship between “agricultural technology” and “cooperative movement”. Different from the novels of the same theme in the 1950s, Liu’s History of Entrepreneurship depicts “cooperative movement” from the perspective of ethical dimension while activating the political context of “technological discourse”. Viewed from this perspective, the narration of Han Peisheng’s promotion of agricultural technology presents multiple dimensions and forms interconnected four aspects of scientific, social, political and ethical practice. Liu Qing depicts the deep tensions of “ethics” and “technology” in the “cooperative movement”, as well as deep and profound reflections on the modernization imagination in the “statevillage” dualistic structure.
Key words: History of Entrepreneurship; Liu Qing; agricultural technology;cooperative