The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and STS Studies in Mainland China.

The article describes the influence of historian and scientist Thomas S. Kuhn's book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" on science, technology and society (STS) studies in mainland China. A symposium on his philosophy of science was organized by scholars from several fields in 1981, where his concepts of "paradigm," "scientific community" and "mode of scientific change," as well as his scientific epistemology and methodology, were discussed. Criticisms against his ideas are also cited.