Book Reviews: 1. Zhang Li 張藜, 新中國與新科學:高分子科學在現代中國的建立[New Science for a New China: The Institutionalization of Polymer Science in Modern China](Jinan: Shandong jiaoyu chubanshe, 2005) 2. Cong Cao, China's Scientific Elite(London: Routledge Curzon, 2004)