By adopting a comprehensive text analysis of the historical documentations, the paper follows a study of Hou-Kun Chow in the following aspects: (1) it schematically sorts out the track of Hou-Kun Chow’s lifetime and finds that there are two motivations for Chow to study western knowledge of science and technology, one for the rejuvenation of China, and the other for his own interest and career, especially in the later years studying abroad. (2) it focuses on an analysis of a piece of treatise containing Chow’s elaboration about his typewriter. This treatise also discusses three kinds of failure to invent a typewriter, among which Chow held in contempt to the attempt of tearing down Chinese characters. In contrast, Chow’s invention has a significant importance on protecting Chinese characters and developing Chinese language. However, Chow preferred himself to be memorized as one of the Chinese typewriter’s independent inventors rather than “The Father of Chinese Typewriter”. (3) the result of the analysis shows that the basis of Chow’s technological thoughts lies in the Chinese traditional ideology of Confucianism and Buddhism implicated in Chinese language and character. Based on it, this paper generalizes his theoretical and empirical opinions on technical invention and believes that they are quite enlightening even today, which are embodied in either the beginning, proceeding or post period of a technological study.

This paper reviewed some literature mainly on evaluation indicators for science popularization capacity, indicators weighting, evaluation model and so on by searching related keywords or topics, which provides a reference for designing national science popularization capacity evaluation indicators and its effect evaluation for the purpose of forming the national science popularization capacity monitoring and evaluation system. The four findings are as following: (i) the current studies on science popularization capacity still focus on regional level, and studies based on national level are still lacking; (ii) evaluation indicator system usually depends on the survey data from China Science Popularization Statistics but excludes some qualitative indicators such as science popularization organization construction and science popularization policy; (iii) the current papers generally use the cross section data but do not take into account the variable of time; (iv) there are short of quantitative researches analyzing the correlation between national science popularization capacity and civic scientific literacy and the effect of science popularization capacity factors on civic scientific literacy.

Museums are increasingly tied to the visitors. Currently, there is an increasing recognition that museums are existing and available principally for visitors, thus the significance of studies on visitors for the development of museums is self-evident. To know and study visitors has become a necessary basis of for that kind of work, and a standard for assessing high-quality exhibition. The paper conducts case studies on visitors of An Ode to Wuxing exhibition in Huzhou Museum from behaviors, knowledge acquirement and emotion measurement by starting from theories of definition evolution of studies on museum visitors and categorizing and classification of visitors, combined with interactive experience and “visitor-oriented assessment level” mode of research method. Meanwhile, on the basis of visitor study theories, we shall pay more attention to local, community and personal experience during the visitor study.

As the scale and quantity of extracurricular scientific activities of senior high school students continue to expand, it is necessary to investigate the scientific attitude of the participating students. The “Scientific Attitude Inventory (SAI II) ”, which was revised by Moore and Foy in 1997, was employed in our research. We investigated 63 high school students with scientific attitudes, who participated in the extracurricular activities of Innovative Talents Training Program of Basic Education in Beijing. This survey finds that the students, who take the initiative to participate in extracurricular activities, are more active in science. The difference between boys and girls is obvious in terms of emotional attitude towards science. In addition, 57.1% of the students surveyed have difficulty in understanding the limits of science. Most of the students lack a sufficient understanding of the value orientation of scientific theory.

Science and technology museum (STM) is virtually an embodiment of human wisdom on science, and also an enlightenment area where science is translated into popular culture. Its leading goal is to seek truth for the universe, pursue happiness for the general public, explore the unknown, and create a better future for the mankind. STM serves as a palace for science where people with different ages, life experiences and backgrounds could acquire new knowledge, touch upon aspirations, and bask in a pleasure of exploring the world. STM chooses a number of principal themes relating to exhibit and display from a vast sea of knowledge, those themes shall be enshrined in the core and pivotal position in the knowledge system for human beings. Efforts shall be made to attract multi-layered interactions from visitors when it alludes to STM exhibits and displays, those are the sensory, logic, emotional and thinking interactions. To build STM is for a re-fabricating and innovating process whereby science is endowed with humanistic significance and the public can virtually feel the essence of science during their short stay there. STM is a place where people could find aspirations and enlightenment from a perspective of intellectual history. To build STM system penetrating the whole country could help science popularization work in China be extensively and profoundly reachable both in time and in space. Science is both plain and profound, it is also true for STM. In general terms, people are fond of this kind of STM which is of simplicity, profoundness, as well as geniality.

The paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of the birth and development of contemporary Chinese science fairy tales based on the historical changes of social context, and divides its writing during the 100 years into five major periods, namely 1. initial stage (1920—1949); 2. emerging stage (1949—1966); 3. suppression stage (slack stage) (1966—1976); 4. booming stage (1976—1999); 5. rejuvenating stage (2000—). It also offers a thorough analysis of the achievements, features and experiences of each stage, and holds great confidence and expectation of its new development in the rejuvenating stage.

Scientific literacy constitutes an important part which contributes to the enhancement of scientific literacy of the citizens, and children’s science books are an important supplementary materials for science education regarding enhancing scientific literacy of children. However, children’s science books have not got the attention parents and teachers. Even they are aware of the importance of books, they find it difficult to select the fine books for their children. From that sense, in order to discuss the importance of children’s books, and guide parents and teachers to buy the fine books, the children’s science books in the market are clearly classified, and efforts are made to dig its education value by using big-data technology. In a nutshell, exploring the science education in science books is particularly relevant.

Science education serves as a main way of cultivating creative talents, improving citizen’s scientific literacy and improving the core competitiveness of the country. In this paper, the elementary and secondary mathematics and science education indicators in the 11 issues of “science and engineering indicators (1996—2016) ” were analyzed. The research focuses, construction and the data sources of the elementary and secondary mathematics and science education indicators were studied. This inspires us to pay more attention to students’ mathematics and science curriculum, science teachers and teaching techniques and students’ achievement. Some constructive proposals are put forward in the paper: it is necessary to establish a long-term, sustainable and nationwide monitoring system for the quality of math and science education in elementary and secondary schools in China; regulations of periodic reporting on the quality of math and science education in elementary and secondary schools in China need to be established as well.

With the development of science and technology, human beings’ reflection of the ultimate fate of the universe becomes even more profound, and science fiction carries an important embodiment of this thinking. In the paper, the authors try to explore the differences of concept of universe between the science fiction of The Three-Body Problem and Ender’s Game, they were both awarded as the Science Fiction Achievement Awards.