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Due to my limited reading, I haven't come across many books with similar topics as mine. The discussion of the following two books is based on my experience of reading excerpts of them. Impure Cultures: University Biology and the World of Commerce by Daniel Lee Kleinman This book combines ethnographic laboratory study and political economic analysis of university R & D. My book differs from this book as I add a focus on the students and assess the influences of higher education to their personal development. Laboratory Life By Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar My study focuses more on the laboratories in Chinese universities or the laboratories led by Chinese faculty in American universities. I will compare this study with the laboratory studies done by other STS scholars. While Latour and Woolgar's laboratory study focus more on the making of scientific facts, my study pays more attention to the students experiences of laboratory life in terms of the content of work and the relation with the faculty.