A History of Chinese Science and Technology

2014-10-14
A History of Chinese Science and Technology

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  • Author: Yongxiang Lu
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3662442574
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 491

A History of Chinese Science and Technology (Volumes 1, 2 & 3) presents 44 individual lectures, beginning with Ancient Chinese Science and Technology in the Process of Human Civilizations and an Overview of Chinese Science and Technology, and continuing with in-depth discussions of several issues in the History of Science and the Needham Puzzle, interspersed with topics on Astronomy, Arithmetic, Agriculture and Medicine, The Four Great Inventions, and various technological areas closely related to clothing, food, shelter and transportation. This book is the most authoritative work on the history of Chinese Science and Technology. It is the Winner of the China Book Award, the Shanghai Book Award (1st prize), and the Classical China International Publishing Project (GAPP, General Administration of Press and Publication of China) and offers an essential resource for academic researchers and non-experts alike. It originated with a series of 44 lectures presented to top Chinese leaders, which received very positive feedback. Written by top Chinese scholars in their respective fields from the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and many other respected Chinese organizations, the book is intended for scientists, researchers and postgraduate students working in the history of science, philosophy of science and technology, and related disciplines. Yongxiang Lu is a professor, former president and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and Vice Chairman of the National Congress of China.

A Brief History of Image Science and Technology in China

2021-06-26
A Brief History of Image Science and Technology in China

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  • Author: Congyao Han
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 9813369221
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 150

This book, within the vision of the study on the image history, clearly manifests the development of Chinese image science and technology of over 2000 years based on compendium, while having briefly sorted out expositions by scientists since ancient times in China, demonstrates the spiritual course, ideas of thinking and forms of life and reveales profound humane ideas, basis of sentiments and styles of the spirit featured by Chinese image culture. The historic outline of images is clear-cut along with authenticated inter-attestation for clues of images and texts. Historic facts concerning images are ecologically diversified, while historic documents about images are properly chosen, in addition to the integration between liberal arts and science and perfect combination between images and texts. Blessed with nice integration between images and texts, this book serves as reference to experts, scholars, undergraduates and postgraduates related to the study on image history, history of science and technology, study of history and news communication.

Western Influences in the History of Science and Technology in Modern China

2021-09-30
Western Influences in the History of Science and Technology in Modern China

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  • Author: Xiaoyuan Jiang
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9789811578496
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 692

This book mainly focuses on Chinese science and technology in modern and contemporary China, as well as Western technology, especially modern European science, which greatly influenced Chinese society in the Qing dynasty. It also discusses the collision and integration of the East and West leading to modern China, addressing topics such as modern Chinese physics, mathematics, publication of scientific works and modern scientific education. This book is the fifth volume in the series History of Science and Technology in China. History of Science and Technology in China is the first series with high academic values on general history of Chinese science and technology, with contributions by top-notch scholars in this field. This 5-volume work provides an encyclopedic historical panorama of Chinese scientific and technological development. It unfolds the history of Chinese science and technology through a clarified timeline from as early as the far ancient times to the very present. This work consists of five volumes: Origins of Chinese Sciences, Ancient Chinese Studies of Heaven and Earth, High Tide of Chinese Sciences, Theoretical and Technological Development, and Western Influences.

A Cultural History of Modern Science in China

2009-04-20
A Cultural History of Modern Science in China

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  • Author: Benjamin A. Elman
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • ISBN: 9780674030428
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. They welcomed the appearance in 2005 of Benjamin Elman's masterwork, On Their Own Terms. Now Elman has retold the story of the Jesuit impact on late imperial China, circa 1600-1800, and the Protestant era in early modern China from the 1840s to 1900 in a concise and accessible form ideal for the classroom. This coherent account of the emergence of modern science in China places that emergence in historical context for both general students of modern science and specialists of China.

Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s

2014-02-20
Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s

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  • Author:
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004268782
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 360

Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s looks at the transnational routes for the development of science and technology in the first pivotal decades of modern China.

The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5

1978
The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5

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  • Author: Joseph Needham
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521467735
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 388

This fifth volume abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is concerned with the staggering civil engineering feats made in early and medieval China.

Ancient China's Technology and Science

1983
Ancient China's Technology and Science

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  • Author:
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 654

"China's achievements in science and technology are among the most impressive aspects of her rich cultural past. Before the 15th century, her scientific developments often far surpassed those of the West. Shipbuilding, mathematics, alchemy, city planning, tea growing, carriage building and earthquake forecasting are just a few of the 47 areas explored here."

Science and Technology in Post-Mao China

1989
Science and Technology in Post-Mao China

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  • Author: Denis Fred Simon
  • Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
  • ISBN: 9780674794757
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 484

Along with the political and economic reforms that have characterized the post-Mao era in China there has been a potentially revolutionary change in Chinese science and technology. Here sixteen scholars examine various facets of the current science and technology scene, comparing it with the past and speculating about future trends. Two chapters dealing with science under the Nationalists and under Mao are followed by a section of extensive analysis of reforms under Deng Xiaoping, focusing on the organizational system, the use of human resources, and the emerging response to market forces. Chapters dealing with changes in medical care, agriculture, and military research and development demonstrate how these reforms have affected specific areas during the Chinese shift away from Party orthodoxy and Maoist populism toward professional expertise as the guiding principle in science and technology. Three further chapters deal with China's interface with the world at large in the process of technology transfer. Both the introductory and concluding chapters describe the tension between the Chinese Communist Party structure, with its inclinations toward strict vertical control, and the scientific and technological community's need for a free flow of information across organizational, disciplinary, and national boundaries.

History of Science and Technology in China

History of Science and Technology in China

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  • Author: Zhi Dao
  • Publisher: DeepLogic
  • ISBN:
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

The book provides highlights on the key concepts and trends of evolution in History of Science and Technology in China, as one of the series of books of “China Classified Histories”.

The Studies of Heaven and Earth in Ancient China

2021-06-12
The Studies of Heaven and Earth in Ancient China

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  • Author: Xiaoyuan Jiang
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9789811578403
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 521

Focusing on the astronomy and geosciences in ancient China, this book discusses the scientific developments and achievements in the past 5000 years, including the ancient Chinese calendar and Yellow River harnessing as well as topics such as military geography and ancient earthquake prediction. This book is the second volume in the series History of Science and Technology in China. History of Science and Technology in China is the first series with high academic values on general history of Chinese science and technology, with contributions by top-notch scholars in this field. This 5-volume work provides an encyclopedic historical panorama of Chinese scientific and technological development. It unfolds the history of Chinese science and technology through a clarified timeline from as early as the far ancient times to the very present. This work consists of five volumes: Origins of Chinese Sciences, Ancient Chinese Studies of Heaven and Earth, High Tide of Chinese Sciences, Theoretical and Technological Development, and Western Influences.