East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (EASTM)
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (EASTM)
Contents
#34
Special Issue
Networks and Circulation of Knowledge: Encounters between
Jesuits, Manchus and Chinese in Late Imperial China
Note from the Editor-in-Chief 9
Introduction from the Guest Editor
— NICOLAS STANDAERT 12
The Jesuits in China and the Circulation of Western Books
in the Sciences (17th-18th
Centuries): The Medical and Pharmaceutical Sections in
the SJ Libraries of Peking
—NOËL GOLVERS 15
Jesuit Medicine in the Kangxi Court (1662-1722):
Imperial Networks and Patronage
—BEATRIZ PUENTE-BALLESTEROS 86
Research Note
Introduction and Development of the Screw in
Seventeenth-Century China: Theoretical Explanations and Practical Applications
by Ferdinand Verbiest
—NICOLE HALSBERGHE 163
Reviews
Wu Yi-Li, Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and
Childbirth in Late Imperial China
—reviewed by Larissa N. Heinrich 195
Livia Kohn, Chinese Healing Exercises: The Tradition of
Daoyin
—reviewed by Paul D. Buell 199
David Barker, Traditional Techniques in
Contemporary Chinese Printmaking (Printmaking
Handbook)
—reviewed by Andreas Seifert 202
Hartmut Walravens (ed.), A Japanese Herbal in the
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
—reviewed by Teruyuki Kubo 205
Carla Nappi, The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History
and Its Transformations in Early Modern China
—reviewed by Timothy H. Barrett 210
Asaf Goldschmidt, The Evolution of Chinese
Medicine: Song Dynasty, 960-1200
—reviewed by Valerie Hansen 219
Kapil Raj, Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the
Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900
—reviewed by Toby E. Huff 222
Roger Hart, The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra
—reviewed by Eberhard Knobloch 225
Chao Yüan-ling, Medicine and Society in Late Imperial
China: A Study of Physicians in Suzhou,
1600-1850
—reviewed by Xiaoping Fang 228
Michael Keevak, Becoming Yellow: A Short History of
Racial Thinking
—reviewed by Walter Demel 231
Best wishes,
Ailika Schinköthe
Managing and Production Editor, EASTM