EASTM: Issue #37 online
Issue #37 of EAST ASIAN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE is now available online at www.eastm.org
Table of Contents
Note from the Editor-in-Chief
Wang Xiaotong on Right Triangles: Six Problems from ‘Continuation of Ancient Mathematics’ (Seventh Century AD) by Tina Su-lyn Lim and Donald B. Wagner
Ancient Chinese People’s Knowledge of Macrofungi during the Period from 220 to 589 by Lu Di
Reviews
Roderich Ptak (ed.), Marine Animals in Traditional China—Meerestiere im traditionellen China, reviewed by Hartmut Walravens
Annick Horiuchi, Japanese Mathematics in the Edo Period (1600-1868), reviewed by Jiři Hudeček
Paul U. Unschuld (ed.), Bioethik: Chinesische Texte zu Stammzellen-forschung, Sterbehilfe und AIDS, reviewed by Philippe Brunozzi
Dagmar Schäfer, The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-century China, reviewed by Roslyn Lee Hammers
Sigrid Schmalzer, The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth Century China, reviewed by Iwo Amelung
Donald B. Wagner, Ferrous Metallurgy, Volume 5, Part 11 of Joseph Needham’s Science and Civilization in China, reviewed by George Bryan Souza
Linda Barnes, Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing and the West to 1848, reviewed by Carla Nappi
Florence С. Hsia, Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China, reviewed by Zbigniew Wesołowski
Roderich Ptak, Birds and Beasts in Chinese Texts and Trade: Lectures Related to South China and the Overseas World, reviewed by Bin Yang
Stephen Skinner (2008). Guide to the Feng Shui Compass: A Compendium of Classical Feng Shui, reviewed by Ulrich Theobald