EASTM: New Special Issue published #38



The special issue #38 "Knowledge Spheres: Borderlines and Intersections of Expertise and Knowing in China, Song to Qing" of the Journal of EAST ASIAN SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE is published and available online at www.eastm.org
Table of Contents
Introduction from the Guest Editors, by Dagmar Schäfer and Sun Xiaochun
The Northern Song State’s Financial Support for Astronomy, by Sun Xiaochun and Han Yi
Text and Teacher in the Transmission of Alchemical Knowledge: Wu Wu and His Works, by Juan He
Healing and Ritual Imagination in Chinese Medicine: The Multiple Interpretations of Zhuyou, by Philip Cho
Reviews
Emily Byrne Curtis (ed.), Pure Brightness Shines Everywhere: The Glass of China, reviewed by Li Hui
Joachim Kurtz, The Discovery of Chinese Logic, reviewed by Vivienne Alleton
Thomas O. Höllmann, Schlafender Lotos, trunkenes Huhn: Kulturgeschichte der chinesischen Küche, reviewed by Jeanette Werning
Marta E. Hanson, Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China, reviewed by Yi-li Wu
Noël Golvers, Libraries of Western Learning for China: Circulation of Western Books Between Europe and China in the Jesuit Mission (c. 1650–c. 1750), vol. 1, Logistics of Book Acquisition and Circulation, reviewed R. Po-Chia Hsia
Ann Heirman and Mathieu Torck, A Pure Mind in a Clean Body: Bodily Care in the Buddhist Monasteries of Ancient India and China, reviewed by Catherine Despeux
To be published in issue 39
The Censor’s Stele: Religion, Salt-Production and Labour in the Temple of the God of the Salt Lake in Southern Shanxi Province, by Andreas Janousch
Walls and Gates, Windows and Mirrors: Urban Defences, Cultural Memory, and Security Theatre in Song Kaifeng, by Ari Daniel Levine