Historical Perspectives On East Asian Science, Technology And Medicine

Historical Perspectives On East Asian Science, Technology And Medicine
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Publisher : World Scientific
Total Pages : 609
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ISBN-10 : 9789814488648
ISBN-13 : 981448864X
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Book Synopsis Historical Perspectives On East Asian Science, Technology And Medicine by : Alan Kam Leung Chan

Download or read book Historical Perspectives On East Asian Science, Technology And Medicine written by Alan Kam Leung Chan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002-07-24 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine brings together over fifty papers by leading contemporary historians from more than a dozen nations. It is the third in a series of books growing out of the tri-annual International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, the largest and most prestigious gathering of scholars in the field. The current volume broadens the field's traditional focus on China to include path-breaking work on Vietnam, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and even the transmission of Asian science and technology to Europe and the United States. Topics covered include: traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, and Filipino medicines; Chinese astronomy; Japanese earthquakes; science and technology policy; architecture; the digital revolution; and much else.


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