Note from the Editor

ARTICLES

The Treatment of Women in a Second-Century Medical Casebook - LISA RAPHALS

On the Dates of Yang Shang-shan and the Huang-ti nei ching tai su - NATHAN SIVIN

Medical Practice in the Ming Dynasty—A Practitioner's View: Evidence from Wang Ji's Shishan yi'an - JOANNA GRANT

Images of Printing in Seventh Century Chinese Religious Literature - T. H. BARRETT

The I Ching and the Adaptation of Western Science in Tokugawa Japan - WAI-MING NG

REVIEWS

Edgar A. Porter, The People's Doctor: George Hatem and China's Revolution - reviewed by Carol Benedict

G. E. R. Lloyd, Adversaries and Authorities: Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science - reviewed by Michael Nylan

Joseph Needham and Robin D. S. Yates, with Krzysztof Gawlikowski, Edward McEwen, and Wang Ling, Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 6: Military Technology: Missiles and Sieges - reviewed by S. R. Gilbert

Alexeï Volkov (ed.), Sous les nombres, le monde. Matériaux pour l'histoire culturelle du nombre en Chine ancienne. Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident, no. 16 -  reviewed by Catherine Jami

Don Bates (ed.), Knowledge and the Scholarly Medicine - reviewed by Eugenia Lean

William J. Haas, China Voyager: Gist Gee's Life in Science - reviewed by Meng Yue

Christian Daniels and Nicholas K. Menzies, Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 3: Agro-Industries and Forestry - reviewed by Randall A. Dodgen

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Ninth International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, 23-27 August 1999

Note from the Editor

ARTICLES

Scientific Dispute in the Imperial Court: The 1664 Calendar Case - PINGYI CHU 

The Great Desideratum: Chinese Chemical Nomenclature and the Transmission of Western Chemical Concepts - DAVID WRIGHT

Social Science and Social Control: Empirical Scientific Theories and Chinese Uses - XIAOQING C. LIN

Joseph Needham: A Publication History - GREGORY BLUE

REVIEWS

H. Lyman Miller, Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China: The Politics of Knowledge -  reviewed by Richard Baum

Viviane Alleton and Alexei Volkov (eds.), Notions et perceptions du changement en Chine. Textes présentés au IXe congrès de l’Association Européenne d’Etudes Chinoises - reviewed by Francesca Bray

Mission and Inculturation, Bulletin de l'Institut Historique Belge de Rome -  reviewed by Karine Chemla

Frank Dikötter, Sex, Culture and Modernity in China: Medical Science and the Construction of Sexual Identities in the Early Republican Period -  reviewed by Charlotte Furth

Annick Horiuchi, Les mathématiques japonaises à l’époque d’Edo (1600-1868): Une étude des travaux de Seki Takakazu (?–1708) et de Takebe Katahiro (1664–1739) - reviewed by Herman Ooms

Michael Nylan, The Canon of Supreme Mystery. By Yang Hsiung. A Translation with Commentary of the T’ai hsüan ching - reviewed by Haun Saussy

A FESTSCHRIFT FOR NATHAN SIVIN, Part II

Editor's introduction

ARTICLES

Finite and Infinite in Greece and China - GEOFFREY LLOYD

The Development of Hindu-Arabic and Traditional Chinese Arithmetic - LAM LAY YONG

The Use of the Twenty-eight Xiu as a Day-Count in Early China - MARC KALINOWSKI

The Evolution and Decline of the Ancient Chinese Practice of Watching for the Ethers - HUANG YI-LONG and CHANG CHIH-CH'ENG

"Medicine and the Changes are One": An Essay in Divination Healing with Commentary - JUDITH FARQUHAR

The Published Writings of Nathan Sivin: An Annotated Bibliography

REVIEWS

Hashimoto Keizo, Catherine Jami, and Lowell Skar (eds.), East Asian Science: Tradition and Beyond - reviewed by

Yuan-ling Chao

Note from the Editor

Foreword - JOSEPH NEEDHAM

Working with Nathan Sivin: Four Decades - NAKAYAMA SHIGERU

A FESTSCHRIFT FOR NATHAN SIVIN, Part I

Guest Editor: Francesca Bray

Technology and Culture in Chinese History: An Introduction - FRANCESCA BRAY

A Measure of Man in Early China: In Search of the Neolithic Inch - DAVID N. KEIGHTLEY

The Disappearance of Silk Weaves with Weft Effects in Early China - ANGELA SHENG

Silk Weaving in Ancient China: From Geometric Figures to Patterns of Pictorial Likeness - DIETER KUHN

Textile Production and Gender Roles in China, 1000-1700 - FRANCESCA BRAY

The Traditional Chinese Iron Industry and its Modern Fate - DONALD B. WAGNER 

News from the Field

An Appreciation of Joseph Needham - FRANCESCA BRAY

Announcement: The Eighth International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia

Publication Announcement: Le Juste Nom. Extrême Orient, Extrême-Occident, 15 - prepared by Karine Chemla and François Martin

Note from the Editor

ARTICLES

A Contextual and Taxonomic Study of the "Divine Marvels" and "Strange Occurrences" in the Mengxi bitan - DAIWIE FU

A Medical Line of Many Masters: A Prosopographical Study of Liu Wansu and His Disciples from the Jin to the Early Ming - WU YIYI

Space and Time in Chinese Texts of Astronomy and of Mathematical Astronomy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - JEAN-CLAUDE MARTZLOFF

Space and Time: Science and Religion in the Encounter Between China and Europe - JAQUES GERNET

REVIEWS

Donald Blackmore Wagner, Iron and Steel in Ancient China - reviewed by Lothar von Falkenhausen

Publication announcement: Karine Chemla, ed., Regards Obliques sur L'Argumentation en Chine

ARTICLES

Court Divination and Christianity in the K'ang-hsi Era - HUANG YI-LONG

Chinese versus Western Medicine: A History of their Relations in the Twentieth Century - ZHAO HONGJUN

Anatometrics in Ancient China - YAMADA KEIJI

Grading Chinese Science Studies: A Report on the Kyoto Symposium on Chinese Science - NAKAYAMA SHIGERU

Over the Borders: Technical History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences - NATHAN SIVIN

REVIEWS

Peter Wieg and Johannes Freyer, Chinesische Fluß-Dschunken - reviewed by Hans Reichenbach

Reference Books for the History of Medicine by Ma Chi-hsing and Others - reviewed by Nathan Sivin

Reference Books for the History of Astronomy by Chuang Wei feng and Others - reviewed by Nathan Sivin

Robert Temple, The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention - reviewed by Peter J. Golas

ARTICLES

Essence and Utility: The Classification of Crop Plants in China - FRANCESCA BRAY

Fellowships for Research on Chinese Science

The Basic Forms of Ancient Chinese Sunspot Records - XU ZHENTAO

A Cornucopia of Reference Works for the History of Chinese Medicine - NATHAN SIVIN

Never the Twain Shall Meet: European Land Survey Techniques in Tokugawa Japan - PHILIP C. BROWN

REVIEWS

Cheng-Yih Chen (ed.), Science and Technology in Chinese Civilization - reviewed by Nathan Sivin

Hans Lothar Scheuring, Die Drachenfluß-Werft von Nanking―Das "Lung-Chiang ch'uan ch'an chih," eine Ming-zeitliche Quelle zur Geschichte des chinesischen Schiffbaus - reviewed by Herman Reichenbach

Peter Wieg, Chinesische See-Dschunken - reviewed by Herman Reichenbach

ARTICLES

Recent Advances in Understanding the Mystery of Ancient Chinese "Magic Mirrors." A Brief Summary of Chinese Analytical and Experimental Studies - JULIA K. MURRAY and SUZANNE E. CAHILL

Not Quite Gentlemen? Doctors in Sung and Yuan - ROBERT P. HYMES

Journal of the Japan Society of Medical History

ARTICLES

Craft and Ritual in Traditional Chinese Carpentry - KLAAS RUITENBEEK

Using the Rockefeller Archives for Research on Modern Chinese Natural Science - LAURENCE A. SCHNEIDER

A Supplementary Bibliography of Traditional Chinese Science: Introductory Books and Articles in Western Languages - NATHAN SIVIN

Blood, Body and Gender: Medical Images of the Female Condition in China 1600-1850 - CHARLOTTE FURTH

REVIEW

Sophie Clément, Pierre Clément, Shin Yong Hak, in collaboration with others, Architecture du paysage en Asie orientale,

Pierre Clément, in collaboration with E. Pechenart, Sophie Clément, Y. H. Shin, Les Capitales chinoises, leur modele et leur site - reviewed by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt

International Meetings - H. T. Huang

Proposal for a Combined Effort on the History of Disease and Epidemics in China

ARTICLES

Dragons and Toads: The Chinese Seismoscope of A.D. 132 - ANDRÉ WEGENER SLEESWYK and NATHAN SIVIN

The Grand Aurora - EDWARD H. SCHAFER

A Directory of Scholars in East Asia Engaged in Research on Traditional Chinese Science - NATHAN SIVIN and NAKAYAMA SHIGERU

Chinese Researches in the History of Science and Technology, 1982 - XI ZEZONG

International Meetings

REVIEWS

Notices of books

Hsia Hsiang-jung, Li Chung-chün, and Wang Ken-yuan, Chung-kuo ku-tai k'uang-yeh k'ai-fa shih 中国古代矿业开发史

(A history of the mining industries in early China) - reviewed by Andrew Jones

ARTICLES

An Eighth Century Chinese Table of Tangents - CHRISTOPHER CULLEN

Trends in Agricultural History in the People's Republic of China - FRANCESCA BRAY

Why the Scientific Revolution Did Not Take Place in China―or Didn't It? - NATHAN SIVIN

REVIEWS

Ho Peng Yoke, Modern Scholarship on the History of Chinese Astronomy - reviewed by Thatcher E. Deane

Nathan Sivin on two new Chinese journals:

Cambridge Texts in the History of Chinese Science on Microfiche - Tsuen-hsuin Tsien

ARTICLES

Christian and Chinese Visions of the World in the Seventeenth Century - JACQUES GERNET

Bibliography of Recent Archeological Discoveries Bearing on the History of Science and Technology - HSIA NAI

Archeological Sources for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine: Some Supplementary References - DONALD B. WAGNER

Notes on Studies in the History of Science in the People's Republic of China - JOHN S. MAJOR

New Studies on Chinese Mathematics: A Review Essay - ULRICH LIBBRECHT

REVIEWS

Chu K'o-chen, Chu K'o-chen wen chi 竺可楨文集 - reviewed by Nathan Sivin

David H. Clark and F. Richard Stephenson, The Historical Supernova - reviewed by Nathan Sivin

ARTICLES

Patterns of the Sky and Earth: A Chinese Science of Applied Cosmology - STEVEN J. BENNETT

The Transcendent Vitamin: Efflorescence of Lang-kan - EDWARD H. SCHAFER

Current Research on the History of Science in the People's Republic of China - NATHAN SIVIN

Liu Hui and Tsu Keng-chih on the Volume of a Sphere - DONALD B. WAGNER

Introduction

ARTICLES

Reconstruction of the South-Pointing Chariots of the Northern Sung Dynasty: Escapement and Differential Gearing in 11th Century China - ANDRÉ WEGENER SLEESWYK

Diseases and Doctors, Drugs and Cures: A Very Preliminary List of Passages of Medical Interest in a Number of Traditional Chinese Novels and Related Plays - WILT IDEMA

News of Colleagues

Notices of Books