Note from the Editor-in-Chief

ARTICLES 

Needham’s Grand Question Revisited: On the Meaning and Justification of Causal Claims in the History of Chinese Science — David De Saeger and Erik Weber 

The Production of Well Salt by Ethnic Minorities in Pre-modern Yunnan: The “Illustrations on the Salt Production Methods of Yunnan” — Zhu Xia 朱 霞, transl. by Cao Jin, Ailika Schinköthe, Hans Ulrich Vogel et al.  

RESEARCH NOTE

Translating 宿 *sukh/xiu and 舍 *lhah/she—‘lunar lodges’, or just plain ‘lodges’? — Christopher Cullen 

REVIEW ARTICLE

Jean-Claude Martzloff, Le calendrier chinois: Structure et calculs (104 av. J.-C.-1644). Indétermination céleste et réforme permanente. La construction chinoise officielle du temps quotidien discret à partir d’un temps mathématique caché, linéaire et continu — reviewed by Joseph W. Dauben

REVIEWS

Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, vol. 7: The Social Background, part 2: General Conclusions and Reflections — reviewed by Dagmar Schäfer 

Paul U. Unschuld, Was ist Medizin? Westliche und östliche Wege der Heilkunst and

Paul U. Unschuld, What is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing — reviewed by Luis Montiel 

Yan Hong-Sen, Marco Ceccarelli (eds.), International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms: Proceedings of HMM 2008 — reviewed by Alexander Jost                                                                     

Hiromi Mizuno, Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan — reviewed by David G. Wittner            
 

ANNOUNCEMENT

Soon-Young Kim Studentship in the History of East Asian Science and Technology at the Needham Resesearch Institute, Cambridge, UK

Note from the Editor-in-Chief

Online Availability of EASTM: A Note on the Future

ARTICLES

The Rong Cheng shi 容成氏 Version of the 'Nine Proivinces': Some Parallels with Transmitted Texts — VERA DOROFEEVA-LICHTMANN

A Korean Reading of Newtonian Mechanics in the Nineteenth Century —JUN YONG HOON

"A Flock of Ghosts Bursting Forth and Scattering": Healing Narratives in a Sixth-Century Chinese Buddhist Hagiography — C. PIERCE SALGUERO

REVIEWS

Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, Joseph W. Dauben, Menso Folkerts and Benno van Dalen (eds.), From China to Paris: 2000 Years Transmission of Mathematical Ideas — reviewed by Karin Reich

Luciana Galliano (ed.), Power, Beauty and Meaning: Eight Studies on Chinese Music — reviewed by Barbara Mittler

Hartmut Walravens (ed.), David Crockett Graham (1884-1961) as Zoological Collector and Anthropologist in China —reviewed by Mareile Flitsch

Alan K. L. Chan, Gregory K. Clancey, and Hui-Chieh Loy (eds.), Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine — reviewed by Morris Low

G. E. R. Lloyd, The Delusions of Invulnerability: Wisdom and Morality in Ancient Greece, China and Today — reviewed by Mark Elvin

ANNOUNCEMENT

Research Opportunities at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, UK

Special Issue: Plenary Lectures of of the 12th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia,
July 14-18, 2008, Baltimore

Note from the Editor-in-Chief                      

ARTICLES

When Health was Freed from Fate: Some Thoughts on the Liberating Potential of Early Chinese Medicine — PAUL U. UNSCHULD  

How to Join the Scientific Mainstream: East Asian Scientists and Nobel Prize — JAMES R: BARTHOLOMEW     

Art, Anatomy and Eroticism: The Human Body in Japanese Illustrated Books of the Edo Period, 1615-1868 — ELLIS TINIOS 

A Philosophy of Machines and Mechanics in Seventeenth-Century China: Wang Zheng's Characterization and Justification of the Study of Machines and Mechanics in the Qiqi tushuo — KIM YUNG SIK       

REVIEWS

Gregory Clancey, Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930 — reviewed by Alex Bates                 

Maeyama Yasukatsu, Astronomy in Orient and Occident — reviewed by Changbom Park        

Yuehtsen Juliette Chung, Struggle for National Survival: Eugenics in Sino-Japanese Contexts, 1896-1945 — reviewed by Otsubo Sumiko         

Cao Cong, China’s Scientific Elite — reviewed by Ulrich Theobald        

Mathieu Torck, Avoiding the Dire Straits: An Inquiry into Food Provisions and Scurvy in the Maritime and Military History of China and Wider East Asia — reviewed by Paul D. Buell 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The 13th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (13th ICHSEA)         

A Notice from the Board of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine         

Call for Nominations for Zhu Kezhen Awards        

Needham Research Institute, Soon-Young Kim Studentship in the History of East Asian Science and Technology            

Special Issue: Society and Illness in Early Modern Japan (continued)

Note from the Editor

ARTICLES

Warding off Calamity in Japan: A Comparison of the 1855 Catfish Prints and the 1862 Measles Prints - GREGORY SMITS

The Body Economic: Japan's Cholera Epidemic of 1858 in Popular Discourse - BETTINA GRAMLICH-OKA

Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Demographic Change in Early Modern Japan - WILLIAM D. JOHNSTON

RESEARCH NOTE

Incommensurability Between Western Geometrical and Chinese Numericoalgebraic Astronomy - Takebe Katahiro's Interpretation of Planetary Limit Degrees - NAKAYAMA SHIGERU

REVIEWS

Kim Taylor, Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-63: A Medicine of Revolution - reviewed by Angelika C. Messner

Volker Scheid, Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis - reviewed by Nathan Sivin

Deepak Kumar, Science and the Raj: A Study of British India - reviewed by Dhruv Raina

G. E. R. Lloyd, The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China - reviewed by Lisa Raphals

Fan Fa-ti, British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter - reviewed by Tsukahara Togo

Special Issue: Society and Illness in Early Modern Japan

Note from the Editor

Note from the Guest Editor - BETTINA GRAMLICH-OKA

ARTICLES

Introduction - WILLIAM WAYNE FARRIS

Rhythms of Medicine and Community in Late Sixteenth Century Japan: Yamashina Tokitsune (1543-1611) and his Patients - ANDREW EDMUND GOBLE

Nanayama Jundō at Work: A Village Doctor and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Japan - SUSAN L. BURNS

REVIEWS

Cecilia Braghin (ed.), Chinese Glass: Archaeological Studies on the Uses and Social Context of Glass Artefacts from the Warring States to the Northern Song Period - reviewed by Li Hui

De la difficulté de juger: Quelques ressources du mode critique en Chine et au Viêt Nam (On the Difficulty of Judgment: Some Resources of Criticism in China and Vietnam), in the journal Extrême Orient, Extrême Occident: Papers on Comparative Research - reviewed by Viatcheslav Vetrov

Paul U. Unschuld, Chinese Life Science: Introductory Readings in Classical Chinese Medicine - reviewed by Florence Bretelle-Establet

Henry S. Rowen, Marguerite Gong Hancock, and William F. Miller (eds.), Making IT: The Rise of Asia in High Tech - reviewed by Richard P. Suttmeier

Note from the Editor

Obituary Prof. Xi Zezong (1927-2008) - GAO JIE

ARTICLES

Narrating a History for China's Medical Past: Christianity, Natural Philosophy and History in Wang Honghan's Gujin yishi 古今醫史 (History of Medicine Past and Present) - CHU PINGYI

Reforming Astronomy and Compiling Imperial Science in the Post-Kangxi Era: The Social Dimension of the Yuzhi lixiang kaocheng houbian 御製暦象考成後編  - SHI YUNLI

REVIEWS

H. T. Huang, Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 1, Part 5, Fermentations and Food Science - reviewed by Ute Engelhardt

Ofra Anson and Sun Shifang, Health Care in Rural China: Lessons from HeBei Province - reviewed by Sascha Klotzbücher

Ole Döring and Chen Renbiao (eds.), Advances in Chinese Medical Ethics: Chinese and International Perspectives - reviewed by Georg Marckmann

Ho Peng Yoke, Reminiscence of a Roving Scholar: Science, Humanities and Joseph Needham - reviewed by Nakayama Shigeru

Needham, Joseph, with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-djen, Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. VI, Part 6, Medicine - reviewed by Frédéric Obringer

Special Issue: Western Learning in Late Ming and Early Qing China

Note from the Editor   

Introduction from the Guest Editor - CATHERINE JAMI    

ARTICLES

Four Elements as Ti and Five Phases as Yong: The Historical Development from Shao Yong's Huangji jingshi to Matteo Riccis Qiankun tiyi - HSU KUANG-TAI 

Nikolaus Smogulecki and Xue Fengzuo's True Principles of the Pacing of the Heavens: Its Production, Publication, and Reception - SHI YUNLI

Eclipses and the Victory of European Astronomy in China - LÜ LINGFENG

Western Learning and Imperial Scholarship: The Kangxi Emperor's Study - CATHERINE JAMI

REVIEWS

Christine Moll-Murata, Song Jianze and Hans Ulrich Vogel (eds.), Chinese Handicraft Regulations of the Qing Dynasty - reviewed by Peter J. Golas

Pierre Le Roux, Alexandre Yersin, un passe-muraille (1863-1943). Vainqueur de la peste et de la diphtérie, explorateur des hauts plateaux d'Indochine - reviewed by Annick Guénel

Note from the Editor  

ARTICLES

Global Science and Comparative History: Jesuits, Science, and Philology in China and Europe, 1550-1850 - BENJAMIN ELMAN 

Latin Words, Vernacular Worlds: Language, Nature, and the 'Indigenous' in Early Modern Europe - ALIX COOPER 

Science, Myth and Eastern Souls: J. S. C. Schweigger and the Society for the Spread of Natural Knowledge and Higher Truth - DENISE PHILLIPS 

Old Scripts, New Actors: European Encounters with Chinese Writing, 1500-1700 - BRUCE RUSK 

Global or Local? Exploring Connections between Chinese and European Geographical Knowledge During the Early Modern Period - LAURA HOSTETLER 

REVIEWS

Alain Arrault and Catherine Jami (eds.), Science and Technology  in East Asia. Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science -  reviewed by Iwo Amelung

Michel Strickmann, Chinese Magical Medicine, ed. Bernard Faure - reviewed by Nathan Sivin 

Paul Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng, Hanyu keben - richang shenghuo yu yiliao 汉语课本 - 日常生活与医疗 (Chinesisch-Sprachkurs für Medizin und Alltag) - reviewed by Marc D. Winter and Urs P. Pretôt

Paul D. Buell and Eugene N. Anderson; with an appendix by Charles Perry, A Soup for the Qan: Chinese Dietary Medicine of the Mongol Era as seen in Hu Szu-huis Yin-shan cheng-yao - reviewed by Mathieu Torck

Science and Civilisation in China Series: Forthcoming Books - Christopher Cullen

The 12th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia

A Notice from the Board of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 

Call for Submissions: Zhu Kezhen Awards 竺可桢奖征文启示

Note from the Editor

ARTICLES

Reflections on the Current State and Significance of the History of East Asian Technology - DIETER KUHN 

The Doctor's Body: Embodiment and Multipilicity of Chinese Medical Knowledge - MU PENG

Special Issue
in Honor of Prof. Ho Peng Yoke's Eightieth Birthday (continued)

Seers and Jesters: Predicting the Future and Punning by Graph Analysis - BERNHARD FÜHRER

Astral Divination in the Context of Mesopotamian Divination, Medicine, Religion, Magic, Society, and Scholarship - DAVID BROWN

REVIEW ARTICLE

A Confucian Asian Ethos? Essentials of the Culture of East Asian Bioethics - OLE DÖRING 

Special Issue in Honor of Prof. Ho Peng Yoke's Eightieth Birthday

Note from the Editor

Introduction from the Guest Editor - CHRISTOPHER CULLEN

ARTICLES

Ho Peng Yoke: A Personal Introduction - NATHAN SIVIN 

The History of Military Divination in China - ROBIN D. S. YATES

Medicine and Divination in India - MICHIO YANO

Medicine and Astrology: Their Encounter on a Cross-cultural Occasion - CHANG CHE-CHIA

Divination and Medicine in China and Greece: A Comparative Perspective on the Baoshan Illness Divinations - LISA RAPHALS

REVIEWS

Claudia von Collani (ed.), Joachim Bouvet S. J. Journal des voyages - reviewed by Catherine Jami

Luís Saraiva (ed.), History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia II. Scientific Practices and the Portuguese Expansion in Asia, 1498-1759 - reviewed by Andrea Bréard

David Y. H. Wu and Tan Chee-beng (eds.), Changing Chinese Foodways in Asia - reviewed by Christine M. Du Bois

Ole Döring (ed.), Chinese Scientists and Responsibility: Ethical Issues of Human Genetics in Chinese and International Contexts - reviewed by Silke Schicktanz

Roel Sterckx, The Animal and the Daemon in Early China - reviewed by Vincent Ziswiler

Noël Golvers, Ferdinand Verbiest, S. J. (1623-1688) and the Chinese Heaven: The Composition of the Astronomical Corpus, its Diffusion and Reception in the European Republic of Letters - reviewed by Keizo Hashimoto

Note from the Editor

ARTICLES

A Multi-dimensional Approach to Research on Ancient Science - NATHAN SIVIN

Animal Classification in Ancient China - ROEL STERCKX

Maritime Travel and the Question of Provisions and Scurvy in a Chinese Context - MATHIEU TORCK

Restructuring the Field of Chinese Medicine: A Study of the Menghe and Ding Scholarly Currents, 1600-2000 (Part 2) - VOLKER SCHEID 

REVIEWS

Yung Sik Kim, The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi (1130-1200) - reviewed by Michael Lackner

Ho Peng Yoke, Chinese Mathematical Astrology: Reaching out to the Stars - reviewed by Licia Di Giacinto

Ping-Chung Leung, Charlie Changli Xue, and Yung-Chi Cheng (eds.), A Comprehensive Guide to Chinese Medicine - reviewed by Volker Scheid

Laurence Schneider, Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China - reviewed by Zuoyue Wang

Note from the Editor

ARTICLES

Restructuring the Field of Chinese Medicine: A Study of the Menghe and Ding Scholarly Currents, 1600-2000 (Part 1) - VOLKER SCHEID

The Establishment of Modern Health Demonstration Zones and the Regulation of Life and Death in Early Republican Beijing - YANG NIANQUN, transl. by LARISSA HEINRICH

The "Why Not" Question of Chinese Science: The Scientific Revolution and Traditional Chinese Science - YUNG SIK KIM

REVIEWS

Chen Meidong 陳美东, Gu li xin tan 古历新探 (New Investigations of Ancient Astronomy) and

Chen Meidong 陳美东, Zhongguo kexue jishu shi. Tianwenxue juan 中国科学技术史。天文学卷 (History of Chinese Science and Technology. Astronomy) - reviewed by Nathan Sivin

Michael Lackner, Iwo Amelung, and Joachim Kurtz (eds.), New Terms for New Ideas: Western Knowledge and Lexical Change in Late Imperial China  - reviewed by Benjamin Elman

Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin, The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece  - reviewed by Wang Aihe

The 11th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia

Special Issue: Forays into the Field of Vietnamese Military Technology

Note from the Editor

Introduction from the Guest Editor

ARTICLES

Thųc Phán, Cao Tông, and the Transfer of Military Technology in Third Century BC Viêt Nam - MARILYNN LAREW 

Flaming Tiger, Burning Dragon: Elements of Early Modern Vietnamese Military Technology - GEORGE DUTTON 

Ambivalence and Ambiguity: Traditional Vietnam's Incorporation of External Cultural and Technical Contributions - NGUYêN THê ANH

 
Medicine, Nationalism, and Revolution in Vietnam: The Roots of Medical Collaboration to 1945 - C. MICHELE THOMPSON 

REVIEWS

Fan Dainian and Robert S. Cohen (eds.), Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Translated by Kathleen Dugan and Jiang Mingshan - reviewed by Iwo Amelung

Joanna Grant, A Chinese Physician : Wang Ji and the "Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories" - reviewed by Ann Shu-ju Chiu

Zhang Junhua and Martin Woesler (eds.), China's Digital Dream: The Impact of the Internet on Chinese Society - reviewed by Ulrich Theobald

Hson-Mou Chang and Paul Pui-Hay But, Pharmacology and Applications of Chinese Materia Medica - reviewed by Ulrike Unschuld

Zhu Kezhen Award and Zhu Kezhen Junior Award

The 11th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia

Note from the Editor

ARTICLES

Technical Representation in China: Tools and Techniques of the Trade - PETER J. GOLAS

The Westernization of Chinese Mathematics: A Case Study of the duoji Method and its Development - TIAN MIAO 

New Terms for Telling the Truth: Notes on the Formation of Modern Chinese Logical Terminology, 1886-1911 - JOACHIM KURTZ

Peter P. T. Sah and the Synthesis of Vitamin C in China and Europe - ZHANG LI

The Introduction of European Astronomical Instruments and the Related Technology into China during the Seventeenth Century - ZHANG BAICHUN

REVIEWS

Elisabeth Hsu (ed.), Innovation in Chinese Medicine -  reviewed by Nathan Sivin

Catherine Jami and Peter Engelfriet (eds.), Statecraft and Intellectual Renewal in Late Ming China. The Cross-Cultural Synthesis of Xu Guangqi (1562-1633) - reviewed by Ina Asim

Jürgen Renn and Matthias Schemmel, Waagen und Wissen in China: Bericht einer Forschungsreise - reviewed by Harald Witthöft

Zhu Kezhen Award and Zhu Kezhen Junior Award

Note from the Editor

ARTICLES

A "Chinese Eratosthenes" Reconsidered: Chinese and Greek Calculations and Categories - LISA RAPHALS

The Yabuuti Paradigm in the History of Chinese Science - NAKAYAMA SHIGERU 

Bibliography of the late Prof. Yabuuti Kiyosi - TŌGŌ TOSHIHIRO

REVIEW ARTICLE

New Directions in the History of Science in East Asia - MARTA E. HANSON 

REVIEWS

Peter Golas, Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Part XIII: Mining - reviewed by Donald Wagner

Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea. The Yin-hai jing-wei: A Chinese Classic on Ophthalmology. Translated and annotated by Jürgen Kovacs and Paul U. Unschuld - reviewed by Hartmut Walravens

Donald B. Wagner, The State and Iron Industry in Han China - reviewed by Michael Loewe

David Wright, Translating Science: The Transmission of Western Chemistry into Late Imperial China, 1840-1900 - reviewed by James Reardon-Anderson

Iwo Amelung, Der Gelbe Fluß in Shandong (1851-1911): Überschwemmungskatastrophen und ihre Bewältigung im China der späten Qing-Zeit - reviewed by Silvia Freiin Ebner von Eschenbach

Early Chinese Medical Literature: The Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts. Translation and study by Donald J. Harper - reviewed by Stephan Peter Bumbacher 

Note from the Editor

In Memory of Prof. Yabuuti Kiyosi

Presentation - CATHERINE JAMI 

Yabuuti Kiyosi as a Historian of Exact Sciences - YANO MICHIO 

Responses to Prof. Yabuuti's Work: Studies on Mathematical Astronomy in Ancient China - QU ANJING 

Scientific Discourse and National/Cultural Identity within the Boundary of Chinese Civilisation: Yabuuti's View on the Dialogue between the Civilisations of China, Korea, and Japan - TSUKAHARA TOGO 

Yabuuti Kiyosi's Research on Traditional Technology in Japan - TŌGŌ TOSHIHIRO

ARTICLES

Blast Furnaces in Song-Yuan China - DONALD B. WAGNER

Changing Standards: Tracing Changes in Acu-moxa Therapy During the Transition from the Tang to the Song Dynasties - ASAF GOLDSCHMIDT

REVIEWS

Yabuuti Kiyosi, Une histoire des mathématiques chinoises - reviewed by Alexeï Volkov

Q. Y. Yu, The Implementation of China's Science and Technology Policy - reviewed by Richard P. Suttmeier

Andrea Bréard, Re-Kreation eines mathematischen Konzeptes im chinesischen Diskurs. "Reihen" vom 1. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert - reviewed by Erhard Scholz

Paul U. Unschuld, Medicine in China: Historical Artifacts and Images - reviewed by Ruth Rogaski

Keith Pinn, Paktong: The Chinese Alloy in Europe, 1680-1820 - reviewed by Mei Jianjun

Park Seong-Rae, Portents and Politics in Korean History - reviewed by Paik Songjung

Note from the Editor

Obituary Dr. Yabuuti Kiyosi (1906-2000) - HASHIMOTO KEIZO

ARTICLES

Crossing the Neiguan 内關 "Inner Pass" : A Nei/Wai 内外 "Inner/Outer" Distinction in Early Chinese Medicine - VIVIENNE LO

The Ideal Physician in Late Imperial China: The Question of Sanshi 三世 - CHAO YÜAN-LING 

The Chemistry and Fabrication of the Anthropogenic Pigments Chinese Blue and Purple in Ancient China - HEINZ BERKE and HANS G. WIEDEMANN 

REVIEWS

Christoph Harbsmeier, Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 1: Language and Logic in Traditional China - reviewed by Nathan Sivin

Donald B. Wagner, The Traditional Chinese Iron Industry and its Modern Fate - reviewed by Peter J. Golas

P. Y. Ho and F. P. Lisowski, A Brief History of Chinese Medicine and Its Influence -  reviewed by Chao Yüan-ling

Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina (eds.), Situating the History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph Needham - reviewed by Fu Daiwie

Sun Xiaochun and Jacob Kistemaker, The Chinese Sky during the Han: Constellating Stars and Society - reviewed by Michael Nylan

Thomas Heise, Qigong in der VR China: Entwicklung, Theorie und Praxis - reviewed by Ute Engelhardt

Kuriyama Shigehisa, The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine - reviewed by Elisabeth Hsu

Note from the New Editor

ARTICLES

Hybrid Science versus Modernity: The Practice of the Jiangnan Arsenal, 1864-1897 - MENG YUE

Introducing a French Technological System: The Origin and Early History of the Yokosuka Dockyard - TAKEHIKO HASHIMOTO

The Trouble with Mechanized Farming: The Politics of Technological Change in the Netherlands East Indies, ca. 1920 - SUZANNE M. MOON

Beyond Science and Civilization: A Post-Needham Critique - ROGER HART 

REVIEW ARTICLE

The Jesuits Did NOT Manufacture "Confucianism" - Nicolas Standaert