East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (EASTM - Universität Tübingen)

Elman, Benjamin

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

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Wang, Aihe

Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin, The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece

East Asian 
Science, Technology, 
and Medicine 
 
Number 22 
2004 
 
A journal dedicated to the study of traditional and modern  
East Asian science, technology, and medicine. 
 
 
 
Editor:  
Hans Ulrich Vogel 
 
Seminar für Sinologie und Koreanistik 
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen 
Wilhelmstr. 133 
72074 Tübingen / Germany 
FAX: 0049 - 7071 - 295733 
E-Mail: eastm@uni-tuebingen.de 
 
 
Managing and Production Editors: 
He Heng, Seminar für Sinologie und Koreanistik, Tübingen 
Tobias Wissler, Seminar für Sinologie und Koreanistik, Tübingen 
 
English Language Editor:  
John P. C. Moffett, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge (UK) 
 
Editorial Consultant: 
Jutta Rall-Niu, Seminar für Sprache und Kultur Chinas, Universität Hamburg 
 
Local Advisory Board: 
Klaus J. Antoni, Seminar für Japanologie, Tübingen 
Dieter Eikemeier, Seminar für Sinologie und Koreanistik, Tübingen 
Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo, Seminar für Japanologie, Tübingen 
Robert Horres, Seminar für Japanologie, Tübingen 
Hermann Kogelschatz, Seminar für Sinologie und Koreanistik, Tübingen 
 
 
 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE 
Bridie Andrews, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University 
Francesca Bray, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa 
Barbara 
Christopher Cullen, Department of History, SOAS, University of London  
Benjamin A. Elman, East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University 
Charlotte Furth, Department of  History, University of Southern California, Los 
Angeles 
Hashimoto Keizō, Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University, Osaka 
Huang Yi-Long, Institute of History, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 
Jeon Sang-Woon, Cultural Properties Committee Korea, Seoul 
Catherine Jami, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 
Yung Sik Kim, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University 
Dieter Kuhn, Institut für Kulturwissenschaften Ost- und Südasiens - Sinologie, 
Universität Würzburg 
Angela Ki Che Leung, Sun Yat-Sen Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy, 
Academia Sinica, Taipei 
Liu Bing, Institute of  Science, Technology and Society, Tsinghua University, 
Beijing 
Liu Dun, Institute for the History of Natural Science, Academia Sinica, Beijing 
Morris Low, Department of Asian Languages and Studies, University of 
Queensland, Brisbane 
Georges Métailié, Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS-EHESS-MNHN, Paris 
Shi Yunli, Department of the History of  Science and Scientific Archaeology, 
University  of  Science and Technology of China, Hefei 
Nathan Sivin, Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University of 
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 
C. Michele Thompson, Department of History, Southern Connecticut State 
University, New Haven 
Tsukahara Togo, History and Philosophy of  Science, Technology and Medicine, 
Kobe University 
Paul U. Unschuld, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Ludwig-Maximilians-
Universität München 
Donald B. Wagner, Department of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen 
Yoshida Tadashi, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai 
 
 
 
 THE SCOPE OF EASTM 
Copyright  2004. EASTM (formerly Chinese Science) is published by the International 
Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (ISHEASTM). 
Numbers 1-10 (1975-92) were published irregularly under the editorship of Nathan Sivin 
(University of Pennsylvania). Numbers 11-15 (1993-98) were issued annually at the 
University of California, Los Angeles, by Benjamin A. Elman. Beginning with Number 
16 (1999), the name of the journal changed to East Asian Science, Technology, and 
Medicine and is published at the University of Tübingen, Germany. From Number 20 
(2003) there are two issues per year. The publication of this periodical is supported by a 
grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). 
This journal includes studies on the science, technology, and medicine of traditional and 
contemporary East Asia. Any study based on original research using Chinese, Japanese, 
or Korean primary sources or artifacts, that elucidates the relationships and interactions of 
science, technology, and medicine with politics, society, economics, philosophy, culture, 
religion, historiography, as well as their disciplinary traditions, or throws light on the 
work of scientists, technologists, and physicians in East Asia will gladly be considered. 
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manuscripts in order to ensure that their work falls within the purview of EASTM, and to 
simplify the preparation of the final copy. All contributions except invited reviews are 
refereed. The editor does not referee. For Chinese romanization, both Pinyin and Wade-
Giles transcriptions are accepted, while for Japanese and Korean, the Hepburn and 
McCune/Reischauer systems are to be used. With regard to style and format, contributors 
should refer to the latest issue of EASTM. Information on the preparation of manuscripts 
and their submission in electronic form will also be provided on request. 
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ISHEASTM 
The publication, since the fifties, of Joseph Needham’s (1900-1995) monumental work, 
Science and Civilisation in China, has been followed by a rapid development of research 
on the history of science, technology, and medicine in China, as well as in civilisations 
upon which Chinese culture exerted an important influence, such as Japan, Korea, and 
Vietnam. Since 1982, International Conferences on the History of Science in China had 
been held at irregular intervals. At the sixth of these conferences, held in Cambridge in 
1990 in honour of Joseph Needham’s ninetieth birthday, participants agreed to found the 
International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 
(ISHEASTM).   
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its name.  It aims, primarily, to promote contacts and exchanges between those scholars, 
and also to establish and reinforce links with other scholarly communities, at an 
international level.  The Society’s activities include: 
• The organisation of a plenary meeting every three years (Kyoto 1993, Seoul 1996, 
Singapore 1999, Shanghai 2002, Munich 2005); 
• The publication of a journal, EASTM, on a semi-annual basis; 
• The publication of a semi-annual Bulletin. 
 
 
This journal is printed on acid-free paper. 
 
 
ISSN #1562-918X 
 
 
 
 


Editorial

Vogel, Hans Ulrich

Note from the Editor

Larew, Marilynn

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

Golas, Peter J.

Technical Representation in China: Tools and Techniques of the Trade

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

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Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin, The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece

Editorial

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Note from the Editor

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