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Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei, Neither Donkey Nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China’s Modernity
Full text linkGrace Yen Shen, Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China
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Benjamin A. Elman, Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology: From Early Modern to Modern Sino-Japanese Medical Discourses
Full text linkReview Article on Jessieca Leo's "Sex in the Yellow Emperor’s Basic Questions"
Full text linkReview Article on Jessieca Leo's Sex in the Yellow Emperor’s Basic Questions: Sex, Longevity, and Medicine in Early Chin
Special Issue on Numerical Tables and Tabular Layouts in Chinese Scholarly Documents—Part I: On the Work to Produce Tables and the Meaning of their Format
Full text linkNumerical Tables in Chinese Writings Devoted to Mathematics: From Early Imperial Manuscripts to Printed Song-Yuan Books
Full text linkThis article establishes that the discursive parts of the earliest known mathematical manuscripts in Chinese were composed of (at least) two types of elements, marked by two types of texts. The manuscripts alternate continuous text, and text for numerical tables (what I call table-relations). I show that in these manuscripts, the latter were written down as ‘textual tables,’ and that two basic types of style were used for these textual tables. By contrast, tabular layouts have been used for a Qin period object and a Dunhuang manuscript carrying numerical tables. I suggest that these artifacts should be interpreted as computing tools. I further argue that, at least from the eleventh century onwards, diagrammatic tables were introduced into mathematical writings. They were used to write down new types of numerical tables. Diagrammatic features of such texts, like horizontal, vertical and oblique lines, played a key part in the reading, interpretation and use of these table-relations. In this sense, they can be compared with the Qin computing tool. I conclude that the fact that in Song-Yuan times these diagrammatic tables are referred to as ‘diagram tu 圖’ curiously echoes with the history of visual tools attested to in relation to mathematical activity in China
Andrew Edmund Goble, Kenneth R. Robinson, and Haruko Wakabayashi (eds.), Tools of Culture: Japan’s Cultural, Intellectual, Medical, and Technological Contacts in East Asia, 1000s-1500s
Full text linkA Fatal Case of Gu 蠱 Poisoning in Fourth-Century BC China?
Full text linkThis essay reexamines the fourth century BC divination records found in the tomb of Shao Tuo 邵佗 in Baoshan 包山, Jingzhou 荊州, Hubei. Using charts, rules, and examples for divination from a newly discoveredtrigram divination text, called by modern scholars, the Shifa 筮法 (Stalk Method), and preserved in the Tsinghua University collection of Warring States period bamboo manuscripts, the author suggests a radical new way to interpret stalk divination results and speculates upon a possible diagnosis. Essentially, the author unpacks the Baoshan results according to the rules of trigram divination given in the Shifa and not of hexagram divination as in the Zhouyi 周易 (Changes of Zhou)