Science and Confucian Statecraft in East Asia explores science and technology as practiced in the governments of premodern China and Korea. Contrary to the stereotypical image of East Asian bureaucracy as a generally negative force having hindered free enquiries and scientific progress, this volume offers a more nuanced picture of how science and technology was deployed in the service of state governance in East Asia. Presenting richly documented cases of the major state-sponsored sciences, astronomy, medicine, gunpowder production, and hydraulics, this book illustrates how rulers' and scholar-officials' concern for efficient and legitimate governance shaped production, circulation, and application of natural knowledge and useful techniques.
Contributors include: Francesca Bray, Christopher Cullen, Asaf Goldschmidt, Cho-ying Li, Jongtae Lim, Peter Lorge, Joong-Yang Moon, Kwon soo Park, Dongwon Shin, Pierre-Etienne Will
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Francesca Bray, PhD (1985) University of Cambridge, is Emerita Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Recent books include Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft (co-edited, Brill, 2007) and Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered (Routledge, 2013).
Jongtae Lim, Ph.D. (2003), Seoul National University, teaches the history of science in East Asia at that university. He has conducted research on early modern Korean science, particularly the history of Western learning and the scientific exchange between China and Korea.
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?1?Introduction: Science and Confucian Statecraft in East Asia
??Francesca Bray
Part 1: Making State Sciences Work
?2?Confucian Statecraft and the Production of Saltpeter and Sulfur in Song Dynasty China
??Peter Lorge
?3?Song Government and Medicine - the Case of the Imperial Pharmacy
??Asaf Goldschmidt
?4?Forensic Science and the Late Imperial Chinese State
??Pierre-Etienne Will
?5?Calendar Publishing and Local Science in Choson Korea
??Park Kwon Soo
Part 2: State, Science, and Legitimacy
?6?"As a Sage-king Reemerges, All Water Returns to Its Proper Path": Xia Yuanji's Water Management and the Legitimisation of the Yongle Reign
??Cho-ying Li
?7?Measuring the Rainfall in an East Asian State Bureaucracy: the Use of Rain-Measuring Utensils in Late Eighteenth-Century Korea
??Lim Jongtae???
?8?Measures against Epidemics in Late Eighteenth-Century Korea: Reformation or Restoration?
??Shin Dongwon
?9?Delivering Whose Seasons? Non-state Knowledge of the Heavens in Early Imperial China, and Its Official Appropriation
??Christopher Cullen
?10?From Local Calendar (hyangnyok) to Eastern Calendar (tongnyok): the Aspiration for an Independent Calendar of the Kingdom in Late Choson Korea
??Moon Joong-Yang
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