Annotated_bibliography_of_science_and_medicine_in_traditional_and_modern_China_Western_Languages.pdfVIP

SELECTED, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF CHINESE SCIENCE AND MEDICINE SOURCES IN WESTERN LANGUAGES N. Sivin This annotated bibliography covers science and medicine in traditional and modern China. It is organized as follows: HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN IMPERIAL CHINA * Reference Works * General * Science and Society * Science and Philosophy * Science and Religion * The Early Encounter With Europe * Mathematics and Divination * Astronomy * Alchemy and Early Chemical Arts * Siting geomancy , Cartography, and Earth Sciences * HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINA * HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN IMPERIAL CHINA * Reference Works * Studies Useful for Orientation * Medicine and Related Topics * Materia Medica * HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINA * Reference Works * Medicine and Related Topics * This?list?emphasizes?recent?publications,?for?two?reasons.?With?respect?to?China?before?ca.?1800,?the bibliographies?in?Joseph?Needham’s?Science?and?Civilisation?in?China? see?below,?p.?* ?are?extremely rich,?and?merely?need?to?be?supplemented.?Although?they?are?unannotated,?the?reader?can?easily?use the?indexes?to??nd?evaluations?of?sources.?There?is?no?correspondingly?thorough?survey?for?the?last two?centuries,?but?on?the?other?hand?a?large?part?of?the?literature?on?that?period?published?more?than a?decade?ago?is?already?obsolete. The?obvious?di?erences?in?the?subdivisions?of?this?bibliography?re?ect?the?varying?character?and extent?of?the?literature?in?each?category.?Books?on?traditional?medicine?keep?pouring?out,?most?of them?with?no?scholarly?value,?because,?unlike?the?old?astronomy,?alchemy,?and?so?on,?medicine?is still?widely?practiced?and?the?commercial?demand,?outside?China?as?well?as?inside,?is?enormous. Historians?have?conspicuously?neglected?recent?technology?and?science.?Most?publications?are concerned?with?policy?about?them?rather?than?the?work?and?the?people?who?did?them. Publications?are?included?mostly