NEW HISTORIES OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE

List of Illustrations
Conventions
Chinese Dynasties
Introduction
1. The Jesuit Legacy
2. Recovering the Chinese Classics
3. The Rise of Imperial Chinese Manufacturing and Trade
4. Science and the Protestant Mission
5. From Textbooks to Darwin: Modern Science Arrives
6. Government Arsenals Spur New Technologies
7. The Displacement of Traditional Chinese Science and Medicine
Appendixes
- 1. Tang Mathematical Classics
- 2. “Science Outline Series,” 1882–1898
- 3. Table of Contents for the 1886 Primers for Science Studies
- 4. Twenty-three Fields of the Sciences in the 1886 Primers for Science Studies
- 5. Some Officially Selected Chinese Prize Essay Topics from the Shanghai Polytechnic
- 6. Some Translations of Chemistry, 1855–1873
- 7. Partial Chronological List of Arsenals, etc., in China, 1861–1892
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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