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In A Cultural History of Modern Science in China, Elman has retold the story of the Jesuit impact on late imperial China, circa 1600-1800, and the Protestant era in early modern China from the 1840's to 1900 in a concise and accessible form ideal for the classroom.

Science --- Technology --- History. --- S19/0160 --- S19/0140 --- China: Natural sciences--Technology, inventions --- China: Natural sciences--History of sciences --- Sciences --- Technologie --- History --- Histoire

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S19/1100 --- S19/0160 --- S02/0310 --- China: Natural sciences--Mathematics (incl. abacus) --- China: Natural sciences--Technology, inventions --- China: General works--Intercultural dialogue --- Geometry --- Mathematics, CHinese --- Trigonometry --- Mathematics --- Euclid's Elements --- Trig (Trigonometry) --- Trigonometrie --- Histoire

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S19/0100 --- S19/0140 --- S19/0160 --- S19/1000 --- China: Natural sciences--Bibliographies, dictionaries, yearbooks and collections --- China: Natural sciences--History of sciences --- China: Natural sciences--Technology, inventions --- China: Natural sciences--Physica and nuclear physica

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"In Kao Gong Ji: The World's Oldest Encyclopaedia of Technologies, Guan Zengjian and Konrad Herrmann offer an English translation and commentary of the first technological encyclopaedia in China. This work came into being around the 5th century C.E. and contains descriptions of thirty technologies used at the time. Most prominent are bronze casting, the manufacture of carriages and weapons, a metrological standard, the making of musical instruments, and the planning of cities. The technologies, including the manufacturing process and quality assurance, are based on standardization and modularization. In several commentaries, the editors show to which degree the descriptions of Kao Gong Ji correspond to archaeological findings"--

Technology --- Science --- History --- S19/0140 --- S19/0160 --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- China: Natural sciences--History of sciences --- China: Natural sciences--Technology, inventions --- Natural sciences

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China's extraordinary economic development is explained in large part by the way it innovates. Through case studies and policy analysis, this book reveals how China's innovation machine acts in a similar way to a natural ecosystem, in which the best fitting innovations that are initially random and isolated are selected by the market and amplified.

Economic development --- Technological innovations --- Business enterprises --- Economic aspects --- S10/0260 --- S10/0760 --- S19/0160 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--The Chinese model --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Transfer of technology --- China: Natural sciences--Technology, inventions