Historical Perspectives On East Asian Science, Technology And Medicine

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Historical Perspectives On East Asian Science, Technology And Medicine is written by Alan Kam Leung Chan and published by World Scientific. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 981448864X (ISBN 10) and 9789814488648 (ISBN 13).

Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine brings together over fifty papers by leading contemporary historians from more than a dozen nations. It is the third in a series of books growing out of the tri-annual International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, the largest and most prestigious gathering of scholars in the field. The current volume broadens the field's traditional focus on China to include path-breaking work on Vietnam, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and even the transmission of Asian science and technology to Europe and the United States. Topics covered include: traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, and Filipino medicines; Chinese astronomy; Japanese earthquakes; science and technology policy; architecture; the digital revolution; and much else.