Essay Review ID: CBB090430063

Essay Review of Twenty-Six Volumes of History of Science and Technology in China (October 2022)

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This article reviews twenty-six volumes of History of Science and Technology in China, a collaborative scholarly work published from 1998 to 2011. The review focuses on the volumes dealing with the history of technology: Mining and Metallurgy, Machinery, and Transportation. Clearly the series has impacted Chinese literature on the history of technology in China, being the first work to comprehensively and systematically study and expound the history of science and technology in ancient China from the perspective of Chinese scholars.

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Authors & Contributors
Xuetao Li
Zhang, Baichun
Rita Pezzola
Lu, Jiaxi
Blomgren, Stig
Tholander, Erik
Journals
Technology and Culture
Guangxi Minzu Xueyuan Xuebao
Polhem: Tidskrift för Teknikhistoria
Past and Present
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
History of Physics Newsletter
Publishers
Springer
Pavia University Press
University of California Press
Science Press
Petra Books
Franco Angeli
Concepts
History of technology, as a discipline
History of science, as a discipline
Machines
Technology
Metallurgy
Transportation
People
Needham, Joseph
Time Periods
19th century
Ancient
20th century
20th century
4th century
5th century
Places
China
Italy
Rome (Italy)
England
Sweden
Greece
Institutions
International Congress of the History of Science
American Institute of Physics
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