Science and Confucian Statecraft in East Asia

Francesca Bray, PhD (1985) University of Cambridge, is Emerita Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Recent books include Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft (co-edited, Brill, 2007) and Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered (Routledge, 2013).Jongtae Lim, Ph.D. (2003), Seoul National University, teaches the history of science in East Asia at that university. He has conducted research on early modern Korean science, particularly the history of Western learning and the scientific exchange between China and Korea.

• ContentsFigures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: Science and Confucian Statecraft in East AsiaFrancesca BrayPart 1: Making State Sciences Work2 Confucian Statecraft and the Production of Saltpeter and Sulfur in Song Dynasty ChinaPeter Lorge3 Song Government and Medicine – the Case of the Imperial PharmacyAsaf Goldschmidt4 Forensic Science and the Late Imperial Chinese StatePierre-Étienne Will5 Calendar Publishing and Local Science in Chosŏn KoreaPark Kwon SooPart 2: State, Science, and Legitimacy6 “As a Sage-king Reemerges, All Water Returns to Its Proper Path”: Xia Yuanji’s Water Management and the Legitimisation of the Yongle ReignCho-ying Li7 Measuring the Rainfall in an East Asian State Bureaucracy: the Use of Rain-Measuring Utensils in Late Eighteenth-Century KoreaLim Jongtae林宗台8 Measures against Epidemics in Late Eighteenth-Century Korea: Reformation or Restoration?Shin Dongwon9 Delivering Whose Seasons?  Non-state Knowledge of the Heavens in Early Imperial China, and Its Official AppropriationChristopher Cullen10 From Local Calendar (hyangnyŏk) to Eastern Calendar (tongnyŏk): the Aspiration for an Independent Calendar of the Kingdom in Late Chosŏn KoreaMoon Joong-YangIndex