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Science and Confucian Statecraft in East Asia explores science and technology as practiced in the governments of premodern China and Korea. Contrary to the stereotypical image of East Asian bureaucracy as a generally negative force having hindered free enquiries and scientific progress, this volume offers a more nuanced picture of how science and technology was deployed in the service of state governance in East Asia. Presenting richly documented cases of the major state-sponsored sciences, astronomy, medicine, gunpowder production, and hydraulics, this book illustrates how rulers' and scholar-officials' concern for efficient and legitimate governance shaped production, circulation, and application of natural knowledge and useful techniques. Contributors include: Francesca Bray, Christopher Cullen, Asaf Goldschmidt, Cho-ying Li, Jongtae Lim, Peter Lorge, Joong-Yang Moon, Kwon soo Park, Dongwon Shin, Pierre-Etienne Will
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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-Etienne Will5 Calendar Publishing and Local Science in Choson 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 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 (hyangnyok) to Eastern Calendar (tongnyok): the Aspiration for an Independent Calendar of the Kingdom in Late Choson KoreaMoon Joong-YangIndex
