The Jesuit legacy -- Recovering the Chinese classics -- The rise of Imperial Chinese manufacturing and trade -- Science and the Protestant mission -- From textbooks to Darwin: modern science arrives -- Government arsenals spur new technologies -- The displacement of traditional Chinese science and medicine -- Appendixes.

Philological study of the topic (Diagrams of the Records of Technology). Note on Kaogong ji with reference to the original: "... earliest work with an interest for the historian of Chinese technology, the Kaogong ji (Record of the scrutiny of crafts). It is part of the Zhouli 周禮 and dates from the fifth century BC. It contains details of the making of carriages, weapons, boats, and musical instruments and details on compounding bronze."--Cf. Wilkinson, Chinese history, a manual, p. 667.

"Nongzheng quanshu 農政全書 (Comprehensive treatise on agricultural administration) (1639). Important because it summed up the state of the art; it was highly popular in Tokugawa Japan. Xu was friendly with some of the Jesuit scholars and has included excerpts from European works on hydraulics. See Science and Civilisation in China, v. 6, pt. 2, 64-70 (incl. trans. of table of contents)." Cf. Wilkinson, Chinese History, a Manual, p. 630.

v. 1. Introductory orientations.--v. 2. History of scientific thought.--v. 3. Mathematics and the sciences of the heavens and the earth.--v. 4. Physics and physical technology: pt. 1. Physics, with the collaboration of Wang Ling and the special co-operation of Kenneth Girdwood Robinson. pt. 2. Mechanical engineering. pt. 3. Civil engineering and nautics with the collaboration of Wang Ling and Lu Gwei-Djen.--v. 5. Chemistry and chemical technology: pt. 1. Paper and printing / by Tsien Tsuen-hsuin. pt. 2. Spagyrical discovery and invention: magisteries of gold and immortality, with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen. pt. 3. Spagyrical discovery and invention: historical survey, from cinnabar elixirs to synthetic insulin. pt. 4. Spagyrical discovery and invention: apparatus, theories, and gifts. pt. 5. Spagyrical discovery and invention : physiological alchemy / with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen. pt. 6. Military technology, missiles and sieges. pt. 7. Military technology, the gunpowder epic. pt. 9. Textile technology, spinning and reeling / by Dieter Kuhn. pt. 13. Mining / by Peter J. Golas.--v. 6. Biology and biological technology. pt. 1. Botany. pt. 2. Agriculture / by Francesca Bray. pt. 3. Agro-industries and forestry / by Christian Daniels, Nicholas K. Menzies. pt. 5. Fermentations and food science / by H.T. Huang. pt. 6. Medicine -- v. 7. Language and logic / by Christoph Harbsmeier. pt. 1-
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Table of contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam022/54004723.html (above for v. 6, pt. 5).

Keywords: European influences on Chinese science and technology, 16th, 17th, 18th, centuries; comments on Mendoza, Ricci, French Jesuits and French Royal mathematicians and academics; England's Royal Society, 17th-18th century astronomy, observatories, medicine and medical science, mechanics and mechanical arts, printing, movable type, porcelain.