Jésuites en Chine impériale

East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (EASTM)

#34Special Issue

Networks and Circulation of Knowledge: Encounters between Jesuits, Manchus and Chinese in Late Imperial China

Note from the Editor-in-Chief                         9

Introduction from the Guest Editor
— NICOLAS STANDAERT                                 12

The Jesuits in China and the Circulation of
Western Books in the Sciences (17th-18th
Centuries): The Medical and Pharmaceutical
Sections in the SJ Libraries of Peking
—NOËL GOLVERS                                         15

Jesuit Medicine in the Kangxi Court (1662-1722):
Imperial Networks and Patronage
—BEATRIZ PUENTE-BALLESTEROS                         86

Research Note
Introduction and Development of the Screw in
Seventeenth-Century China: Theoretical
Explanations and Practical Applications by
Ferdinand Verbiest
—NICOLE HALSBERGHE                                163

Reviews

Wu Yi-Li, Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor,
and Childbirth in Late Imperial China
—reviewed by Larissa N. Heinrich                195

Livia Kohn, Chinese Healing Exercises: The
Tradition of Daoyin
—reviewed by Paul D. Buell                        199

David Barker, Traditional Techniques in
Contemporary Chinese Printmaking (Printmaking
Handbook)
—reviewed by Andreas Seifert                        202

Hartmut Walravens (ed.), A Japanese Herbal in the
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
—reviewed by Teruyuki Kubo                        205

Carla Nappi, The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural
History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China
—reviewed by Timothy H. Barrett                210

Asaf Goldschmidt, The Evolution of Chinese
Medicine: Song Dynasty, 960-1200
—reviewed by Valerie Hansen                          219

Kapil Raj, Relocating Modern Science: Circulation
and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia
and Europe, 1650-1900
—reviewed by Toby E. Huff                        222

Roger Hart, The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra
—reviewed by Eberhard Knobloch                        225

Chao Yüan-ling, Medicine and Society in Late
Imperial China: A Study of Physicians in Suzhou,
1600-1850
—reviewed by Xiaoping Fang                     228

Michael Keevak, Becoming Yellow: A Short History
of Racial Thinking
—reviewed by Walter Demel                        231