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Author Sugimoto, Masayoshi, 1928-

Title Science And Culture In Traditional Japan / Masayoshi Sugimoto and David L. Swain.

Publication Info. North Clarendon, Vermont : Tuttle Publishing, 2016.

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Summary This book of Japanese history explores the development of science and technology in traditional Japanese society. It may be surprising to some readers familiar with the history of Japan that that scientific thought existed at all in traditional Japan. However, Science and Culture in Traditional Japan show the development of premodern science in Japan in the context of that country's social and intellectual milieu. Anyone who wishes to understand the development of Japan's science and technology over the last hundred years will appreciate this history of the centuries that preceded modernization, for it is the story of why and how Japan was ready and, more importantly, able to make the leap from Eastern to Western science. The history and culture book shows how Japan's long pattern of assimilation-in advancing and receding waves-of Chinese science (and some Western science) laid the foundation for an appreciation of the need for and value of the "new" Western knowledge.
Note Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed May 02, 2016).
Contents Frontcover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Foreword; Introduction; Map of East Asia during Chinese Cultural Wave I; Map of japan during Chinese Cultural Wave II; 1. Science in japan's First Cultural Transformation; Chinese Cultural Wave I: ca. 600-894; Learning in Chinese Wave I; Science in Chinese Wave II; 2. Five Centuries of Indigenous Development; The Semiseclusion Era: 894-1401; Learning; The Specific Sciences; 3. Pressures toward Modern Society; Early Chinese Cultural Wave II: 1401-1639; Western Cultural Wave I: 1543-1639; Transitions in Japanese Culture.
Techniques Strategic to Modernizing ProcessesLearning in the Transitional Period; The Sciences in Transition; 4. The Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Outburst; National Isolation and the Peak of Chinese Cultural; Wave II: 1639-1720; Learning in the Seventeenth Century; The Sciences; 5. The Shift from Traditional to Modern Science; Challenge to Isolation: 1720-1854; Developments in the Sciences; Aftermath of Chinese Wave II and Western Wave II; Appendix: Chronological Charts; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject History.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Swain, David L., 1927-
Other Form: Print version: Sugimoto, Masayoshi. Science and Culture in Traditional Japan. New York, NY : Tuttle Publishing, ©2016
ISBN 9781462918133 (electronic book)
1462918131 (electronic book)
Music No. EB00666593 Recorded Books