East Asian Science: Tradition and Beyond: Papers from the Seventh International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, Kyoto, 2-7 August 1993 英文原版-《东亚科学:传统与超越:第七届东亚科学史国际会议论文,京都,1993.8.2-7》
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to express our gratitude to the Commemorative Association for the Japan World Exposition (1970), to the Japanese Ministry of Education, and to the Kansai Research Institute for their generous grants. Besides providing the resources for the Seventh International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, their generosity also made possible the publication of the present volume. We are also thankful to the many individual donors, without whom the Conference would not have been successful. Mr. KOBAYASHI Shoichiro, of the Keihanna Interaction Plaza, and Prof. ÖKUBO Masaichi, of the Kansai Research Institute, provided invaluable assistance in the organi- sation of the Conference. Last but not least, our gratitude goes to the members of the local organising committee, chaired by Prof. T.S. OKADA, and to the many students and scholars who helped so willingly and so efficiently during the Conference. K.H., C.J., L.S. The Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, England, August 1994.
FOREWORD HASHIMOTO Keizo, Catherine JAMI, and Lowell SKAR East Asian Science: Tradition and Beyond continues to completion the Seventh International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (7th ICHSEA). The conference convened near Kyôto, 27 August 1993, and its nearly two hundred par- ticipants hailed from fourteen countries. The convergence of such a geographically diverse ensemble in Kyôto brought together a wide-ranging ensemble of approaches and topics among the more than one hundred presentations. Nonetheless, just as the confer- ence consisted of the composition of topics and themes arranged by conference organisers and those proposed independently by participants, so this volume has emerged from the union of its contributors' own visions and the aims of the editors. While retaining much of the conference's structure and content, this compilation also testifies to the multiform vitality of a steadily maturing field of inquiry. The conference was held in honour of Professor Yabuuti Kiyosi, who was then celebrating his Rice Age 米壽 the "eighty-eighth" year of life, whose symbolically rich numeral 八十八 can be read within the Chinese character for "rice"米,Professor Yabuuti's outstanding contributions to the history of astronomy and other sciences in China are well known to all in the field. His rigourous and enthusiastic teaching encouraged a whole generation of Japanese historians of science to continue their studies. Most of them paid tribute to their teacher by acting to ensure the success of the conference. The history of the conference series prior to the 7th ICHSEA parallels an even growth and development in the area of East Asian science studies. In 1982, the First International Conference on the History of Science in China (ICHSC) held in Louvain, Belgium, attracted thirty participants. Successive conferences of the ICHSC series took place in Hong Kong (1983), Beijing (1984), Sydney, Australia (1986), San Diego, California (1988), and Cambridge, U.K. (1990). Participants at the Cambridge conference agreed to found the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technol- ogy, and Medicine (ISHEASTM). The choice of this name marked a significant change in perspective for the society, by widening its scope of study from China to the entire East Asian cultural area, within which regular exchanges ensured perpetuation and innovation in shared traditions of classical Chinese learning. The 7th ICHSEA was the latest incar- nation of the conference series, and at the same time held the first triennial meeting of the ISHEASTM.
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