Science: General
- LoC Country Study - China: Science and Technology (1987) (Library of Congress, USA)
(http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cntoc.html#cn0254).
Language: English.
Description: This is chapter 9 of the LoC Country Study on China, edited in 1987. Site contents: (1) Historical Development of Science and Technology Policy; (2) Science and Technology in the 1980s; (3) The Reform Program; (4) Technology Transfer.
Added/revised on 05 Jun 1999 (HL)
China: Environment, Science, Technology & Health Section (US Embassy, Beijing, China)
(http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/sandt/).
Language: English.
Description: Some 200 reports on environment, science, technology and health issues, written by the Environment, Science and Technology section of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Included are some links to related information on the Web and a section on Chinese-language Internet in the PRC.
Site contents: (1) Beijing Environment, Science and Health Update (A biweekly newsletter from U.S. Embassy Beijing); (2) Recent Reports; (3) U.S. - China ESTH Cooperation; (4) ESTH Reports (Biotechnology; Energy; Environment; Resources Conservation; Environmental NGOs; Sustainable Development; Health; HIV/AIDS; Infrastructure and Economy; Internet and Computers; Population and Family Planning; Science Policy and Society; (5) Links.
Information supplied by David Cowhig, U.S. Embassy, Beijing, China.
Added 18 Aug 1998 (HL), last revised 12 Feb 2005 (HL)
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清蔚園 - 科學教育館 (Qingweiyuan - Science Education Park) (National Tsing Hua University 國立清華大學, Hsinchu, Taiwan)
(http://vm.nthu.edu.tw/science/index.html).
Language: Chinese (Big5).
Description: This site is part of the extraordinary Qingweiyuan 清蔚園 Project and includes the following parts: (1) Famous Scientists 科學名人堂 (pictures, biographies, bibliographies); (2) News Digest from Science Monthly 科學新粹 - 科學月刊摘要; (3) Special Exhibitions 科學展覽 (the main part of this section, ranging from discussions on nuclear energy and the story of the mutated Midiaoyu 秘雕魚 to an evaluation of the remainders of Taiwan's mangrove forests); (4) Book Reviews 書籍評論; (5) Related Web Sites 科學網站; and others. Other sections of Qingweiyuan include Arts 藝文館; History 歷史館; Life 生活館; On-line Academy 書院; WWW Reader's Digest 網路文摘 (under construction); Nature Reserve 自然保護區; and Yushan Astronomical Observatory 玉山天文台.
Added 05 Jun 1999 (HL)
- Joseph Needham Home Page
(http://www2.soas.ac.uk/Needham/Home.html).
Maintained by Christopher Cullen, senior lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK, this site "provides links to pages relating to the life and work of this great China scholar and historian of science, and to the ways in which his work is being continued and developed."
Added 05 Jun 1999 (HL), last revised 12 Mar 2003 (JH).
- Science and Technology in China: Publications by Don Wagner
(http://staff.hum.ku.dk/dbwagner/).
Language: English.
Description: Most of these publications concern the history of science and technology in China, especially mathematics and metallurgy. WWW fulltext versions are provided of the following texts:
1. Books:
The traditional Chinese iron industry and its modern fate (1997, 128 pp).
2. Articles:
"Liu Hui and Tsu Keng-chih on the volume of a sphere" (1978, 20 pp).
"The dating of the Chu graves of Changsha: The earliest iron artifacts in China?" (1987, 45 pp).
"Ancient carburization of iron to steel: A comment" (1990, 6 pp).
"Jern og stål i oldtidens Kina" (1990, 35 pp).
"The cast iron lion of Ts'ang-chou" (1991, 2 pp).
"Early iron in China, Korea, and Japan" (1993, 14 pp).
"The earliest use of iron in China" (1997, 30 pp).
3. Reviews and short notices:
Essay review of G. L. Mattos: The stone drums of Qin (Nettetal 1988) (1990, 15 pp).
Review of William Rostoker and Bennet Bronson: Pre-industrial iron: Its technology and ethnology (Philadelphia 1990) (1993, 4 pp).
'The beginning of iron in China' (1995, 1 p).
"Thirteenth-century Chinese pelletising kilns? Ha Law Wan, Hong Kong" (1996, 3 pp).
Added/revised on 07 Jan 2000 (HL)
Science: Mathematics
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Mathematics in China (David E. Joyce, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA)
(http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/china.html).
Language: English.
Description: David E. Joyce is Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Clark University, USA.
Site contents: (1) A brief outline of the history of Chinese mathematics; (2) Chronology of Mathematicians and Mathematical Works; (3) On-line References; and (4) Bibliography.
Added/revised on 05 Jun 1999 (HL)
Medicine
ChiMed : the history of Chinese medicine webpage (ChiMed, USA)
(http://www.albion.edu/history/chimed/).
Language: English.
Cited description: "The ChiMed web site is managed by an international group of scholars who study the history of medicine in China. We hope it will serve as an electronic clearinghouse where people with similar interests can meet to exchange information and ideas."
Contents: (1) Directory of scholars; (2) Institutions; (3) Libraries; (4) On-line and electronic resources; (5) Bibliographies and syllabi; (6) News and events; (7) Acknowledgements.
Added 17 Dec 2006 (HL)
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China: Environment, Science, Technology & Health Section (US Embassy, Beijing, China)
(http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/sandt/).
Language: English.
Description: Some 200 reports on environment, science, technology and health issues, written by the Environment, Science and Technology section of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Included are some links to related information on the Web and a section on Chinese-language Internet in the PRC.
Site contents: (1) Beijing Environment, Science and Health Update (A biweekly newsletter from U.S. Embassy Beijing); (2) Recent Reports; (3) U.S. - China ESTH Cooperation; (4) ESTH Reports (Biotechnology; Energy; Environment; Resources Conservation; Environmental NGOs; Sustainable Development; Health; HIV/AIDS; Infrastructure and Economy; Internet and Computers; Population and Family Planning; Science Policy and Society; (5) Links.
Information supplied by David Cowhig, U.S. Embassy, Beijing, China.
Added 18 Aug 1998 (HL), last revised 12 Feb 2005 (HL)
- PRC Henan Rural County: No AIDS Here? (U.S. Embassy, Beijing, China, April 2000)
(http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/english/sandt/aidsshangsai.htm).
Language: English.
Resource type: Study.
Self description: "According to a recent press report, Shangcai County in east central Henan Province has many HIV infected blood donors. ESTOFF recently visited the county seat of Shangcai County. A Shangcai County television report, new signs on the epidemiological station and a display at the station indicated recent increased attention to the problem of HIV and blood donations. A worker at the epidemiological station told ESTOFF however, 'We don't have HIV in this county. This is because our prevention work has been so effective.'"
Self description: Includes Appendix: "Shanxi Police Close Underground Blood Bank: Many Donors, Blood Infected with HIV and Syphilis" (translated newspaper article).
Resource suggested by David Cowhig via H-Asia.
Added/revised on 30 Jun 2000 (HL)
The SARS Epidemic (Robert Y. Eng, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, USA)
(http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/sars.html).
Language: English.
Supplied note: "An annotated list of SARS-related resources, both general and those specific to affected Asian regions including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Vietnam. - RE"
Description: Part of East and South East Asia: an annotated directory of Internet resources.
Site contents: (1) General News & Information; (2) China; (3) Hong Kong; (4) Taiwan; (5) Singapore; (6) Vietnam.
Resource suggested via Asian Studies WWW Monitor (26 May 2003) by Robert Y. Eng, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, USA.
Added 30 May 2003 (HL)
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