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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in East Asia
DESCRIPTION
This guide was prepared to support the course History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in East Asia
The two primary aims of this course are to read important works in the history of science and to explore how
science was used to produce various bodies of knowledge about people, their environments, and their
technologies in East Asia. The first half of the semester will focus on old and new research about science within
the Qing (China), Joseon (Korea), and Tokugawa (Japan) regimes. The second half of the semester will examine
more popular uses and interpretations of science in twentieth-century East Asia. This course is organized into
two-week units. In the first week of a unit, we will read and discuss a few thoughtful articles with a specific
topical or theoretical focus. In the following week, we will continue the discussion by focusing on specific case
studies in the histories of science, technology, medicine, or the environment in East Asia. Assessment will be
based on short reading response papers, engagement in class discussion, and a semester-long research project on
a topic chosen by the student.
GENERAL RESOURCES
- Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains 787,165 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present... In addition to entries compiled since 1997, the online BAS includes the full data of all of the printed volumes of the BAS issued from the 1971 up to the 1991 volumes (published in 1997)... Through the 1991 printed volume, the BAS included citations to Western-language periodical articles, monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Monographs published since 1992, however, have not been added to the database, and users seeking such monographs are urged to consult other general resources and databases such as WorldCat.. Use Bibliography of Asian Studies in the NEW EBSCO user interface.
About this Library Guide
The aim of this Library Guide is to familiarize students with the resources and research approaches available to them through the University of Illinois Library. The libguide is broken down into three sections (China, Japan, and Korea), with resources for each area on the individual pages.