This collection of fourteen key papers deriving from CEEJA's second international conference exploring the Japanese history of technology, concentrates on the routes to acquiring and transmitting technical knowledge in Japan's modern era - from the very earliest endeavours in establishing opportunities for acquiring a technical education to the translation of foreign textbooks and manuals. Published in two volumes and thematically structured in three Parts, this wide-ranging work both complements and expands on the subject-matter contained in the first volume entitled Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan (2020). Part I includes 'Francois Leonce Verny and the Beginning of the "Modern" Technical Education in Japan', by NISHIYAMA Takahiro; 'The Role of the Ministry of Industry in Designing Engineering Education in Meiji Japan' by WADA Masanori; 'From Confucianism to Modern Technical Studies: Studying Mining at the Imperial College of Engineering (Kobu-dai-gakko)' by Erich Pauer. ' Part II includes 'Education of Female Silk Reeling Instructors in the Meiji Period' by SASHINAMI Akiko; 'Kikuchi Kyozo and the Implementation of Cotton Spinning Technology' by Janet Hunter; 'The Establishment and Curriculum of the Industrial Schools (shokko gakko) in Meiji Japan' by TODA Kiyoko. Part III includes 'Transfer of Technology via Technical Textbooks: From the West to China and Japan' by CHEN Hailian; 'Translation of European Books on Natural Sciences and Technology in China' by Christine MOLLMURATA; 'Translation of Foreign Textbooks for Education in Japan' by Ruselle Meade.
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| Editors' Notes on Translation |
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| Introduction: Books, Craftsmen, and Engineers: The Emergence of a Formalized Technical Education in a Modem Science-based Education System |
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1 The Translation of Technical Manuals from Western Languages in Nineteenth-century Japan: A Visual Tour |
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2 The Translation of Western Books on Natural Science and Technology in China and Japan: Early Conceptions of Electricity |
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3 Creating Intellectual Space for West-East and East-East Knowledge Transfer: Global Mining Literacy and the Evolution of Textbooks on Mining in Late Qing China, 1860-1911 |
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4 Francois Leonce Verny and the Beginning of the `Modern' Technical Education in Japan |
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5 The Role of the Ministry of Public Works in Designing Engineering Education in Meiji Japan: Reconsidering the Foundation of the Imperial College of Engineering (Kobu-dai-gakko) |
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6 From Student of Confucianism to Hands-on Engineer: The Case of Ohara Junnosuke, Mining Engineer |
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7 The Fall of the Imperial College of Engineering: From the Imperial College of Engineering (Kobu-dai-gakko) to the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial University, 1886 |
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8 Kikuchi Kyozo and the Implementation of Cotton-spinning Technology: The Career of a Graduate of the Imperial College of Engineering |
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9 The Training School for Railway Engineers: An Early Example of an Intra-firm Vocational School in Japan |
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10 The Training and Education of Female Silk-reeling Instructors in Meiji Japan |
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11 The Establishment and Curriculum of the Tokyo Shokko-gakko (Tokyo Vocational School) in Meiji Japan |
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12 The Development of Mining Schools in Japan |
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13 Science Education in Japanese Schools in the Late 1880s as Reflected in Students' Notes |
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14 Education in Mechanical Engineering in Early Universities and the Role of Their Graduates in Japan's Industrial Revolution: The University of Tokyo, the Imperial College of Engineering and the Imperial University |
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| List of Contributors |
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| Index |
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Erich Pauer, born in Vienna in 1943, specializes in Japanese economic history and the history of technology. He has taught at the Universities of Bonn and Marburg (Germany) and has published widely on these subjects. He is currently affiliated with the CEEJA (Centre Européen dÉtudes Japonaises dAlsace) in Colmar, France. Regine MATHIAS is Professor Emerita of Japanese History, at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. She has studied Japanese History and History at the Ruhr-University Bochum and Kyu- shuUniversity and obtained her PhD from the University of Vienna with a thesis on the development of wage labor in Japanese coal mines. After her retirement from the Ruhr-University, she is currently working at the Centre Européen dÉtudes Japonaises dAlsace (CEEJA). Her main field of research is Japanese social and economic history, with a focus on Japanese mining and labor history. She has published on labor in Japanese coal-mines, Japanese mining scrolls and their value as historical sources as well as on German-Japanese relations and gendered working patterns in prewar Japan.
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