Science in East Asia

Cullen, Christopher. Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China: The Zhou bi suan jing. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Includes an excellent introduction.

Darwin, Charles. Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. 2 vols. London: Murray, 1868.

Furth, Charlotte. A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History, 960–1665. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. On medical care for women and childbirth, with a chapter on women as healers.

Hsu, Elisabeth, ed. Innovation in Chinese Medicine. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001. A good collection of conference papers.

Jeon Sang-woon. Science and Technology in Korea: Traditional Instruments and Techniques. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1974. Revised as A History of Science in Korea. Seoul: Jimoondang, 1998.

Libbrecht, Ulrich. Chinese Mathematics in the Thirteenth Century. The Shu-shu chiu-chang of Ch'in Chiu-shao. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1973.

Lloyd, G. E. R., and Nathan Sivin. The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Comparisons that use an integrative methodology.

Martzloff, Jean-Claude. A History of Chinese Mathematics. Translated by Stephen L. Wilson. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1997. Translation of Histoire des mathématiques chinoises. Paris: Masson, 1988.

Nakayama, Shigeru. A History of Japanese Astronomy: Chinese Background and Western Impact. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969. Offers many important insights into Chinese astronomy as well.

Needham, Joseph, et al. Science and Civilisation in China. 22 vols. to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954–. Magisterial survey, partly outdated.

Scheid, Volker. Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. Important, well-informed study.

Sivin, Nathan. Science in Ancient China: Researches and Reflections. Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum, 1995. Selected essays.

Sugimoto, Masayoshi, and David Swain. Science and Culture in Traditional Japan: A.D. 600–1854. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1978.