16 Mar 2007

History of Chinese science and technology - online works by Don Wagner
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Copenhagen, Denmark
Self-description: "PUBLICATIONS BY DON WAGNER. These publications concern Chinese science, technology, history, archaeology, and language. Books, Articles, Reviews and short notices, Web publications."
Site contents: [The list below presents only these of Dr Wagner's numerous paper and electronic works which are available, either partially or fully in an online format - ed.]

BOOKS
* Union catalogue of East Asian materials in Scandinavian libraries: Preliminary Chinese and Japanese title catalogues. Zug, Switzerland: Inter Documentation Company, 1981. 98 microfiches. [publisher's blurb]
* Dabieshan: Traditional Chinese iron-production techniques practised in southern Henan in the twentieth century. (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies monograph series, no. 52). London & Malmoe: Curzon Press, 1985. 113 pp. [publisher's blurb]
* Toward the reconstruction of ancient Chinese techniques for the production of malleable cast iron (East Asian Institute occasional papers, 4). Copenhagen: East Asian Institute, University of Copenhagen, 1989. 72 pp. [web version]
* Oslo University Library: Catalogue of older Chinese books (UBO Skrifter, 22). Oslo: University Library, 1992. 78 pp. [web version]
* Iron and steel in ancient China (Handbuch der Orientalistik, IV:9). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993. 589 pp. [publisher's blurb]
* The traditional Chinese iron industry and its modern fate. With a preface by Peter Nolan. Copenhagen & London: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies & Curzon Press, 1997. 128 pp. [web version]
* A Classical Chinese reader: The Han shu biography of Huo Guang, with notes and glosses for students. Richmond, Sussex: Curzon Press, 1998. 208 pp. [web version]
* The state and the iron industry in Han China. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2001. 160 pp. [publisher's blurb]
* A Mencius reader: For beginning and advanced students of Classical Chinese. Copenhagen: NIAS Press (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies), 2004. 160 pp. [web version]
* Science and civilisation in China. Vol. 5: Chemistry and chemical technology. Part 11: Ferrous metallurgy. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, mid-2007. [publisher's blurb]

ARTICLES
* "Liu Hui and Tsu Keng-chih on the volume of a sphere", Chinese science, 1978, 3: 59-79. [web version]
* "Doubts concerning the attribution of Liu Hui's commentary on the Chiu-chang suan-shu", Acta Orientalia, 1978, 39: 199-212. [web version]
* "An ancient Chinese derivation of the volume of a pyramid: Liu Hui, third century A.D.", Historia mathematica, 1979, 6: 164-188. [web version]
* "A proof of the Pythagorean theorem by Liu Hui (third century A.D.)", Historia mathematica, 1985, 12: 71-73. [web version]
* "The dating of the Chu graves of Changsha: The earliest iron artifacts in China?", Acta Orientalia, 1987, 48: 111-156. [web version]
* "Stobejerns metallurgi og lidt om kinesisk stobejern", 53 pp. in Jern: Fremstilling, nedbrydning og bevaring. Fortryk af forelūsninger til Nordisk Videreuddannelse af Konservatorer, Kobenhavn, 17-28 august 1987. Kobenhavn: Nationalmuseet, Bevaringssektionen, 1987. ("The metallurgy of cast iron, with some notes on Chinese cast iron", two lectures for museum conservators). [web version]
* "Ancient carburization of iron to steel: A comment", Archeomaterials, 1990, 4.1: 111-117; erratum, 4.2: 118. [web version]
* "The language of the ancient Chinese state of Wu", East Asian Institute occasional papers (University of Copenhagen), 1990, 6: 161-176. [web version]
* "Jern og stal i oldtidens Kina", Polhem: Tidskrift for teknikhistoria, 1990, 8.1: 2-37. ("Iron and steel in ancient China"). [web version]
* "The cast iron lion of Ts'ang-chou", Needham Research Institute newsletter, no. 10, June 1991, pp. 2-3. [web version]
"China: Iron: Early", article in The dictionary of art, London: Macmillan, 1996. 1500 words. [publisher's blurb]
* "Chinese monumental iron castings", Journal of East Asian archaeology, 2000, 2.3/4: 199-224 [web version]
* "Monumentaler Eisenguss in China", pp. 123-130 in China, eine Wiege der Weltkultur: 5000 Jahre Erfindungen und Entdeckungen, hrsg. v. Arne Eggebrecht, Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 1994. (Exhibition catalogue.) Translation of previous. [web version]
* "The traditional Chinese iron industry and its modern fate", Chinese science, 1995, 12: 138-161. [web version]
* "Copperworks no. 2 in Kaifeng, China", Journal of the Historical Metallurgy Society, 1995, 29.2: 113-116. [Published 1997]. [web version]
* "The earliest use of iron in China", pp. 1-9 in Metals in antiquity, ed. by Suzanne M. M. Young, A. Mark Pollard, Paul Budd, and Robert A. Ixer (BAR International series, 792), Oxford: Archaeopress, 1999. [web version]
* "La tecnologia vista attraverso l'esempio della metallurgia del ferro" [Technology as seen through the case of ferrous metallurgy in Han China], tr. by Fabrizio Pregadio, forthcoming in Enciclopedia di Storia della Scienza [Encyclopedia of the History of Science], vol. III: Le scienze extraeuropee [Extra-European Sciences], part (a): Scienza in Cina [Science in China], ed. by Karine Chemla, in cooperation with Francesca Bray, Fu Daiwie, Huang Yi-Long, and Georges Metailie. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. [web version]
* "Blast furnaces in Song-Yuan China", East Asian science, technology, and medicine, 2001, 18: 41-74. [web version]
* "The administration of the iron industry in eleventh-century China", Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient, 2001, 44.2: 175-197. [web version]
* "The state ironworks in Zunhua, Hebei, 1403-1581", Late Imperial China, 2005, 26.2: 68-88. [web version]
* "Iron production in three Ming texts: Tie ye zhi, Guangdong xinyu, and Tian gong kai wu", pp. 172-188 in Studies on ancient Chinese scientific and technical texts: Proceedings of the 3rd ISACBRST, March 31 - April 3, 2003, Tuebingen, Germany, ed. by Hans Ulrich Vogel, Christine Moll-Murata, and Gao Xuan, Zhengzhou: Elephant Press, 2006. [Third International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Books and Records of Science and Technology]. [web version]

REVIEWS AND SHORT NOTICES
* "The stone drums of Qin" (essay review of G. L. Mattos: The stone drums of Ch'in, Nettetal 1988), Acta Orientalia, 1990, 51: 241-256. [web version]
* Review of William Rostoker and Bennet Bronson: Pre-industrial iron: Its technology and ethnology, Philadelphia 1990, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Leiden), 1993, 36: 304-308. [web version]
* "The beginning of iron in China", EAANnouncements (East Asian Archaeology Network), Autumn 1995, no. 17, p. 6. [web version]
* "The 7th International Conference on the the History of Science in China, Shenzhen, 16-20 January 1996", Bulletin of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine, 1.2: 11-12. [web version]
* "Thirteenth-century Chinese pelletising kilns? Ha Law Wan, Hong Kong", HMS news (Historical Metallurgy Society), Spring 1996, no. 36, pp. 6-8. Abridged version in EAANnouncements (East Asian Archaeology Network), 1996, no. 19, p. 17. [web version]
* Review of Peter Golas: Science and civilisation in China, vol. 5, part 13: Mining, Cambridge University Press 1999, East Asian science, technology, and medicine (Tuebingen), 2002 (publ. 2003), 19: 116-119. [web version]
* Review of Martha Lamberg-Karlovsky (ed.): The breakout: The origins of civilization, Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 2000, Journal of World History, 2003, 14.4: 551-553. [web version]
* Review of H. T. Huang: Science and civilisation in China, vol. 6, part 5: Fermentations and food science, Cambridge University Press 2000, British Journal for the History of Science, 2005, 38.1: 103-4. [web version]
* Review of Karine Chemla and Guo Shuchun: Les neuf chapitres: Le classique mathematique de la Chine ancienne et ses commentaires, Centaurus, 2006, 48.4: 319-322. [web version]

WEB PUBLICATIONS
* "Early iron in China, Korea, and Japan". Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Los Angeles, 25-28 March 1993. 14 pp. typescript, unpublished. [web version]
* "The casting of iron woks in Guangdong, China, in 1840". Poster presentation, Founders, smiths and platers: International Conference on metal forming and finishing from the earliest times, Oxford, 20-24 September, 1999. [web version]
* Klassisk kinesisk laesebog: Li Guangs biografi i Shi ji, med noter og gloser for studerende. 92 s. [web version]
* "Some Chinese steelmaking methods". Poster presentation, Metallurgy - a touchstone for cross-cultural interaction, British Museum, London, 28-30 April 2005. [web version]
* A Classical Chinese Reader: The 'Memoir on the Eastern Barbarians' in Hou Han shu, with notes and glosses for students of Chinese and Korean. Draft, 14 March 2007. [web version]

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