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).
- VOLUME I
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- Acknowledgements
- Editors’ Notes on Translation
- Introduction: Books, Craftsmen, and Engineers: The Emergence of a Formalized Technical Education in a Modern Science-based Education System
- 1. The Translation of Technical Manuals from WesternLanguages in Nineteenth-century Japan: A Visual Tour
- 2. The Translation of Western Books on Natural Science and Technology in China and Japan: Early Conceptions of Electricity
- 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
- 4. François Léonce Verny and the Beginning of the ‘Modern’ Technical Education in Japan
- 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 (Kōbu-dai-gakkō)
- 6. From Student of Confucianism to Hands-on Engineer: The Case of Ōhara Junnosuke, Mining Engineer
- 7. The Fall of the Imperial College of Engineering: From the Imperial College of Engineering (Kōbu-dai-gakkō) to the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial University, 1886
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- VOLUME II
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- 8. Kikuchi Kyōzō and the Implementation of Cotton-spinningTechnology: The Career of a Graduate of the Imperial College of Engineering
- 9. The Training School for Railway Engineers: An Early Example of an Intra-firm Vocational School in Japan
- 10. The Training and Education of Female Silk-reeling Instructors in Meiji Japan
- 11. The Establishment and Curriculum of the Tōkyō Shokkō-gakkō (Tōkyō Vocational School) in Meiji Japan
- 12. The Development of Mining Schools in Japan
- 13. Science Education in Japanese Schools in the Late 1880s as Reflected in Students’ Notes
- 14. Education in Mechanical Engineering in Early Universities and the Role of Their Graduates in Japan’s Industrial Revolution: The University of Tōkyō, the Imperial College of Engineering and the Imperial University
- List of Contributors
- Index
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