Accessing Technical Education in Modern Japan / / ed. by Erich Pauer, Regine Mathias.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Akiko, Sashinami,; Fumiko, Okiharu,; Hailian, Chen,; Hunter, Janet,; Jun, Suzuki,; Kiyoko, Toda,; Masanori, Wada,; Mathias, Regine,; Meade, Ruselle,; Moll-Murata, Christine,; Naofumi, Nakamura,; Pauer, Erich,; Takahiro, Nishiyama,
• HerausgeberIn: Mathias, Regine,; Pauer, Erich,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (580 p.)

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 ‘François Léonce 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 (K?bu-dai-gakk?)’ by Erich Pauer. ‘ Part II includes ‘Education of Female Silk Reeling Instructors in the Meiji Period’ by SASHINAMI Akiko; ‘Kikuchi Ky?z? and the Implementation of Cotton Spinning Technology’ by Janet Hunter; ‘The Establishment and Curriculum of the Industrial Schools (shokko gakk?) 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Editors’ Notes on Translation -- Introduction. Books, Craftsmen and Engineers: The Emergence of a Formalized Technical Education in a Modern Science-based Education System -- VOLUME I -- 1 The Translation of Technical Manuals from Western Languages 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 ‘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 (Kobu-dai-gakko) -- 6 From Student of Confucianism to Hands-on Engineer: The Case of Ohara Junnosuke, Mining Engineer -- 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 -- VOLUME II -- 8. Kikuchi Kyozo and the Implementation of Cottonspinning Technology: 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 Training and Education of Female Silk-reeling Instructors in Meiji Japan -- 11 The Establishment and Curriculum of the Tokyo Shokko -gakko (Tokyo 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 Tokyo , the Imperial College of Engineering and the Imperial University -- List of Contributors -- Index