Accessing Technical Education in Modern Japan /

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

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 opportunit...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (580 p.)
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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

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