History of Technology Volume 29

Ian Inkster is Research Professor of International History, Faculty of Humanities, The Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Ian Inkster, 'Introduction to volume 29'.; Special Issue: Kent Deng and Jerry Liu ed., Chinese Technological History: The Great Divergence.; Deng and Liu, 'Editorial Introduction'.; Patrick K. O'Brien, 'The Needham Question Updated: a Historiographical Survey and Elaboration'.; Jerry C.Y. Liu, 'Cultural Logics for the Regime of Useful Knowledge during the Ming and early Qing China c. 1400-1700'.; Harriet T. Zurndorfer, 'China and Science on the Eve of the 'Great Divergence' 1600-1800: A review of recent revisionist scholarship in Western languages'.; Kent Deng, 'Movers and Shakers of Knowledge in China during the Ming-Qing Period'.; Special Issue: Lissa Roberts and Ian Inkster ed., Mindful Hand.; Lissa Roberts, 'Introduction'.; Alette Fleischer, 'From darkness into light: The transformation of rock crystal into an object of adornment and revelation'.; Chandra Mukerji, 'The Mindful Hands of Peasants: Construction of an Eight-Lock Staircase at Fonseranes, 1678-1679'.; Simon Werrett, 'Enlightenment in Russian Hands: Instruments, Inventions, and Ivan Petrovich Kulibin in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg'.; Lissa Roberts, 'The mindful hand goes to Japan. Dutch-Japanese trade in the second half of the eighteenth century'.; Ian Inkster, 'Conclusions'.