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Japan
University of Tokyo Press
1985
xxii + 251pp, index, bibliography, hardback, some soiling to dustjacket, inscription front free endpaper, internally very good. Examines and compares two major styles of learning: that of the West and that of China and its cultural sphere of influence. European scholarship, with its roots in ancient Babylonia, Greece, and the Islamic world, developed by emphasizing rhetoric, logic, and experimentation. In China, Japan, and other parts of Asia, the recording and classifying of observed phenomena constituted scholarship. The author examines in particular detail the Chinese scholarly tradition and asks why, after its early dominance in science and technology, it began in the 15th century to stagnate, leaving the West to progress toward its industrial and scientific revolutions. Using the Japanese case as a model, this book final chapter analyzes the social forms and intellectual content of modern science and scholarship in non-Western cultures. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 131285)
ISBN: 9780860083399
Related Subject Areas:
China
Education
Japan
Philosophy
Science
West
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Academic and Scientific Traditions in China
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