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EALC 3900 Kitchen, Studio, Factory: Making in East Asia

Primary Sources: China

Title: Kao Gong Ji: The World’s Oldest Encyclopedia of Technologies 
Authors:Translated by Guan Zengjian and Konrad Herrmann
Publication: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2020

 

Title: Ancient Chinese Encyclopedia of Technology: Translation and Annotation of the Kaogong ji (The Artificer's Record) 
Authors: Translated by Jun Wenren
Publication: London: Routledge, 2017

 

Title: Brush Talks from Dream Brook,
Authors: Shen Kuo, 
translated by Wang Hong
Publication: Reading: Paths International Ltd, 2011

 

Title: Flowers in the Mirror
Author: Li, Ju-chen, 
translated by Lin Tai-yi
Publication: California: University of California Press, 1965

 

Title: The Monkey and the Inkpot 
Author: Selections from Carla Nappi

Publication: Harvard University Press, 2009

 

Title: Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century
Authors: Sung Ying-Hsing. T'ien-kung K'ai-wu; 
translated by Sun, E-Tu Zen, Sun, Shiou-Chuan
Publication: University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1966.

 

Title: Ben Cao Gang Mu: 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History
Note: Series of books; most recent is Volume IX, “Fowls, Domestic and Wild Animals, Human Substances”

 

Title: Compendium of materia medica *Only Book2 is available thru ILL
Author: Li Shizhen

Publication: Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2003

 

Title: Science and Civilisation in China 
Authors: Joseph Needham, et al.

Publication: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954
Note: Multi-volume work addressing topics as varied as “Vol. III. Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and Earth,” “Vol. IV. Physics and Physical Technology,” “Vol. V. Chemistry and Chemical Technology,” “Vol. VI. Biology and Biological Technology.”

 

Title: Recipes from the Garden of Contentment: Yuan Mei's Manual of Gastronomy 
Author: Yuan Mei

Note: English and Chinese Edition

 

Title: A Soup for the Qan: Chinese Dietary Medicine of the Mongol era as Seen in Hu Szu-hui's Yin-shan cheng-yao: Introduction, Translation, Commentary, and Chinese text
Author: Husihui;
 translated by Paul D. Buell and Eugene N. Anderson, with an appendix by Charles Perry
Publication: Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2016

 

Web Title: Qingshan Zhai: Premodern Chinese Recipes 
Retrieved from https://robbantoleno.com/

 

Web Title: Paintings of the traditional porcelain process
Note: Compilation of images related to porcelain manufacture in Qing China, useful for tracking down museums with relevant collections
Retrieved from 
https://derekau.net/ 

 

Further web info in Chinese: https://new.shuge.org/view/tao_ye_tu_juan/#to-tab-1-2
Note: Illustration for manufacturing and exporting process of porcelain in Jingdezhen, China in 18th century
Retrieve from https://new.shuge.org/

 

Title: Twenty Illustrations of the Manufacture of Porcelain, 1735–43 
Author: Tang Ying

Retrieved from https://gotheborg.com/