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...John S. Major Mingtang and Buddhist Utopias in the History of the Astronomical Clock: The Tower, Statue and Armillary Sphere Constructed by Empress Wu . By Antonino Forte . Roma : Istituto Italiana per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente ; Paris : Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient , 1988 . xiv...

...Donald L. Baker Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 The Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean Astronomical Instruments and Clocks, 1380–1780 . By Joseph Needham , Lu Gwei-djen , John H. Combridge , and John S. Major . Antiquarian Horological Society Monograph 25...

...D. E. Mungello “Eastern Magnificence and European Ingenuity”: Clocks of Late Imperial China . By Catherine Pagani . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2001 . xvi, 286 pp. $47.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA...

...John S. Major The Trail of Time: Time Measurement with Incense Clocks in East Asia . By Silvio A. Bedini . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1994 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 1206 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Why is the author's indicator...

...Antonino Forte Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 Communications to the Editor To THE EDITOR: John S. Major's review of my book {Mingtang and Buddhist Utopias in the History of the Astronomical Clock: The Tower, Statue and Armillary Sphere Constructed by Empress Wu...

..., xv, 254. Illustrated, Notes, Chronological Table, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $12.50. Heavenly Cloc\wor\ is a study of Chinese power-driven clocks and astronomical models, focussed at a critical point in their development. The authors have chosen a radial, but not radially symmetrical point...

...-driven clocks and astronomical models, focussed at a critical point in their development. The authors have chosen a radial, but not radially symmetrical point of view, centered on the tower clock and world-model completed by the Sung dynasty bureaucrat and engineer Su Sung (1020-1101) in 1094...

...: COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL 215 century, these clockmakers were producing clocks in the style of chinoiserie, a European hybrid style that incorporated what Europeans thought were Chinese elements. Many of these clocks were reproduced in Chinese workshops, although the imperial workshops produced the most...

... language to reflect a broad mastery of the Chinese literature of these fields. No less important in the present volume are the sections on the history of the clock and of efficient equine harness. In this volume Needham's ordering of the material rises more consistently than before out of an unprecedented...

... had two stories rather than three. The book opens with an impassioned defense of Joseph Needham's position that the clock, properly speaking, was invented in China rather than in Europe several centuries later. Most people will agree that this was so in a manner of speaking: a number of impressive...

.... Another example is the great clock-tower erected in A.D. 1088 and described by the Northern Sung scholar Su Sung in a work written in 1092 (ch. 1, 11). This complex mechanism was important 424 to the history of state-sponsored astronomy in China, to the early history of horology because it featured...

... of chapter 3, which addresses imports of rice from Siam and of maize and “foreign yams” from the New World. Chapter 4 focuses on the importation of clocks, important for keeping time, of course, and long known to have attracted enormous interest in China. Zheng argues that clocks globalized China willy...

..., Western time was further linked to the driving Meiji rhetoric of bunmei kaika , or civilization and enlightenment, and “Western clocks came to be seen as the material embodiment of these new ideals” (p. 9). The first European clock that came to Japan—on a Portuguese ship in 1551—was greeted...

... or political violence in particular. JOHN FUH-SHENG HSIEH National Chengchi University The Trail of Time: Time Measurement with Incense Clocks in East Asia. By SILVIO A. B E D I N I . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. This remarkable book comprises a study in minute detail of a phenomenon of which...

... with a stick to mark each nād}ī. (p. 12) Instead of the beat of a drumstick, the opposition between nād}ī and dan}d}a reflects the distinction between clock and gnomon. An hour as given by a clock defines only a mean approximation of the true or apparent hour given by a gnomon. The two methods...

... on re-interviews and press reports, but this is unavoidably uneven. Regrettably, one of the most vivid case studies, that of the Chongqing Clock and Watch Factory, is scarcely updated at all. The case study approach captures the complexity and contradiction and on occasion even the drama of economic...

... for eighteen years and learnt tile work, glass-blowing, enamel work, clock-making, designing of buildings, stone-carving, foundry work, and guncasting. His arts and crafts were encouraged by 412 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES the Maharao, who sent him twice back to Europe to perfect his knowledge of glassmaking...

.... 1300, "with the implementation of mechanical clock time," when the day's 24 hours achieved "set regularity," affecting all areas of urban western European life, from the secularization of church time to the emergence of hourly wages. Phase four comes with nineteenth-century steam and steel: time zones...

... in Medicine was awarded to three American scientists for showing conclusively how our circadian rhythms are synchronized with the Earth's revolution. According to the Nobel Committee's statement, these researchers were able to peek inside our biological clocks with exquisite precision. Experimentation...

... the incense trail through a maze-like path marked with divisions of time; some incense seal "clocks" had sets of templates to account for the seasonally variable length of the five night watches of traditional Chinese horology. Again many such devices are illustrated and discussed in this volume, along...