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Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan

Terrence Jackson
Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 942–944.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911819001517
Published: 01 November 2019
... of Japan's variable measure of time and the adoption of Western timekeeping should be understood solely as the result of industrialization or modernization. Furthermore, her research on the interactions among scholars makes a modest but notable addition to the recent historiography on the importance...
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China on the Sea: How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China

Joanna Waley-Cohen
Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1129–1131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911812001453
Published: 01 November 2012
...-nilly through their dual function as objects of fashion and as timekeepers. This chapter and the following one, which addresses the construction of the missionary-designed, Western-style palaces of the Yuanmingyuan, “China's Versailles,” highlight the passion of the “Three Emperors,” Kangxi (1662–1722...
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The Trail of Time: Time Measurement with Incense Clocks in East Asia

John S. Major
Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1206–1207.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2059241
Published: 01 November 1994
... horology. Again many such devices are illustrated and discussed in this volume, along with accounts of their makers and users. This book is very clearly the work of an enthusiast; Bedini has been collecting and studying incense timekeeping devices for decades. He records here, one surmises, virtually...
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Classical Learning and Taoist Practices in Early Japan, with a Translation of Books XVI and XX of the Engi-shiki

Robert Borgen
Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (3): 587–588.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2056545
Published: 01 May 1986
... of Heian calendar making, 588 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES timekeeping, and rites conducted by the Yin-Yang Bureau. In this way, Bock adds depth to our picture of the Heian court. Previously, we had known of it largely through works by court litterateurs whose concerns were principally aesthetic or through...
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Heavenly Clockwork

E. Morton Grosser
Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (3): 374–375.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2050832
Published: 01 May 1961
... that it combined water power, which had been used before in timekeeping devices, with a mechanical escapement. The analysis of this escapement seems (to the reviewer) to be the least successful part of the reconstruction. Using Su Sung's clock as a base point, the authors extend their investigation backwards...
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Chung-kuo ching-chi-shih yen-chiu (Studies in Chinese economic history)

Ramon H. Myers
Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 37 (1): 110–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2053346
Published: 01 November 1977
... that during the late Han pe- because in his entire subsection on calendars riod the economy had become highly mone- and clocks, entitled "Timekeeping, and the tized: the state collected much of its taxes in cur- Time of Day and Year," he nowhere mentions rency; it paid workers mainly in money wages...
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Asia Pacific: Its Role in the New World Disorder

Carmen Barker Lemay
Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1207–1209.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2059242
Published: 01 November 1994
... with accounts of their makers and users. This book is very clearly the work of an enthusiast; Bedini has been collecting and studying incense timekeeping devices for decades. He records here, one surmises, virtually everything he has learned about them over the years; the book is full of interesting surprises...
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“Eastern Magnificence and European Ingenuity”: Clocks of Late Imperial China

D. E. Mungello
Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 213–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3096155
Published: 01 February 2003
... century, European clockmakers had developed the use of a pendulum, which added precision to timekeeping. By the 1580s, when Matteo Ricci and other European missionaries arrived in China with chiming clocks, referred to as zimingzhong (self-chiming bells), Chinese knowledge of horology had so evaporated...
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Uneasy Partnership: Competition and Conflict in U.S.–Japan Trade Relations

Jackson N. Huddleston, Jr
Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (3): 588–590.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2056546
Published: 01 May 1986
... 588 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES timekeeping, and rites conducted by the Yin-Yang Bureau. In this way, Bock adds depth to our picture of the Heian court. Previously, we had known of it largely through works by court litterateurs whose concerns were principally aesthetic or through studies by historians...
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Sources of Chinese Traditions

Vincent Y. C. Shih
Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (3): 372–374.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2050831
Published: 01 May 1961
..., gearing, jacks, and other sub-assemblies are for the most part very clear. Perhaps the most important thing about the clock, however, is the fact that it combined water power, which had been used before in timekeeping devices, with a mechanical escapement. The analysis of this escapement seems...
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The Mind of China: The Culture, Customs, and Beliefs of Traditional China

Jeffrey K. Riegel
Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 37 (1): 108–110.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2053345
Published: 01 November 1977
... published in 1941 (I, pp. 1- cepts about time. I believe I can safely say this 142), Ch'uan argues that during the late Han pe- because in his entire subsection on calendars riod the economy had become highly mone- and clocks, entitled "Timekeeping, and the tized: the state collected much of its taxes...
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Foreign Travel through a Woman' Eyes: Shan Shili's Guimao lüxing ji in Local and Global Perspective

Ellen Widmer
Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (4): 763–791.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911806001598
Published: 01 November 2006
... the railroads of Siberia, unable to push their way to the front row. Further, international timekeeping often comes up for comment in her travelogue, in passages such as the following: When it s noon at [Wolinskaya] it s 7:44 am in Saint Petersburg. The two are off by 256 minutes, and the difference...
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Controlling the Kanjisphere: The Rise of the Sino-Japanese Typewriter and the Birth of CJK

Thomas S. Mullaney
Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 725–753.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911816000577
Published: 01 August 2016
... athletic organizations. Whether granting medals at the Shanghai Ping-Pong competition in 1943, or serving as chief timekeeper at the 39th Japanese Navy track and field competition in May 1944, Yu's life had changed remarkably, as did those of countless others during the war ( Shenbao 1943a , 1943b...
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Building Shanghai, One Page at a Time: The Aesthetics of Installment Fiction at the Turn of the Century

Alexander des Forges
Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 781–810.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3591860
Published: 01 August 2003
... in this installment fiction clearly refer us to new technologies of timekeeping and mapmaking, such accuracy in measurement is primarily motivated by the formal demands of narrative technique. Just as the rail system of a busy metropolitan area relies heavily on split-second accuracy in switches, signals...
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Science and Medicine in Imperial China—The State of the Field

Nathan Sivin
Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (1): 41–90.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2056359
Published: 01 February 1988
... de fuyuan ” [Reconstruction of the inflow bowl clepsydra, a small popular timekeeping device of the Song period]. ZKY 2, no. 3: 225 –33. Lixing Wang . 1983 b. “ Guanyu minjian xiao li ” {On popular almanacs}. KW 10 : 45 – 68 . Qi Wang , ed. 1985 . Huang di nei jing zhuanti yanjiu...
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