Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Questioning Science in East Asian Contexts -- part 1 -- Science and Confucian Scholars -- chapter 1 -- Zhu Xi on Nature and Science* -- chapter 2 -- 'Analogical Extension' (leitui) in Zhu Xi's Methodology of 'Investigation of Things' (gewu) and 'Extension of Knowledge' (zhizhi)* -- chapter 3 -- Ideas about the Role of Heaven in Production Techniques in Song Yingxing's Heaven's Work in Opening Things (Tiangong kaiwu): 'Natural Theology of Industry' in Seventeenth-Century China?* -- chapter 4 -- Science and the Confucian Tradition in the Work of Chŏng Yak-yong* -- part 2 -- Social and Cultural Contexts of Science in East Asia -- chapter 5 -- Problems in the Study of the History of Chinese Science: An Early Review of the Field* -- chapter 6 -- Confucian Scholars and Specialized Scientific and Technical Knowledge in Traditional China, 1000-1700* -- chapter 7 -- Science and Religion in Traditional China* -- chapter 8 -- Science and Bureaucracy in Traditional China* -- part 3 -- Comparative Problems in the History of Science -- in East Asia -- chapter 9 -- The 'Why Not' Question of Chinese Science: The Scientific Revolution and Traditional Chinese Science* -- chapter 10 -- The Ideas of the Earth's Rotation in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century East Asia: Independent Development, Transmission from the West, and Chinese Forerunners* -- chapter 11 -- Problem of Meiji Japan in the History of Science in East Asia* -- chapter 12 -- The Problem of China in the Study of the History of Korean Science: Korean Science, Chinese Science, and East Asian Science* -- Bibliography -- Index.