VOLUME I -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Editors' Notes on Translation -- Introduction: Books, Craftsmen, and Engineers: The Emergence of a Formalized Technical Education in a Modern Science-based Education System -- 1. The Translation of Technical Manuals from WesternLanguages in Nineteenth-century Japan: A Visual Tour -- 2. The Translation of Western Books on Natural Science and Technology in China and Japan: Early Conceptions of Electricity -- 3. Creating Intellectual Space for West-East and East-East Knowledge Transfer: Global Mining Literacy and the Evolution of Textbooks on Mining in Late Qing China, 1860-1911 -- 4. François Léonce Verny and the Beginning of the 'Modern' Technical Education in Japan -- 5. The Role of the Ministry of Public Works in Designing Engineering Education in Meiji Japan: Reconsidering the Foundation of the Imperial College of Engineering (Kōbu-dai-gakkō) -- 6. From Student of Confucianism to Hands-on Engineer: The Case of Ōhara Junnosuke, Mining Engineer -- 7. The Fall of the Imperial College of Engineering: From the Imperial College of Engineering (Kōbu-dai-gakkō) to the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial University, 1886 -- Back Cover -- VOLUME II -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 8. Kikuchi Kyōzō and the Implementation of Cotton-spinningTechnology: The Career of a Graduate of the Imperial College of Engineering -- 9. The Training School for Railway Engineers: An Early Example of an Intra-firm Vocational School in Japan -- 10. The Training and Education of Female Silk-reeling Instructors in Meiji Japan -- 11. The Establishment and Curriculum of the Tōkyō Shokkō-gakkō (Tōkyō Vocational School) in Meiji Japan -- 12. The Development of Mining Schools in Japan.

13. Science Education in Japanese Schools in the Late 1880s as Reflected in Students' Notes -- 14. Education in Mechanical Engineering in Early Universities and the Role of Their Graduates in Japan's Industrial Revolution: The University of Tōkyō, the Imperial College of Engineering and the Imperial University -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.