Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Conventions -- Chinese Dynasties -- Introduction -- 1. The Jesuit Legacy -- 2. Recovering the Chinese Classics -- 3. The Rise of Imperial Chinese Manufacturing and Trade -- 4. Science and the Protestant Mission -- 5. From Textbooks to Darwin: Modern Science Arrives -- 6. Government Arsenals Spur New Technologies -- 7. The Displacement of Traditional Chinese Science and Medicine -- Appendixes: -- 1. Tang Mathematical Classics -- 2. "Science Outline Series," 1882-1898 -- 3. Table of Contents for the 1886 Primers for Science Studies -- 4. Twenty-three Fields of the Sciences in the 1886 Primers for Science Studies -- 5. Some Officially Selected Chinese Prize Essay Topics from the Shanghai Polytechnic -- 6. Some Translations of Chemistry, 1855-1873 -- 7. Partial Chronological List of Arsenals, etc., in China, 1861-1892 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.