Kao Gong Ji
The Kaogong ji (考工记), translated variously as the Record of Trades, Records of Examination of Craftsman, Book of Diverse Crafts or Artificers' Record, is a classic work on science and technology in Ancient China, compiled sometime between the fifth and third centuries BCE and later included in the Zhou Li.
The study of Kao Gong Ji, Kao Gong Ji Jie, was published ca 1235 by 林希逸. It was followed by Dai Zhen (Kaogongji tu, 1746) and 程瑶田 (Kaogongji chuangwu xiaoji, ca 1805).
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- (in English) Wenren, Jun (2013). Ancient Chinese Encyclopedia of Technology: Translation and Annotation of the ‘Kaogong Ji’ (The Artificers Record). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
Zengjian Guan and Konrad Herrmann (2019) Kao Gong Ji: The World's Oldest Encyclopaedia of Technologies. Boston: Brill, 2019.
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Categories:
- Chinese classic texts
- Science and technology in China
- Zhou dynasty texts
- 5th-century BC books
- Qi (state)