PrefaceStanding Firm at Thirty: in Celebration to the 30th Anniversary of Chinese Society for the History of Science and TechnologyDisciplinary Development of the History of Science and Technology in ChinaConference AddressHistory of Science at the Beginning of the 21 th CenturyConfigurations Versus Equations: A Notational DifferenceZhu Shijie's Method of \"Four Unknowns\" as Inspiration for Wu Wen-TsunThe Combination of Mathematics and Music����The Comparative Study of the Origin of the Calculation of Pitch in Ancient China and GreecePythagoreanism in Edo--From ARAI Hakuseki to SAKUMA ShozanAlgorithm and Principles of Division of Fractions in Chinese Ancient LiteratureAn Exploration of the Original Sources of Lvlv ZuanyaoOn Delisle's Correspondence to and from China Through the Archives of the Pads ObservatoryThe Transmission of Western Astrolabe in Late Medieval ChinaTheories of Solar Motion in Chongzhen Lishu, Yuzhi Lixiang Kaocheng and Lixiang Kaocheng HoubianThe Vacancy of Error Ideas about the Calculation of the Chinese Traditional CalendarTentative Discussion on E. Diaz and the Influence of Tianwenlue on the Chinese AstronomyAn New Explorations of the Origin of Chinese AlchemyThe Making of Quanti XinlunThe Jesuit Joao de Loureiro ( 1717-1791 ) and the Medicinal Plants of ChinaThe Feuds of the Medical Sects in Republic of China and Colonial ModernityInvestigation on Traditional Spinning Wheels and Looms in Ze Zhou RegionTitles and Classifications of the Ancient Artisans in DunhuangGuo Songtao and the Western Telegram CivilizationOn the Manufacturing Technology of Traditional Curved-Beam Plough in ChinaStudy on Indigenous Sugar-making Technology in Naman Tun of Daxin CountyBritish Iron and Steel Technology's Transfer in Early Modem East Asia: The Case of Qingxi Iron Works, China and Kamaishi Iron Works, JapanHow the Government Deal with the Drought from 989 AD to 992 AD in the Northern Song DynastyTechnologized Science: Representational Theories vs. Epistemological EnginesA Shift in Interests to Science and Technology in the 11th ChinaTraditional Chinese Science Among Vietnamese Minorities: Preliminary ResultsFirst Steps of Russian-Chinese Scientific Cooperation Contacts : Pyotr Kozlov's Visit to Beijing in 1925Negative Effects of Patent on Technological Development: The Perspective of the Theory of Modem Technological ProcessThe Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the History of Science in China