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 towards the end of the Spring and Autumn period, and forms part of the Rites of Zhou.

The study of Kao Gong Ji, Kao Gong Ji Jie, was published ca 1235 by Lin Xiyi 林希逸. It was followed by Dai Zhen (Kaogongji tu, 1746) and Cheng Yaotian 程瑶田 (Kaogongji chuangwu xiaoji, ca 1805).

Translations
  • (in English) Wenren, Jun (2013). Ancient Chinese Encyclopedia of Technology: Translation and Annotation of the ‘Kaogong Ji’ (The Artificers Record). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
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