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Technology, gender and history in imperial China : great transformations reconsidered /

<P>What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the wo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bray, Francesca
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2013.
Colección:Critical Asian scholarship ; 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: The power of technology -- Machines for living : domestic architecture and the engineering of the social order in late imperial China -- Instructive and nourishing landscapes : natural resources, people and the state in late imperial China -- Women's work and women's place : textiles and gender -- Structures of feeling : decorum, desire and a place of one's own -- Tales of fertility : reproductive narratives in late imperial medical cases -- Science, technique, technology : passages between matter and knowledge in imperial Chinese agriculture -- A gentlemanly occupation : the domestication of farming knowledge -- Agricultural illustrations : blueprint or icon? 
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