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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Colección: | Critical Asian scholarship ;
10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?