Graphics and text in the production of technical knowledge in China : the warp and the weft /

This collection offers a challenging new interpretation of technical knowledge in Chinese thought and practice. Conveying technical knowledge in China through charts, plans or drawings (tu) dates back to antiquity. Earlier studies focused on specialised forms of tu like maps or drawings of machines....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bray, Francesca, Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Vera, Métailie, Georges
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Colección:Sinica Leidensia ; v. 79.
Temas:
Communication of technical information > China > History.
Visual communication > China > History.
Technical illustration > History.
Cartography > China > History.
Information technique > Chine > Histoire.
Communication visuelle > Chine > Histoire.
Illustration technique > Histoire.
Cartographie > Chine > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > History.
Cartography
Communication of technical information
Technical illustration
Visual communication
China
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This collection offers a challenging new interpretation of technical knowledge in Chinese thought and practice. Conveying technical knowledge in China through charts, plans or drawings (tu) dates back to antiquity. Earlier studies focused on specialised forms of tu like maps or drawings of machines. Here, however, tu is identified in Chinese terms, viz. as a philosophical category of knowledge production: visual templates for action, spanning a range from mandala to modernist mapping projects, inseparable from writing but with distinctive powers of communication. A distinction is made between two principal types of tu : ritual/symbolic and representational, highlighting essential issues such as historical shifts in their significance, the relations between tu and political power, media for inscribing tu and the impact of printing, and encounters with the West.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 772 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789047422655
9047422651
ISSN:0169-9563 ;

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