Cultures of knowledge : technology in Chinese history /
Identifying four spheres of knowledge culture in the history of technology in China, this book offers an introduction to the transmission of knowledge and detailed contextual descriptions of individual technologies in China such as porcelain, silk, and agriculture.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
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Colección: | Sinica Leidensia ;
v. 103. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Dagmar Schäfer
- Political, social and economic factors affecting the transmission of knowledge in early modern China / William T. Rowe
- Silken strands: making technology work in China / Dagmar Schäfer
- Technological transmission in China and Europe: a comparative view / Pamela O. Long
- Picturing Yu controlling the flood: technology, ecology, and emperorship in Northern Song China / Heping Liu
- Sympathetic relations: foreign craftsmen at the Qing court / Luo Wenhua
- Symbolic technology politics / Wolfgang Lèfevre
- Ceramics for local and global markets: Jingdezhen's agora of technologies / Anne Gerritsen
- Temples, technology, and material culture in Shouzhou, Anhui / Susan Naquin
- Framing European technology in seventeenth-century China: rhetorical strategies in Jesuit paratexts / Joachim Kurtz
- The knowledge agora: the role of the officials / Matteo Valleriani
- Making technology history / Martina Siebert
- The biographer's view of craftsmanship / Martin Hofmann
- Chinese literati and the transmission of technological knowledge: the case of agriculture / Francesca Bray
- Two cultures speaking with one voice? Invention, ingenuity, and agricultural innovation in pre-industrial European and Chinese discourse / Marcus Popplow.