Picturing technology in China : from earliest times to the nineteenth century /

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Although the history of technological and scientific illustrations is a well-established field in the West, scholarship on the much longer Chinese experience is still undeveloped. This work by Peter Golas is a short, illustrated overview tracing the subject to pre-Han inscriptions but focusing mainl...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Golas, Peter J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Mechanical drawing > China > History.
Art, Chinese.
Technical illustration > History.
Technology in art.
Dessin industriel > Chine > Histoire.
Art chinois.
Illustration technique > Histoire.
Technologie dans l'art.
ART > Techniques > General.
ART > Subjects & Themes > General.
Mechanical drawing.
Technical illustration.
China.
Electronic books.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1: Early Graphics in China
  • 2: Han to Tang
  • Plates 1-8
  • 3: Song and Yuan
  • 4: The New Confucian Paradigm
  • 5: Late Ming and The Exploitation of the Works of Nature
  • 6: Qing Developments
  • Plates 9-16
  • Closing Comments
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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