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: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mechanical drawing > China > History.
Chinese art
Technical illustration > History.
Technology in art.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Early graphics in China
  • Han to Tang : realism on the rise
  • Song and Yuan : a golden age
  • The new Confucian paradigm
  • Late Ming and The exploitation of the works of nature
  • Qing developments : roads not taken
  • Closing comments.

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