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Picturing Technology in China : From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Golas, Peter J. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.