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Cultures of Knowledge : Technology in Chinese History

1st ed.

Leiden : BRILL, 2014 [©2012.]

1 online resource (402 pages)

Englisch

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Erscheint auch als: Cultures of knowledge (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-90-04-21936-6

978-90-04-21844-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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Basisklassifikation: 02.10 (Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft) ; 71.43 (Technologische Faktoren) <Soziologie> ; 02.01 (Geschichte der Wissenschaft und Kultur)

*China ; Technologie ; Wissens- und Technologietransfer ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Communication in learning and scholarship-China-History ; Communication of technical information-China-History ; Knowledge, Theory of-History ; Learning and scholarship-China-History ; Social change-China-History ; Technological innovations-China-History ; Technology-Social aspects-China-History ; China-Intellectual life-1644-1912 ; China-Intellectual life-960-1644 ; China-Social conditions

Communication in learning and scholarship ; China ; History ; Communication of technical information ; China ; History ; Knowledge, Theory of ; History ; Learning and scholarship ; China ; History ; Social change ; China ; History ; Technological innovations ; China ; History ; Technology ; Social aspects ; China ; History ; Electronic books ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; China / Intellectual life

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.

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Intro -- Cultures of Knowledge -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Internode -- Political, Social and Economic Factors Affecting the Transmission of Technical Knowledge in Early Modern China -- Silken Strands: Making Technology Work in China -- Technological Transmission in China and Europe: A Compa rative View -- Imperial Court -- Picturing Yu Controlling the Flood: Technology, Ecology, and Emperorship in Northern Song China -- Sympa thetic Relations: Foreign Craftsmen at the Qing Court -- Symbolic Technology Politics -- Agora -- Ceramics for Local and Global Markets: Jingdezhen's Agora of Technologies -- Temples, Technology, and Material Culture in Shouzhou 壽州, Anhui -- Framing European Technology in Seventeenth-Century China: Rhetorical Strategies in Jesuit Paratexts -- The Knowledge Agora: The Role of the Officials -- Scholarly Arts -- Making Technology History -- The Biographer's View of Craftsmanship -- Chinese Literati and the Transmission of Technological Knowledge: The Case of Agriculture -- Two Cultures Speaking with One Voice? Invention, Ingenuity, and Agricultural Innova tion in Pre-Industrial European and Chinese Discourse -- Chinese Dynasties -- Bibliography -- Index.