ISBN:
9780415639569
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (297 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Asia's Transformations / Critical Asian Scholarship
Series Statement:
Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Technology, Gender and China’s Great Transformations
DDC:
303.48/30820951
Keywords:
Technological innovations - China - History
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Technological innovations - China - History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world, China entered an era of technical lethargy and decline. But how are we to reconcile this tale, which portrays China in the Ming and Qing dynasties as a dying giant that had outgrown its own strength, with the wealth of counterevidence affirming that the country remained rich, vigorous and powerful at
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Introduction: the power of technology; Section I Material foundations of the moral order; 1 Machines for living: domestic architecture and the engineering of the social order in late imperial China; 2 Instructive and nourishing landscapes: natural resources, people and the state in late imperial China; Section II Gynotechnics: crafting womanly virtues; 3 Women's work and women's place: textiles and gender
Description / Table of Contents:
4 Structures of feeling: decorum, desire and a place of one's own5 Tales of fertility: reproductive narratives in late imperial medical cases; Section III Androtechnics: the writing-brush, the plough and the nature of technical knowledge; 6 Science, technique, technology: passages between matter and knowledge in imperial Chinese agriculture; 7 A gentlemanly occupation: the domestication of farming knowledge; 8 Agricultural illustrations: blueprint or icon?; References; Index
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