Title Cultures of Knowledge : Technology in Chinese History

Published Leiden : BRILL, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (402 pages) Series Sinica Leidensia Sinica Leidensia. Contents 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 Comparative View; Imperial Court; Picturing Yu Controlling the Flood: Technology, Ecology, and Emperorship in Northern Song China; Sympathetic Relations: Foreign Craftsmen at the Qing Court; Symbolic Technology Politics; Agora; Ceramics for Local and Global Markets: Jingdezhen's Agora of Technologies Summary 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 Subject 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 Communication in learning and scholarship Communication of technical information Intellectual life Knowledge, Theory of Learning and scholarship Social change Social conditions Technological innovations Technology -- Social aspects SUBJECT China -- Intellectual life -- 1644-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024143 China -- Intellectual life -- 960-1644. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024142 China -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024178 Subject China Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9789004219366 9004219366

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