| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 394 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Sinica Leidensia,
0169-9563 ;
v. 103
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Sinica Leidensia ; v. 103.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-385) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Dagmar Schäfer -- Political, social and economic factors affecting the transmission of knowledge in early modern China / William T. Rowe -- Silken strands: making technology work in China / Dagmar Schäfer -- Technological transmission in China and Europe: a comparative view / Pamela O. Long -- Picturing Yu controlling the flood: technology, ecology, and emperorship in Northern Song China / Heping Liu -- Sympathetic relations: foreign craftsmen at the Qing court / Luo Wenhua -- Symbolic technology politics / Wolfgang Lèfevre -- Ceramics for local and global markets: Jingdezhen's agora of technologies / Anne Gerritsen -- Temples, technology, and material culture in Shouzhou, Anhui / Susan Naquin -- Framing European technology in seventeenth-century China: rhetorical strategies in Jesuit paratexts / Joachim Kurtz -- Knowledge agora: the role of the officials / Matteo Valleriani -- Making technology history / Martina Siebert -- Biographer's view of craftsmanship / Martin Hofmann -- Chinese literati and the transmission of technological knowledge: the case of agriculture / Francesca Bray -- Two cultures speaking with one voice? Invention, ingenuity, and agricultural innovation in pre-industrial European and Chinese discourse / Marcus Popplow. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Technology -- Social aspects -- China -- History.
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Technology -- Social aspects. |
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China. |
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History. |
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Technological innovations -- China -- History.
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Technological innovations. |
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Learning and scholarship -- China -- History.
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Learning and scholarship. |
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Knowledge, Theory of -- History.
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Knowledge, Theory of. |
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Communication of technical information -- China -- History.
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Communication of technical information. |
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Communication in learning and scholarship -- China -- History.
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Communication in learning and scholarship. |
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Social change -- China -- History.
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Social change. |
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China -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte. |
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960-1912 |
| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Schäfer, Dagmar.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cultures of knowledge. Leiden ; Boston : Brill 9789004218444 (DLC) 2011037331 (OCoLC)754186782 |
| ISBN |
9789004219366 (electronic book) |
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9004219366 (electronic book) |
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9789004218444 (alkaline paper) |
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9004218440 (alkaline paper) |
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