| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 772 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Sinica Leidensia,
0169-9563 ;
v. 79
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Sinica Leidensia ; v. 79.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The powers of 'tu' / Francesca Bray -- La représentation visuelle dans les pratiques pyro-ostéo-mantiques dans la Chine archaïque / Olivier Venture -- Placed into the right position : etymological notes on 'tu' and congeners / Wolfgang Behr -- Time, space and orientation : figurative representations of the sexagenary cycle in ancient and medieval China / Marc Kalinowski -- Communication by design : two silk manuscripts of diagrams (tu) from Mawangdui Tomb Three / Donald Harper -- Picturing or diagramming the universe / Wu Hung -- Mapless mapping : did the maps of the Shan hai jing ever exist? / Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann -- The tables (biao) in Sima Qian's Shi ji : rhetoric and remembrance / Griet Vankeerberghen -- The Avatamsaka-sûtra as a 'bodhi mandala text' / Hermann-Josef Röllicke -- Diagrams as an architecture by means of words : the Yanji tu / Michael Lackner -- Imagining practice : sense and sensuality in early Chinese medical illustration / Vivienne Lo -- Geometrical diagrams in traditional Chinese mathematics / Alexei Volkov -- Woodcut illustration : a general outline / Michela Bussotti -- The representation of plants : engravings and paintings / Georges Métailié -- Agricultural illustrations : blueprint or icon? / Francesca Bray -- 'Like obtaining a great treasure' : the illustrations in Song Yingxing's The Exploitation of the Works of Nature / Peter J. Golas -- Song Yingxing's illustrations of iron production / Donald B. Wagner -- The body revealed : the contribution of forensic medicine to knowledge and representation of the skeleton in China / Catherine Despeux -- New maps for the modernizing state : western cartographic knowledge and its application in 19th and 20th century China / Iwo Amelung. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communication of technical information -- China -- History.
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Communication of technical information. |
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China. |
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History. |
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Visual communication -- China -- History.
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Visual communication. |
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Technical illustration -- History.
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Technical illustration. |
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Cartography -- China -- History.
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Cartography. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Bray, Francesca.
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Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Vera.
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Métailie, Georges.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Graphics and text in the production of technical knowledge in China. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 9789004160637 9004160639 (DLC) 2007038666 (OCoLC)173248957 |
| ISBN |
9789047422655 (electronic book) |
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9047422651 (electronic book) |
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9789004160637 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004160639 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004160637.i-772 |
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