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Ancient Chinese inventions
China has given birth to numerous scientific and technological inventions, and for many centuries led the world in such innovations. Indeed, some of the most important inventions in the history of human civilization originated in China, not least the compass, gunpowder, paper and printing. This book provides an illustrated introduction to the many inventions to which China can lay claim.
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Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s
Science and Technology in Modern China, 1880s-1940s looks at the transnational routes for the development of science and technology in the first pivotal decades of modern China.
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Religion, technology, and the great and little divergences : China and Europe compared, c. 700-1800
In Religion, Technology, and the Great and Little Divergences Karel Davids analyses the influence of religious contexts on technological change in China and Europe between c.700 and 1800.
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A Cultural History of Modern Science in China
In A Cultural History of Modern Science in China, Elman has retold the story of the Jesuit impact on late imperial China, circa 1600-1800, and the Protestant era in early modern China from the 1840s to 1900 in a concise and accessible form ideal for the classroom.
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The crafting of the 10,000 things
The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this period was a series of texts by Song Yingxing (1587–1666?), a minor local official living in southern China. His Tiangong kaiwu, the longest and most prominent of these works, documents the extraction and processing of raw materials and the manufacture of goods essential to everyday life, from yeast and wine to paper and ink to boats, carts, and firearms. In The Crafting of the 10,000 Things, Dagmar Schäfer probes this fascinating text and the legacy of its author to shed new light on the development of scientific thinking in China, the purpose of technical writing, and its role in and effects on Chinese history. Meticulously unfolding the layers of Song’s personal and cultural life, Schäfer chronicles the factors that motivated Song to transform practical knowledge into written culture. She then examines how Song gained, assessed, and ultimately presented knowledge, and in doing so articulates this era’s approaches to rationality, truth, and belief in the study of nature and culture alike. Finally, Schäfer places Song’s efforts in conjunction with the work of other Chinese philosophers and writers, before, during, and after his time, and argues that these writings demonstrate collectively a uniquely Chinese way of authorizing technology as a legitimate field of scholarly concern and philosophical knowledge. Offering an overview of a thousand years of scholarship, The Crafting of the 10,000 Things explains the role of technology and crafts in a culture that had an outstandingly successful tradition in this field and was a crucial influence on the technical development of Europe on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
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Porcelain for the Emperor
The exquisite ceramic ware produced at the Imperial Porcelain
Manufactory at Jingdezhen in southern China functioned as a kind of
visual propaganda for the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) court.
Porcelain for the Emperor charts the career of bannerman
Tang Ying, a technocrat in the porcelain industry, through the
first half of the eighteenth century to uncover the wider role of
specialist officials in producing the technological knowledge and
distinctive artistic forms that were essential to cultural policies
of the Chinese state. Through fiscal management, technical
experimentation, and design, these imperial technocrats facilitated
rationalized manufacturing in precapitalist and preindustrial
society.
Drawing on museum collections and firsthand archaeological
evidence, as well as the voluminous Archive of the Imperial
Workshops , this book contributes new insights to scholarship
on global empires and the history of science and technology in
China. Readers will learn how the imperial state's intervention in
industry left a lingering imprint on modern China through its modes
of labor-intensive production, the division of domestic and foreign
markets, and, above all, a technocratic culture of
centralization.
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