Author(s): Dagmar Schäfer (ed.)
Series: Sinica Leidensia, 103
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 402
Cultures of Knowledge......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Internode......Page 29
Political, Social and Economic Factors Affecting the Transmission of Technical Knowledge in Early Modern China......Page 33
Silken Strands: Making Technology Work in China......Page 53
Technological Transmission in China and Europe: A Compa rative View......Page 83
Imperial Court......Page 95
Picturing Yu Controlling the Flood: Technology, Ecology, and Emperorship in Northern Song China......Page 99
Sympa thetic Relations: Foreign Craftsmen at the Qing Court......Page 135
Symbolic Technology Politics......Page 155
Agora......Page 165
Ceramics for Local and Global Markets: Jingdezhen’s Agora of Technologies......Page 169
Temples, Technology, and Material Culture in Shouzhou 壽州, Anhui......Page 193
Framing European Technology in Seventeenth-Century China: Rhetorical Strategies in Jesuit Paratexts......Page 217
The Knowledge Agora: The Role of the Officials......Page 241
Scholarly Arts......Page 257
Making Technology History......Page 261
The Biographer’s View of Craftsmanship......Page 291
Chinese Literati and the Transmission of Technological Knowledge: The Case of Agriculture......Page 307
Two Cultures Speaking with One Voice? Invention, Ingenuity, and Agricultural Innova tion in Pre-Industrial European and Chinese Discourse......Page 335
Chinese Dynasties......Page 353
Bibliography......Page 357
Index......Page 395
