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Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History: 103
Author(s): Dagmar Schäfer (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 2 May 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 404 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004218440
- ISBN-13: 9789004218444
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This book provides a fascinating overview of current research on technology and its transmission in China. It combines in-depth case studies concerned with the material culture of various historical periods with a comparative perspective of parallel European developments. The book presents the results of a joint research venture in a coherent and very readable manner. It is a must not only for experts in Chinese history, but for everyone who is interested in understanding how technology evolves in dependence on social, cultural and political contexts.” – Professor Dr. Jürgen Renn, Executive Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Honorary Professor, History of Science, Humboldt-University Berlin, Honorary Professor, Physics, Free University Berlin, Adjunct Professor Philosophy and Physics, Boston University
About the Author
Dagmar Schäfer heads a Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Her latest book is The Crafting of the 10,000 Things, Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth Century China, (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2011).
