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9781441136114

History of Technology Volume 29 Technology in China

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    9781441136114

  • ISBN10:

    1441136118

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-12-23
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

This volume consists of two special issues. The first considers Imperial China, the second the Mindful Hand.

Author Biography

Ian Inkster is Research Professor of International History, Faculty of Humanities, The Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Table of Contents

'Introduction to volume 29'.
Special Issue: Chinese Technological History: The Great Divergence.
'Editorial Introduction'.
'The Needham Question Updated: a Historiographical Survey and Elaboration'
'Cultural Logics for the Regime of Useful Knowledge during the Ming and early Qing China c. 1400-1700'
'China and Science on the Eve of the 'Great Divergence' 1600-1800: A review of recent revisionist scholarship in Western languages'
'Movers and Shakers of Knowledge in China during the Ming-Qing Period'
Special Issue: Mindful Hand.
Introduction
'From darkness into light: The transformation of rock crystal into an object of adornment and revelation'.
'The Mindful Hands of Peasants: Construction of an Eight-Lock Staircase at Fonseranes, 1678-1679'
'Enlightenment in Russian Hands: Instruments, Inventions, and Ivan Petrovich Kulibin in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg'
'The mindful hand goes to Japan. Dutch-Japanese trade in the second half of the eighteenth century'
'Conclusions'
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