Cultures of knowledge [[electronic resource] ] : technology in Chinese history / / edited by Dagmar Schafer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462185403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-85584-4; 90-04-21936-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (402 p.)
• Collana: Sinica Leidensia, , 0169-9563 ; ; v. 103
• Altri autori (Persone): SchäferDagmar
• Disciplina: 303.48/30951; 303.4830951
• Soggetti: Communication in learning and scholarship - China - History; Communication of technical information - China - History; Knowledge, Theory of - History; Learning and scholarship - China - History; Social change - China - History; Technological innovations - China - History; Technology - Social aspects - China - History; Electronic books.; China Intellectual life 1644-1912; China Intellectual life 960-1644; China Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Dagmar Schäfer -- Introduction / Dagmar Schäfer -- Internode / Dagmar Schäfer -- Political, Social and Economic Factors Affecting the Transmission of Technical Knowledge in Early Modern China / William T. Rowe -- Silken Strands: Making Technology Work in China / Dagmar Schäfer -- Technological Transmission in China and Europe: A Comparative View / Pamela O. Long -- Imperial Court / Dagmar Schäfer -- Picturing Yu Controlling the Flood: Technology, Ecology, and Emperorship in Northern Song China / Heping Liu -- Sympathetic Relations: Foreign Craftsmen at the Qing Court / Luo Wenhua -- Symbolic Technology Politics / Wolfgang ; Lefèvre -- Agora / Dagmar Schäfer -- Ceramics for Local and Global Markets: Jingdezhen’s Agora of Technologies / Anne Gerritsen -- Temples, Technology, and Material Culture in Shouzhou 壽州, Anhui / Susan Naquin -- Framing European Technology in Seventeenth-Century China: Rhetorical Strategies in Jesuit Paratexts / Joachim Kurtz -- The Knowledge Agora: The Role of the Officials / Matteo Valleriani -- Scholarly Arts / Dagmar Schäfer -- Making Technology History / Martina Siebert -- The Biographer’s View of Craftsmanship / Martin Hofmann -- Chinese Literati and the Transmission of Technological Knowledge: The Case of Agriculture / Francesca Bray -- Two Cultures Speaking with One Voice? Invention, Ingenuity, and Agricultural Innovation in Pre-Industrial European and Chinese Discourse / Marcus Popplow -- Chinese Dynasties / Dagmar Schäfer -- Bibliography / Dagmar Schäfer -- Index / Dagmar Schäfer.
• Sommario/riassunto: Looking at knowledge transmission as a cultural feature, this book isolates and examines the individual factors that affect knowledge in the making and created uniquely Chinese cultures of knowledge. The volume is organized into four sections: Internode, Imperial Court, Agora, and Scholarly Arts. Each has a theoretical introduction, followed by two core contributions from experts in Chinese history. The section concludes with a ‘reflection’ by a historian of Western Technology who scrutinizes each sphere and identifies the points that reflect universal technological experience. The combination of broadly sketched theoretical introductions and detailed core contributions provides an unparalleled insight into pre-modern Chinese history from the Song to early Qing dynasty, revealing Chinese attitudes towards innovation and invention.

Religion, technology, and the great and little divergences [[electronic resource] ] : China and Europe compared, c. 700-1800 / / by Karel Davids

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786570903321
• Autore: Davids C. A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-85470-8; 90-04-23695-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Collana: History of science and medicine library, , 1872-0684 ; ; vol. 32; Knowledge infrastructure and knowledge economy ; ; vol. 2
• Disciplina: 303.48/30951; 303.4830951
• Soggetti: Cross-cultural studies - China; Cross-cultural studies - Europe; Technological innovations - China - History; Technological innovations - Europe - History; Technology - Religious aspects - China - History; Technology - Religious aspects - Europe - History; Technology - Social aspects - China - History; Technology - Social aspects - Europe - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Religion and Visions on the Uses of Nature in China and Europe -- 2 Religion and Human Capital Formation in China and Europe -- 3 Religion and the Circulation of Technical Knowledge in China and Europe -- 4 Religion and Technical Innovation in China and Europe -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Religion, Technology, and the Great and Little Divergences Karel Davids offers a new perspective on technological change in China and Europe before the Industrial Revolution. This book makes an innovative contribution to current debates on the origins of the 'Great Divergence' between China and Europe and the ' Little Divergence' within Europe by ; analysing the relationship between the evolution of technical knowledge and religious contexts. It deals with the question to what extent disparities in the evolution of technical knowledge can be explained by differences in religious environment. It takes a comparative look at the relation between technology and religion in China and Europe between c.700 and 1800 from four angles: visions on the uses of nature, the formation of human capital , the circulation of technical knowledge and technical innovation.