04469nam 2200613 450 991046078650332120200520144314.0988-8313-92-4(CKB)3710000000410381(EBL)2188863(SSID)ssj0001497222(PQKBManifestationID)11894669(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001497222(PQKBWorkID)11489930(PQKB)11412887(MiAaPQ)EBC2188863(StDuBDS)EDZ0001718629(OCoLC)908634872(MdBmJHUP)muse47265(Au-PeEL)EBL2188863(CaPaEBR)ebr11092543(EXLCZ)99371000000041038120150430d2015 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPicturing technology in China from earliest times to the nineteenth century /Peter J. GolasHong Kong :Hong Kong University Press,2015.1 online resource (252 p.)Description based upon print version of record.988-8208-15-2 Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-198) and index.Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: Early Graphics in China; 2: Han to Tang; Plates 1-8; 3: Song and Yuan; 4: The New Confucian Paradigm; 5: Late Ming and The Exploitation of the Works of Nature; 6: Qing Developments; Plates 9-16; Closing Comments; Bibliography; IndexAlthough the history of technological and scientific illustrations is a well-established field in the West, scholarship on the much longer Chinese experience is still undeveloped. This work by Peter Golas is a short, illustrated overview tracing the subject to pre-Han inscriptions but focusing mainly on the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. His main theme is that technological drawings developed in a different way in China from in the West largely because they were made by artists rather than by specialist illustrators or practitioners of technology. He examines the techniques of these artists, their use of painting, woodblock prints and the book, and what their drawings reveal about changing technology in agriculture, industry, architecture, astronomical, military, and other spheres. The text is elegantly written, and the images, about 100 in all, are carefully chosen. This is likely to appeal to both scholars and general readers. "Picturing Technology develops a rich and convincing analysis of technology's place in the material, intellectual and aesthetic traditions of Chinese civilisation. This pathbreaking work by one of the leading historians of technology in China also challenges us to rethink a key question about the rise of the modern world: how closely do skills in technological illustration relate to mechanical understanding, invention or technological achievement?" —Francesca Bray, University of Edinburgh "Providing a comprehensive and splendidly illustrated survey of premodern China's tradition of picturing technology, Peter J. Golas excels in carefully exploring and weighing all of its aspects and avoids anachronistic pitfalls as well as Western-centric condescension or Sino-centric glorification." —Wolfgang Lefèvre, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin "This is the first monograph dealing critically with the depiction of technology throughout China's long history. Based on wide reading in primary sources as well as secondary literature in major Western and Eastern languages, Golas's analysis gives due consideration to such disparate yet interrelated factors as technology, society, economics, politics, philosophy, and art, thereby revealing the complex inner mechanisms of China's developments." —Hans Ulrich Vogel, University of TübingeTechnology in artTechnical illustrationHistoryArt, ChineseMechanical drawingChinaHistoryElectronic books.Technology in art.Technical illustrationHistory.Art, Chinese.Mechanical drawingHistory.704.94960951Golas Peter J.635166MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460786503321Picturing technology in China2475605UNINA