03082nam 2200673Ia 450 991046499060332120210824001438.01-283-07845-797866130784520-226-73585-010.7208/9780226735856(CKB)2560000000072323(EBL)683453(OCoLC)714569516(SSID)ssj0000468081(PQKBManifestationID)12169793(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468081(PQKBWorkID)10497655(PQKB)10064093(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123061(MiAaPQ)EBC683453(DE-B1597)524441(DE-B1597)9780226735856(Au-PeEL)EBL683453(CaPaEBR)ebr10464690(CaONFJC)MIL307845(EXLCZ)99256000000007232320100527d2011 uy 0engurun#---|uu|utxtccrThe crafting of the 10,000 things[electronic resource] knowledge and technology in seventeenth-century China /Dagmar SchäferChicago University of Chicago Press20111 online resource (353 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-73584-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --1. Private Affairs --2. Affairs of Honor --3. Public Affairs --4. Written Affairs --5. Formulating the Transformation --6. Acoustics --Conclusion. Leaving the Theater --Epilogue. The Aftermath --Acknowledgments --Appendix 1. Chinese Dynasties and Various Rulers --Appendix 2. Song Yingxing Curriculum Vitae --Appendix 3. Editions of the Tiangong kaiwu --Notes --Bibliography --IndexThe last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this period was a series of texts by Song Yingxing (1587-1666?), a minor local official living in southern China. His Tiangong kaiwu, the longest and most prominent of these works, documents the extraction and processing of raw materials and the manufacture of goods essential to everyday life, from yeast and wine to paper and ink to boatScienceChinaHistory17th centuryTechnologyChinaHistory17th centuryCosmology, ChineseQi (Chinese philosophy)Electronic books.ScienceHistoryTechnologyHistoryCosmology, Chinese.Qi (Chinese philosophy)609.5/1/09032Schäfer Dagmar974284MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464990603321The crafting of the 10,000 things2218109UNINA