LEADER 04469nam 2200613 450 001 9910460786503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a988-8313-92-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000410381 035 $a(EBL)2188863 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001497222 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11894669 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001497222 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11489930 035 $a(PQKB)11412887 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2188863 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001718629 035 $a(OCoLC)908634872 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47265 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2188863 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11092543 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000410381 100 $a20150430d2015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPicturing technology in China $efrom earliest times to the nineteenth century /$fPeter J. Golas 210 1$aHong Kong :$cHong Kong University Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (252 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a988-8208-15-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 181-198) and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aAlthough 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 Tübinge 606 $aTechnology in art 606 $aTechnical illustration$xHistory 606 $aArt, Chinese 606 $aMechanical drawing$zChina$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTechnology in art. 615 0$aTechnical illustration$xHistory. 615 0$aArt, Chinese. 615 0$aMechanical drawing$xHistory. 676 $a704.94960951 700 $aGolas$b Peter J.$0635166 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460786503321 996 $aPicturing technology in China$92475605 997 $aUNINA