Technology, gender and history in imperial China : great transformations reconsidered / / Francesca Bray

• Autore: Bray Francesca
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/30820951
• Soggetto topico: Technological innovations - China - History; Technology - Social aspects - China; Sex role - China - History
• Soggetto geografico: China Social conditions 960-1644
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: section 1. Material foundations of the moral order -- section 2. Gynotechnics : crafting womanly virtues -- section 3. Androtechnics : the writing-brush, the plough and the nature of technical knowledge.
• Sommario/riassunto: <P>What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world, China entered an era of technical lethargy and decline. But how are we to reconcile this tale, which portrays China in the Ming and Qing dynasties as a dying giant that had outgrown its own strength, with the wealth of counterevidence affirming that the country remained rich, vigorous and powerful at
• Titolo autorizzato: Technology, gender and history in imperial China
• ISBN: 1-136-18428-7; 0-415-63959-X; 0-203-08330-X; 1-136-18429-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779759903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical Asian scholarship.