Picturing Technology in China: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century
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Although 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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:9888208152
ISBN13:9789888208159
Release Date:January 2015
Publisher:Hong Kong University Press
Length:252 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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