China's early modern society / E. Reischauer, J. Fairbank -- The Naitō hypothesis / H. Miyakawa -- Change within tradition / E. Kracke, Jr. -- Urban developments / E. Balazs -- The rise of China as a sea power / Lo Jung-Pang -- The neo-traditional period / J. Liu -- Early-ripening rice / Ho Ping-Ti -- Industrial developments: the iron and coal industries / R. Hartwell -- Changes in the countryside: the great estates / D. Twitchett -- The problem of hired labor / K'o Ch'ang-Chi -- A Sung entrepreneur: Wang Ko / W. Eberhard -- Capitalism in Sung and Yuan China: a western interpretation / E. Balazs -- Two views of Sung autocracy / M. Ichisada, C. Mu -- Sung government: theory and practice / E. Kracke, Jr. -- Centralization, conformity and absolutism / J. Liu -- A Neo-Confucian visionary: Ou-yang Hsiu / D. Nivison -- Student petitions / L. Yutang -- Clan reform in the Sung / D. Twitchett -- Common tendencies of Neo-Confucianism / W. De Bary -- The new Sung culture / Saeki Tomi.

1. Early Graphics in China - Pictorial Writing - Geometrical Designs - From Ornament to Narrative: Warring States and Han Illustrations - Early Farming Paintings
2. Han to Tang: Realism on the Rise - Aesthetics and Realism to the Fore- Scale Drawing and Perspective - The Dominance of Brush and Line - Models, Automata, and Technological Drawing - The Advent of Woodblock Printing
3. Song and Yuan: A Golden Age - Ruled-line Painting and Its Critics - Government, Printing, and Technological Representations - The Collection of the Most Important Military Techniques (Wujing zongyao) - The New Armillary Sphere and Celestial Globe System Essentials (Xinyixiang fayao) - The Building Standards (Yingzao fashi) - The Pictures of Tilling and Weaving (Geng zhi tu) - The Agricultural Treatise (Nongshu) of Wang Zhen
4. The New Confucian Paradigm - Realism in Retreat - Elite Dominance of Painting - "Historical" Painting - Philosophic Contributions to the New Painting Aesthetic - Painting and Calligraphy
5. Late Ming and The Exploitation of the Works of Nature - The Exploitation of the Works of Nature: A Culmination of Sorts - Song Yingxing and His World - Book Illustration in the Late Ming - Why This Work? - Assessing the Illustrations - Production Challenges - The Later History of the Illustrations
6. Qing Developments: Roads Not Taken - The Seventeenth-Century Transition - The Jesuit Contribution and Its Limited Impact - A Qualified Last Hurrah for Realism: Architectural Painting in the Qing
Closing Comments - Non-technological Aims in Portrayals of Technology - Pre-eminence of Agriculture and Human Inputs - Underrepresented Technologies - The Absence of Standards for Technical Drawing - The Role of Government Workshops - Maturity or Stagnation?

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