Late Qing Encyclopaedias: Establishing a New Enterprise / Li Hsiao-t'i 李孝悌 -- From News 新聞 to New Knowledge 新學: Newspapers as Sources for Early Modern Chinese Encyclopaedias / Natascha Gentz -- The Complete Compilation of New Knowledge 新學備纂 (1902): Its Classification Scheme and its Sources / Iwo Amelung -- The Formation of Encyclopaedic Commonplaces during the Late Qing: Entries on the Newspaper / Rudolf G. Wagner -- Japanese Encyclopaedias. A Hidden Impact on Late Qing Chinese Encyclopaedias? / Douglas R. Reynolds -- From The Register of Ancients to Befriend to Brief Biographies of Notables Worldwide A Study of Late Qing Biographical Dictionaries / Xia Xiaohong 夏曉虹 -- Wenxue in the Purview of late Qing Encyclopaedias and Textbooks With a Focus on Huang Ren's Activities as Compiler / Chen Pingyuan 陳平原 -- Modern Chinese Encyclopaedic Dictionaries: Novel Concepts and New Terminology (1903 1911) / Milena Doleželová-Velingerová -- New Methods to Nourish the People : Late Qing. Encyclopaedic Writings on Political Economy / Andrea Janku -- Helping Our People to Jointly Hurry Along the Path to Civilization : The Everyday Cyclopaedia, Riyong baike quanshu 日用百科全書 / Catherine Vance Yeh -- China's New Encyclopaedia and Their Readers / Barbara Mittler -- Studies on the Characteristics of Late Qing Encyclopaedia Entries / Zhong Shaohua 鍾少華 -- List of encyclopaedic works studied in this volume.

"This is a set of pioneering studies on Chinese encyclopaedias of modern knowledge (1870-1930). At a transitional time when modern knowledge was sought after yet few modern schools were available, these works were crucial sources of information for an entire generation. This volume investigates many of these encyclopaedias, which were never reprinted and are hardly known even to specialists, for the first time. The contributors to this collection all specialize in the period in question and have worked together for a number of years. The resulting studies show that these encyclopaedias open a unique window onto the migration and ordering systems of knowledge across cultural and linguistic borders."--OCLC record.

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Cultures of knowledge : technology in Chinese history / edited by Dagmar Schäfer.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-385) and index.

Introduction / Dagmar Schäfer -- Political, social and economic factors affecting the transmission of knowledge in early modern China / William T. Rowe -- Silken strands: making technology work in China / Dagmar Schäfer -- Technological transmission in China and Europe: a comparative view / Pamela O. Long -- Picturing Yu controlling the flood: technology, ecology, and emperorship in Northern Song China / Heping Liu -- Sympathetic relations: foreign craftsmen at the Qing court / Luo Wenhua -- Symbolic technology politics / Wolfgang Lèfevre -- Ceramics for local and global markets: Jingdezhen's agora of technologies / Anne Gerritsen -- Temples, technology, and material culture in Shouzhou, Anhui / Susan Naquin -- Framing European technology in seventeenth-century China: rhetorical strategies in Jesuit paratexts / Joachim Kurtz -- The knowledge agora: the role of the officials / Matteo Valleriani -- Making technology history / Martina Siebert -- The biographer's view of craftsmanship / Martin Hofmann -- Chinese literati and the transmission of technological knowledge: the case of agriculture / Francesca Bray -- Two cultures speaking with one voice? Invention, ingenuity, and agricultural innovation in pre-industrial European and Chinese discourse / Marcus Popplow.

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Looking at knowledge transmission as a cultural feature, this book isolates and examines the individual factors that affect knowledge in the making and created uniquely Chinese cultures of knowledge. The volume is organized into four sections: Internode, Imperial Court, Agora, and Scholarly Arts. Each has a theoretical introduction, followed by two core contributions from experts in Chinese history. The section concludes with a ‘reflection’ by a historian of Western Technology who scrutinizes each sphere and identifies the points that reflect universal technological experience. The combination of broadly sketched theoretical introductions and detailed core contributions provides an unparalleled insight into pre-modern Chinese history from the Song to early Qing dynasty, revealing Chinese attitudes towards innovation and invention.

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