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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Mapping meanings : the field of new learning in late Qing China / edited by Michael Lackner and Natascha Vittinghoff.
Collection of contributions to the international conference "Translating Western Knowledge into late Imperial China," held at the ... University of Gottingen University in Dec. 1999.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Mapping Meanings is essentially a broad-ranged introduction to China's intellectual entry into the family of nations. Written by a fine selection of experts, it guides the reader into the terrain of China's (late Qing) encounter with Western knowledge and modern sciences, and at the same time connects convincingly to the broader question of the mobility of knowledge. The late Qing literati's pursue of New Learning was a transnational practice inseparable from the local context. "Mapping Meanings therefore attempts to highlight what the encountered global knowledge could have meant to specific social actors in the specific historical situation. Subjects included are the transformation of the examination system, the establishment of academic disciplines, and new social actors and questions of new terminologies. Both an introduction and a reference work on the subject."--OCLC note.

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Scholars and their marginalia in late imperial China / by Yinzong Wei.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Conventions -- Chart of Historical Periods -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Chinese Interpretive Texts: Annotations, Commentaries and Marginalia -- 1 Contents and Features -- 1.1 Zhushu/Annotations: Proposing Meanings from the Classics -- 1.2 Pingdian/Commentaries: In-Depth Understanding of LiteraryFeatures -- 1.3 Pijiao/Marginalia: Hand-Written Reading Responses -- 2 Forms and Circulation -- 2.1 Annotations: From Oral Transmission to Writing on Paper -- from Separation to Combination -- 2.2 Commentaries: Reshaping Chinese Books -- 2.3 Marginalia: Anywhere, Any Color -- Chapter 3 The "Reading Seed": He Zhuo and His Marginalia -- 1 He Zhuo: The "Reading Seed" -- 2 He Zhuo's Scholarly Transition -- 3 A Pioneer of Textual Criticism -- 4 Reading He Zhuo's Historical Comments -- 5 The Stigmatization of a Scholar -- Chapter 4 Scholarly Communities and the Transcription of Marginalia -- 1 He Zhuo and His Students: Transcription of the Teacher's Marginalia -- 2 Scholarly Communities and the Transcription of Marginalia -- 3 Booksellers and Scribes and Their Role in the Marginalia Culture -- 4 Shaping the Text of the Classics -- 5 Marginalia Culture -- Chapter 5 The Writing of Scholarly Lives in Marginalia -- 1 Temporal and Spatial Records in Marginalia -- 2 The Artistic Lives of Scholars -- 3 The Mental World of Scholars -- Chapter 6 Edited Reading: The Printing of Marginalia in the Qing Dynasty -- 1 The Printing of the Yimen dushu ji -- 1.1 From Notation Book to Marginalia -- 1.2 The Compilation of the Yimen dushu ji -- 1.3 The Selection and Omission of Marginalia: The Hou Hanshu as Example -- 2 Printing Marginalia alongside the Main Text -- 3 The Printing of Collation Notes -- 4 The Flourishing of Collation Biji -- 5 The Merits of Printing -- Chapter 7 Epilogue -- 1 Marginalia and the Evidential Research -- 2 Invisible Scholars and the Intellectual History of the Qing -- Appendix Books Containing He Zhuo's Marginalia and Their Transcriptions -- Bibliography -- Index

"Marginalia are a variety of writings and symbols written by readers in book margins. This study focuses on marginalia and explores the reading practices and the scholarly culture of late Imperial China. Beginning in the late Ming and early Qing, more scholars devoted themselves to reading and collating ancient texts. They developed the habit of writing marginalia while reading, of transcribing other readers' marginalia, and of printing marginalia, all of which formed a particular scholarly culture. This book explores how this culture developed, gained momentum, and shaped the styles, lives, thoughts, and mind states of scholars in the Qing dynasty"-- Provided by publisher.

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