Cultures of knowledge: technology in Chinese history

Preliminary Material /Dagmar Schäfer -- Introduction /Dagmar Schäfer -- Internode /Dagmar Schäfer -- Political, Social and Economic Factors Affecting the Transmission of Technical 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 -- Imperial Court /Dagmar Schäfer -- 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 Lefèvre -- Agora /Dagmar Schäfer -- Ceramics for Local and Global Markets: Jingdezhen's Agora of Technologies /Anne Gerritsen -- Temples, Technology, and Material Culture in Shouzhou 壽州, 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 -- Scholarly Arts /Dagmar Schäfer -- 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 -- Chinese Dynasties /Dagmar Schäfer -- Bibliography /Dagmar Schäfer -- Index /Dagmar Schäfer.

Identifying four spheres of knowledge culture in the history of technology in China, this book offers an introduction to the transmission of knowledge and detailed contextual descriptions of individual technologies in China such as porcelain, silk, and agriculture