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008 100527s2011 iluab b 001 0 eng c
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050 00 $aQ127.C5$bS825 2011
082 00 $a609.51/09032$222
100 1 $aSchäfer, Dagmar.
245 14 $aThe crafting of the 10,000 things :$bknowledge and technology in Seventeenth-Century China /$cDagmar Schäfer.
246 3 $aCrafting of the ten thousand things
260 $aChicago :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2011.
300 $avii, 344 p. :$bill., map ;$c24 cm
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 307-326) and index.
505 0 $aKnowing "things and affairs" in premodern China -- Nature, crafts, and knowing -- Private affairs -- The Ming dynasty and the Song family -- Childhood and education -- Driving forces: the appointment of Chen Qixin -- Song's writing campaign -- Affairs of honor -- Knowledge in terms of qi: universal rulings and rationality -- The truth in heaven and the order of qi -- The power of heaven: omens and eclipses -- Systems of value: the sage-kings, the authority of the past, and man's role -- The knowledge in crafts -- Public affairs -- Crafts and the Ming state -- Man's nature (xing) and talents -- Abilities and education -- Social permeability and the commercialization of society: the merchant -- Customs and habits -- Written affairs -- Rhetoric of knowledge inquiry: texts and experience -- Images, technology and argument -- Observing the nature of qi: theory and practice in knowledge construction -- The complexity of qi transformations: composites and compositions of qi -- Formulating the transformation -- Reading the signature of yin-yang qi in gas, salt, wind, and rain -- Growth and decay: wood, corpses, and the proportional relation of yin and yang -- Glitches in the matrix of qi: the concepts of ashes and particles -- Acoustics -- An anatomy of sound -- The human voice -- Volume and velocity -- Resonance and harmony -- Conclusion. leaving the theater -- Epilogue. aftermath -- By virtue of friendship: literary sponsorship -- By virtue of position: outside and opposition -- By virtue of loyalty: moral obligations -- An artifact in transmission: The editions of the Works of heaven -- Writing about practical knowledge in the Chinese literati world -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1. Chinese dynasties and various rulers -- Appendix 2. Song Yingxing curriculum vitae -- Appendix 3. Editions of the Tiangong kaiwu.
600 10 $aSong, Yingxing,$d1587-$tTian gong kai wu.
650 0 $aScience$zChina$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aTechnology$zChina$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aCosmology, Chinese.
650 0 $aQi (Chinese philosophy)