Knowledge and technology in seventeenth-century China

unfolding the layers of the Tiangong kaiwu

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Dagmar Schäfer
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Table of Contents

Knowing "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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
609.51/09032
Library of Congress
Q127.C5 S825 2011, Q127.C5S825 2011

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL24452831M
ISBN 10
0226735842
ISBN 13
9780226735849
LCCN
2010022421
OCLC/WorldCat
636567536

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