Book ID: CBB000950976

Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft (2007)

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Bray, Francesca (Editor)
Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Vera V. (Editor)
Métailié, Georges (Editor)


Brill


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xiii + 772 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Hammers, Roslyn Lee (2009) Review of "Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft". Technology and Culture (p. 202). unapi

Review Smith, Hilary A. (2009) Review of "Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 632). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Behr, Wolfgang (2007) Placed Into the Right Position: Etymological Notes on “tu” and Congeners. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Amelung, Iwo (2007) New Maps for the Modernizing State: Western Cartographic Knowledge and Its Application in 19th and 20th Century China. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Harper, Donald (2007) Communication by Design: Two Silk Manuscripts of Diagrams (tu) From Mawangdui Tomb Three. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Vera (2007) Mapless Mapping: Did the Maps of the Shan Hai Jing Ever Exist?. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Röllicke, Hermann-Josef (2007) The Avatamsaka-Sûtra as a “Bodhi Mandala Text”. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Lackner, Michael (2007) Diagrams as an Architecture by Means of Words: The Yanji tu. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Volkov, Alexei (2007) Geometrical Diagrams in Traditional Chinese Mathematics. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Métailié, Georges (2007) The Representation of Plants: Engravings and Paintings. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Bray, Francesca (2007) Agricultural Illustrations: Blueprint or Icon?. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Wagner, Donald B. (2007) Song Yingxing's Illustrations of Iron Production. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Despeux, Catherine (2007) The Body Revealed: The Contribution of Forensic Medicine to Knowledge and Representation of the Skeleton in China. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Bray, Francesca (2007) Introduction: The Powers of “tu”. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Venture, Olivier (2007) La Représentation visuelle dans les pratiques pyro-ostéo-mantiques dans la Chine archaïque. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Kalinowski, Marc (2007) Time, Space and Orientation: Figurative Representations of the Sexagenary Cycle in Ancient and Medieval China. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Hung, Wu (2007) Picturing or Diagramming the Universe. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Vankeerberghen, Griet (2007) The Tables (biao) in Sima Qian's Shi Ji: Rhetoric and Remembrance. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Lo, Vivienne (2007) Imagining Practice: Sense and Sensuality in Early Chinese Medical Illustration. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Bussotti, Michela (2007) Woodcut Illustration: A General Outline. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

Chapter Golas, Peter J. (2007) “Like Obtaining a Great Treasure”: The Illustrations in Song Yingxing's The Exploitation of the Works of Nature. In: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Vera V.
Nanda, Vivek
Yongtao Du
Johnson, Alexander
Liu, Yaya
S. H. I. Xiaolei
Journals
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Nei Menggu Shifan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)
Journal of Dialectics of Nature
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Publishers
National Museum, New Delhi
University of Chicago Press
Routledge
Lexington Books
Ke xue chu ban she
Duke University Press
Concepts
East Asia, civilization and culture
Visual representation; visual communication
Mathematics
Science, general histories
Medicine
Cosmology
People
Euclid
Qianlong Emperor
Zhu, Zaiyu
Needham, Joseph
Time Periods
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Medieval
Ancient
17th century
Song-Yuan dynasties (China, 960-1368)
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
Places
China
Yellow River (China)
Korea
India
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