Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft: 79 - Rilegato

Francesca Bray; Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann; Georges Métailié

 
9789004160637: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft: 79
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ISBN 10: 9004160639 ISBN 13: 9789004160637
Casa editrice: BRILL, 2007

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This collection offers a challenging new interpretation of technical knowledge in Chinese thought and practice. Conveying technical knowledge in China through charts, plans or drawings (tu) dates back to antiquity. Earlier studies focused on specialised forms of tu like maps or drawings of machines. Here, however, tu is identified in Chinese terms, viz. as a philosophical category of knowledge production: visual templates for action, spanning a range from mandala to modernist mapping projects, inseparable from writing but with distinctive powers of communication. A distinction is made between two principal types of tu: ritual/symbolic and representational, highlighting essential issues such as historical shifts in their significance, the relations between tu and political power, media for inscribing tu and the impact of printing, and encounters with the West.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Francesca Bray, Ph.D. (1985) in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, is Professor of Social Anthropology at Edinburgh. Her publications include Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China (California, 1997). Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Ph.D. (1992) in History, Moscow University, is Directeur de recherche at the CNRS in Paris. Her publications include Mapping a Spiritual Landscape: Representing Terrestrial Space in the Shan hai jing, in: Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries, and Human Geographies in Chinese History (London New York, 2003). Georges Métailié, Ph.D. (1974) in Far Eastern Studies, University of Paris 7, is Directeur de recherche at the CNRS in Paris. His latest publication is Dictionnaire Ricci des plantes de Chine (Paris, 2005).

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Editore
BRILL
Data di pubblicazione
2007
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
9004160639
ISBN 13 
9789004160637
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
786
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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