Technology, gender and history in imperial China : great transformations reconsidered /
Bray, Francesca.
London ; New York : Routledge,
2013.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-74) and index.
Introduction: The power of technology -- Machines for living : domestic architecture and the engineering of the social order in late imperial China -- Instructive and nourishing landscapes : natural resources, people and the state in late imperial China -- Women's work and women's place : textiles and gender -- Structures of feeling : decorum, desire and a place of one's own -- Tales of fertility : reproductive narratives in late imperial medical cases -- Science, technique, technology : passages between matter and knowledge in imperial Chinese agriculture -- A gentlemanly occupation : the domestication of farming knowledge -- Agricultural illustrations : blueprint or icon?
Technological innovations
Technology
Sex role