The crafting of the 10,000 things
Subtitle: knowledge and technology in Seventeenth-Century China
By: Dagmar Schäfer
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780226735849
Subjects: Science; Chinese Cosmology; Technology; Qi (Chinese philosophy); History
Other titles: Crafting of the ten thousand things
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: Knowing "things and affairs" in premodern China; title: Nature, crafts, and knowing; title: Private affairs; title: The Ming dynasty and the Song family; title: Childhood and education; title: Driving forces: the appointment of Chen Qixin; title: Song's writing campaign; title: Affairs of honor; title: Knowledge in terms of qi: universal rulings and rationality; title: The truth in heaven and the order of qi; title: The power of heaven: omens and eclipses; title: Systems of value: the sage-kings, the authority of the past, and man's role; title: The knowledge in crafts; title: Public affairs; title: Crafts and the Ming state; title: Man's nature (xing) and talents; title: Abilities and education; title: Social permeability and the commercialization of society: the merchant; title: Customs and habits; title: Written affairs; title: Rhetoric of knowledge inquiry: texts and experience; title: Images, technology and argument; title: Observing the nature of qi: theory and practice in knowledge construction; title: The complexity of qi transformations: composites and compositions of qi; title: Formulating the transformation; title: Reading the signature of yin-yang qi in gas, salt, wind, and rain; title: Growth and decay: wood, corpses, and the proportional relation of yin and yang; title: Glitches in the matrix of qi: the concepts of ashes and particles; title: Acoustics; title: An anatomy of sound; title: The human voice; title: Volume and velocity; title: Resonance and harmony; title: Conclusion. leaving the theater; title: Epilogue. aftermath; title: By virtue of friendship: literary sponsorship; title: By virtue of position: outside and opposition; title: By virtue of loyalty: moral obligations; title: An artifact in transmission: The editions of the Works of heaven; title: Writing about practical knowledge in the Chinese literati world; title: Acknowledgments; title: Appendix 1. Chinese dynasties and various rulers; title: Appendix 2. Song Yingxing curriculum vitae; title: Appendix 3. Editions of the Tiangong kaiwu.