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The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China 豆 7.9分
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作者:Dagmar Schäfer
出版社:Universty of Chicago Press
出版日期:2011-01
ISBN:9780226735849
文件格式: pdf
标签: 海外中国研究 科技史 思想史 历史 中国 科学史 技术史 社会史
简介· · · · · ·
The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this period was a series of texts by Song Yingxing (1587–1666?), a minor local official living in southern China. His Tiangong kaiwu, the l...
目录
Introduction
Knowing “Things and Affairs” in Premodern China
Nature, Crafts, and Knowing
Chapter 1. Private Affairs
The Ming Dynasty and the Song Family
Childhood and Education
Driving Forces—The Appointment of Chen Qixin
Song’s Writing Campaign
Chapter 2. 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
Chapter 3. 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
Chapter 4. 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
Chapter 5. 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
Chapter 6. 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 天工開物
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Knowing “Things and Affairs” in Premodern China
Nature, Crafts, and Knowing
Chapter 1. Private Affairs
The Ming Dynasty and the Song Family
Childhood and Education
Driving Forces—The Appointment of Chen Qixin
Song’s Writing Campaign
Chapter 2. 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
Chapter 3. 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
Chapter 4. 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
Chapter 5. 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
Chapter 6. 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 天工開物
Notes
Bibliography
Index