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The Crafting of the 10,000 Things - Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China (Paperback)
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The Crafting of the 10,000 Things - Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China (Paperback)
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The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and
destruction, saw a significant increase in 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 longest
and most prominent of these works, documents the extraction and
processing of raw materials and the manufacture of goods essential
to everyday life, from yeast and wine to paper and ink to boats,
carts, and firearms. In The Crafting of the 10,000 Things, Dagmar
Schafer probes this fascinating text and the legacy of its author
to shed new light on the development of scientific thinking in
China, the purpose of technical writing, and its role in and
effects on Chinese history.
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