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The Crafting of the 10,000 Things (Hardcover)
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The Crafting of the 10,000 Things (Hardcover)
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The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and
destruction, saw major 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 pearls and wine 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. Meticulously unfolding the layers of Song's
personal and cultural life, Schafer places the Tiangong kaiwu
squarely in its original milieu - both practically and
theoretically - and thus develops a new understanding of scientific
and technological thinking. Even as she vividly sets the Chinese
scene, Schafer offers incisive comparisons between
seventeenth-century China and Europe. Sinologists and historians of
science alike will be engrossed by this book, the first to place
Song's writing in a broader context.
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