商品簡介
Schafer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany) presents 14 articles exploring issues of technological knowledge circulation and transmission in Chinese history. The papers have been organized into sections focusing in turn on the ways information technologies and infrastructures were modulated in the tenth through 18th centuries, state interventions and their influence on technological investment as well as the symbolic and social value of technologies, localized aggregation of technologies, and the role of the scholar in documenting technology. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Dagmar Schafer heads a Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Her latest book is The Crafting of the 10,000 Things, Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth Century China, (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2011).
