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The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China Book

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  • The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China
  • Written by author Dagmar Schafer
  • Published by University of Chicago Press, March 2011
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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


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