| Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft Contributor(s): Bray (Editor), Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (Editor), Métailié (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004160639 ISBN-13: 9789004160637 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $253.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: Drawing on history of science and philosophy of knowledge, this wide-ranging collection of essays on varieties of diagram, schema, technical illustration and chart offers a challenging new interpretation of technical knowledge in Chinese thought and practice. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science |
| Dewey: 609.51 |
| LCCN: 2007038666 |
| Series: Sinica Leidensia |
| Physical Information: 1.76" H x 6.65" W x 9.61" (3.16 lbs) 786 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection offers a challenging new interpretation of technical knowledge in Chinese thought and practice. Conveying technical knowledge in China through charts, plans or drawings (tu) dates back to antiquity. Earlier studies focused on specialised forms of tu like maps or drawings of machines. Here, however, tu is identified in Chinese terms, viz. as a philosophical category of knowledge production: visual templates for action, spanning a range from mandala to modernist mapping projects, inseparable from writing but with distinctive powers of communication. A distinction is made between two principal types of tu: ritual/symbolic and representational, highlighting essential issues such as historical shifts in their significance, the relations between tu and political power, media for inscribing tu and the impact of printing, and encounters with the West. |