Although the history of technological and scientific illustrations is a well-established field in the West, scholarship on the much longer Chinese experience is still undeveloped. This work by Peter Golas is a short, illustrated overview tracing the subject to pre-Han inscriptions but focusing mainly on the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. His main theme is that technological drawings developed in a different way in China from in the West largely because they were made by artists rather than by specialist illustrators or practitioners of technology. He examines the techniques of these artists, their use of painting, woodblock prints and the book, and what their drawings reveal about changing technology in agriculture, industry, architecture, astronomical, military, and other spheres. The text is elegantly written, and the images, about 100 in all, are carefully chosen. This is likely to appeal to both scholars and general readers.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
ISBN-13
9789888208159
eBay Product ID (ePID)
214003515
Product Key Features
Author
Peter Golas
Publication Name
Picturing Technology in China-From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
252 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
163mm
Item Weight
504g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Peter Golas
Country/Region of Manufacture
Hong Kong
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