Picturing Technology in China: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century

by Peter J. Golas

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888208152
• ISBN13: 9789888208159
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher