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Technology, gender and history in imperial China : great transformations reconsidered
- Title
- Technology, gender and history in imperial China : great transformations reconsidered / Francesca Bray.
- Author
- Bray, Francesca
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge : imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 278 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Asia's transformations
- Critical Asian scholarship
- Uniform Title
- Asia's transformations.
- Critical Asian scholarship.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The power of technology -- Machines for living : domestic architecture and the engineering of the social order in late imperial China -- Instructive and nourishing landscapes : natural resources, people and the state in late imperial China -- Women's work and women's place : textiles and gender -- Structures of feeling : decorum, desire and a place of one's own -- Tales of fertility : reproductive narratives in late imperial medical cases -- Science, technique, technology : passages between matter and knowledge in imperial Chinese agriculture -- A gentlemanly occupation : the domestication of farming knowledge -- Agricultural illustrations : blueprint or icon?
- Call Number
- JFE 16-759
- ISBN
- 9780415639569
- 0415639565
- 9780415639590
- 041563959X
- 9780203083307
- 020308330X
- LCCN
- 2012043561
- 40022503357
- 99958743064
- OCLC
- 796752922
- Author
- Bray, Francesca, author.
- Title
- Technology, gender and history in imperial China : great transformations reconsidered / Francesca Bray.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Routledge : imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Asia's transformationsCritical Asian scholarshipAsia's transformations.Critical Asian scholarship.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 960 - 1644
- Other Standard Identifier
- 4002250335799958743064
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-759