Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft

by Bray, Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, F. (ed.)

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004160639
• ISBN13: 9789004160637
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 786 Pages
• Weight: 3.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"