The Crafting Of The 10 000 Things

Author : Dagmar Schäfer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226735856

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The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this period was a series of texts by Song Yingxing (1587–1666?), a minor local official living in southern China. His Tiangong kaiwu, the longest and most prominent of these works, documents the extraction and processing of raw materials and the manufacture of goods essential to everyday life, from yeast and wine to paper and ink to boats, carts, and firearms. In The Crafting of the 10,000 Things, Dagmar Schäfer probes this fascinating text and the legacy of its author to shed new light on the development of scientific thinking in China, the purpose of technical writing, and its role in and effects on Chinese history. Meticulously unfolding the layers of Song’s personal and cultural life, Schäfer chronicles the factors that motivated Song to transform practical knowledge into written culture. She then examines how Song gained, assessed, and ultimately presented knowledge, and in doing so articulates this era’s approaches to rationality, truth, and belief in the study of nature and culture alike. Finally, Schäfer places Song’s efforts in conjunction with the work of other Chinese philosophers and writers, before, during, and after his time, and argues that these writings demonstrate collectively a uniquely Chinese way of authorizing technology as a legitimate field of scholarly concern and philosophical knowledge. Offering an overview of a thousand years of scholarship, The Crafting of the 10,000 Things explains the role of technology and crafts in a culture that had an outstandingly successful tradition in this field and was a crucial influence on the technical development of Europe on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.

Author : Dagmar Schäfer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226735849

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The chapters in this book cover 'Asian Studies: East Asia' 'Biography and Letters', 'History: Asian History', 'History European History', 'History of Science', 'Literature and Literary Criticism: Asian Languages', and much more.

Author : Lothar Ledderose
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691252872

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An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized parts Chinese workers in the third century BC created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century AD, Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. As these examples show, throughout history, Chinese artisans have produced works of art in astonishing quantities, and have done so without sacrificing quality, affordability, or speed of manufacture. In this book, Lothar Ledderose takes us on a remarkable tour of Chinese art and culture to explain how artists used complex systems of mass production to assemble extraordinary objects from standardized parts or modules. He reveals how these systems have deep roots in Chinese thought and reflect characteristically Chinese modes of social organization. Combining invaluable aesthetic and cultural insights with a rich variety of illustrations, Ten Thousand Things make a profound statement about Chinese art and society.

Author : Judith Farquhar,Qicheng Zhang
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781935408314

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Ten Thousand Things by Judith Farquhar,Qicheng Zhang Pdf

Ten Thousand Things explores the many forms of life, or, in ancient Chinese parlance “the ten thousand things” that life is and is becoming, in contemporary Beijing and beyond. Coauthored by an American anthropologist and a Chinese philosopher, the book examines the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice the embodied arts of everyday wellbeing, and in doing so draw on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media. Farquhar and Zhang show that there are many activities that nurture life: practicing meditative martial arts among friends in a public park; jogging, swimming, and walking backward; dancing, singing, and keeping pet birds; connoisseurship of tea, wine, and food; and spiritual disciplines ranging from meditation to learning a foreign language. As ancient life-nurturing texts teach, the cultural practices that produce particular forms of life are generative in ten thousand ways: they “give birth to life and transform the transformations.” This book attends to the patterns of city life, listens to homely advice on how to live, and interprets the great tradition of medicine and metaphysics. In the process, a manifold culture of the urban Chinese everyday emerges. The lives nurtured, gathered, and witnessed here are global and local, embodied and discursive, ecological and cosmic, civic and individual. The elements of any particular life — as long as it lasts, and with some skill and determination — can be gathered, centered, and harmonized with the way things spontaneously go. The result, everyone says, is pleasure.

Author : United States. Bureau of the Budget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Budget
ISBN : MSU:31293104027408

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The Budget of the United States Government by United States. Bureau of the Budget Pdf

Author : Yung-ti Li
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231549639

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Kingly Crafts by Yung-ti Li Pdf

The site of Anyang, the last capital of the Shang dynasty, dated to around 1200 to 1000 BCE, is one of the most important sources of knowledge about craft production in Bronze Age China. Excavations and research of the settlement over the past ninety years demonstrate both the advanced level of Shang craft workers and the scale and capacity of the craft industries of the time. However, materials unearthed in Anyang by different expeditions have since been stored separately in China and Taiwan, making a thorough study of this important aspect of life in Shang China challenging. Despite efforts to integrate the data based on published material, the physical evidence rarely has been considered as a single group. Through a systematic analysis of the archaeological materials available in both China and Taiwan, Yung-ti Li provides a detailed picture of craft production in Anyang and paves the way for a new understanding of how the Shang capital functioned as a metropolis. Focusing on craft-producing activities, including bronze casting, bone working, shell and marble inlay working, lithic working, and pottery production, Kingly Crafts examines the material remains, the technology, and the production organization of the craft industries. Although the level of Shang craftsmanship can be seen in the finished products, Li demonstrates that it is necessary to study workshop remains and their archaeological context to reconstruct the social and political contexts of craft production. Offering a comprehensive investigation of these remains, Kingly Crafts sheds new light on the relationships between craft industries and political authority in the late Shang period.

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1528 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Budget
ISBN : UIUC:30112061735897

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Message of the President of the United States Transmitting the Budget for the Service of the Fiscal Year Ending ... by United States Pdf

Author : Pennsylvania
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437122063049

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A Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania, from the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred to the Twenty-first Day of May, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-one. Originally Compiled by John Purdon, Esq by Pennsylvania Pdf

Author : Lothar Ledderose
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691252889

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Ten Thousand Things by Lothar Ledderose Pdf

An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized parts Chinese workers in the third century BC created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century AD, Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. As these examples show, throughout history, Chinese artisans have produced works of art in astonishing quantities, and have done so without sacrificing quality, affordability, or speed of manufacture. In this book, Lothar Ledderose takes us on a remarkable tour of Chinese art and culture to explain how artists used complex systems of mass production to assemble extraordinary objects from standardized parts or modules. He reveals how these systems have deep roots in Chinese thought and reflect characteristically Chinese modes of social organization. Combining invaluable aesthetic and cultural insights with a rich variety of illustrations, Ten Thousand Things make a profound statement about Chinese art and society.

Author : Peter Korn
Publisher : Random House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781473520684

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Why We Make Things and Why it Matters by Peter Korn Pdf

Why do we make things? Why do we choose the emotionally and physically demanding work of bringing new objects into the world with creativity and skill? Why does it matter that we make things well? What is the nature of work? And what is the nature of a good life? This January, whether you're honing your craft or turning your hand to a new skill, discover the true value in what it means to be a craftsman in a mass-produced world. Part memoir, part polemic, part philosophical reflection, this is a book about the process of creation. For woodworker Peter Korn, the challenging work of bringing something new and meaningful into the world through one's own efforts is exactly what generates authenticity, meaning, and fulfilment, for which many of us yearn. This is not a 'how-to' book in any sense, Korn wants to get at the 'why' of craft in particular, and the satisfaction of creative work in general, to understand its essential nature. How does the making of objects shape our identities? How do the products of creative work inform society? In short, what does the process of making things reveal to us about ourselves? Korn draws on four decades of hands-on experience to answer these questions eloquently in this heartfelt, personal and revealing book. 'If you are in the building trade or just love creating things as a hobby, you will find this book fascinating' The Sun

Author : Katy Beck,Marilyn Henkel
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681624167

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Footprints by Katy Beck,Marilyn Henkel Pdf

(from the original jacket) Palisades Park is a summer community of 200 cottages scattered throughout the dunes and along the shore of Lake Michigan, seven miles south of South Haven, MI. Since "the place we call Palisades Park" has encompassed a long and interesting story of its own, the book puts our small community into a broader context by including information on the area's geology as well as its Native American and Lumber Era days.

Author : Sandra Corse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131763513

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Craft Objects, Aesthetic Contexts by Sandra Corse Pdf

Craft Objects, Aesthetic Contexts examines the place of contemporary craft in traditional aesthetics. Though philosophers have usually either ignored craft or denigrated it as mechanical and unimaginative, a careful examination of their comments often indicates that they nevertheless took a lively interest in several important issues facing craft artists today. Although Kant is famous for emphasizing that aesthetic judgments must be pure and therefore concern themselves with objects that have no useful purpose, he took this position simply to clarify his argument, and in fact many of his examples involve objects we would today consider craft, such as furniture and even decorative wallpaper. Similarly, Heidegger and Adorno have been valued largely for their interest in complex and influential art objects, but their comments on art also frequently address issues central to craft, especially the significance of history, functionality, techniques, and materials. This book examines these comments in order to begin a process of appreciating how philosophical aesthetics, as practiced by these important writers, can contribute to our analysis of contemporary craft.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Allegheny County (Pa.)
ISBN : PSU:000025630848

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Directory of the Social Resources of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Natural history
ISBN : WISC:89119269918

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The Living Museum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Moyra Jones
Publisher : Hartley & Marks Publishers
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : CORNELL:31924067924427

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Gentlecare by Moyra Jones Pdf

Gentlecare offers a revolutionary new approach to Alzheimer's care. Author Moyra Jones' sensitive and insightful program for caring for those suffering from dementia emphasizes looking after the whole person; body, mind, and soul. She encourages healthcare providers of all kinds to move away from trying to modify behavior and to instead find ways to make the journey through Alzheimer's Disease less traumatic. Gentlecare covers every aspect of Alzheimer's caregiving from assessment to attitudes, and grooming to communication. It looks for ways to cherish the diminishing person and will be of profound interest to anyone affected by Alzheimer's disease, whether concerned professionals or family members of those afflicted.