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Author:   Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.566kg
ISBN:  

9780415639569

ISBN 10:   0415639565
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   11 June 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: the power of technology Part I: Material foundations of the moral order 1. Machines for living: domestic architecture and the engineering of the social order in late imperial China 2. Instructive and nourishing landscapes: natural resources, people and the state in late imperial China Part II: Gynotechnics: crafting womanly virtues 3. Women’s work and women’s place: textiles and gender 4. Structures of feeling: decorum, desire and a place of one’s own 5. Tales of fertility: reproductive narratives in late imperial medical cases Part III: Androtechnics: the writing-brush, the plough and the nature of technical knowledge 6. Science, technique, technology: passages between matter and knowledge in imperial Chinese agriculture 7. A gentlemanly occupation: the domestication of farming knowledge 8. Agricultural illustrations: blueprint or icon?

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In her latest book, Francesca Bray presents a concise synthesis of her research on everyday technologies that shaped the lives of men and women in premodern China...it assembles central aspects in male and female worlds in practical everyday life, society, and political ideology. - Nanny Kim, University of Heidelberg, Technology and Culture 2014 Vol. 55

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Francesca Bray is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

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