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| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2019-12-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9004416943 |
In Kao Gong Ji: The World’s Oldest Encyclopaedia of Technologies, Guan Zengjian and Konrad Herrmann offer an English translation and commentary of the first technological encyclopaedia in China. This work came into being around the 5th century C.E. and contains descriptions of thirty technologies used at the time. Most prominent are bronze casting, the manufacture of carriages and weapons, a metrological standard, the making of musical instruments, and the planning of cities. The technologies, including the manufacturing process and quality assurance, are based on standardization and modularization. In several commentaries, the editors show to which degree the descriptions of Kao Gong Ji correspond to archaeological findings. Revised and updated translation from the Chinese edition:《考工记: 翻译与评注》(ISBN: 978-7-313-12133-2) by Guan Zengjian, © Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press 2014. Published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press.
| Author | : Jun Wenren |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2014-10-29 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136267883 |
This book presents the first translation into English of the full text of the Kaogong ji. This classic work, described by the great scholar of the history of Chinese science and technology Joseph Needham as "the most important document for the study of ancient Chinese technology", dates from the fifth century BC and forms part of the Zhouli (The Rites of the Zhou Dynasty), one of the great Confucian classics. The text itself describes the techniques of working and the technologies used by over twenty different kinds of craftsmen and artificers, such as metal workers, chariot makers, weapon makers, music instrument makers, potters and master builders. This edition, besides providing the full text in English, also provides a substantial introduction and other supporting explanatory material, over one hundred illustrations of ancient Chinese artefacts, and the original Chinese text itself.
| Author | : Fengxuan Xue |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9814293733 |
Ch. 1. Introducing the Chinese case : its origin and stages of development -- ch. 2. From village to proto-urban settlements of late Yangshao period -- ch. 3. Longshan city-states -- ch. 4. Urbanism in the early bronze age state of the Xia -- ch. 5. Shang urbanism at the climax of bronze metallurgy -- ch. 6. From feudalism to commercial-industrial cities : Zhou dynasty and the Warring States -- ch. 7. The administrative city of Qin and Han -- ch. 8. Tang : golden age of the Confucian model -- ch. 9. Song renaissance and the new urbanity -- ch. 10. Ming dynasty : urban reconstruction and resurgence after the Yuan dynasty -- ch. 11. Qing urbanization : from neo-Confucian orthodoxy to semi-colonialism -- ch. 12. People's republic : the unsettled socialist approach -- ch. 13. Message from Chinese urbanism
| Author | : Yinke Deng |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 163 |
| Release | : 2011-03-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521186927 |
Ancient Chinese Inventions provides an illustrated introduction to the numerous scientific and technological inventions to which China can lay claim.
| Author | : Wu Cheng'en |
| Publisher | : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2018-08-14 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 9812298894 |
The bestselling Journey to the West comic book by artist Chang Boon Kiat is now back in a brand new fully coloured edition. Journey to the West is one of the greatest classics in Chinese literature. It tells the epic tale of the monk Xuanzang who journeys to the West in search of the Buddhist sutras with his disciples, Sun Wukong, Sandy and Pigsy. Along the way, Xuanzang's life was threatened by the diabolical White Bone Spirit, the menacing Red Child and his fearsome parents and, a host of evil spirits who sought to devour Xuanzang's flesh to attain immortality. Bear witness to the formidable Sun Wukong's (Monkey God) prowess as he takes them on, using his Fiery Eyes, Golden Cudgel, Somersault Cloud, and quick wits! Be prepared for a galloping read that will leave you breathless!
| Author | : Jun Wang |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 537 |
| Release | : 2011-01-03 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9814465542 |
Beijing Record, the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years, brings to an extended Western audience the inside story on the key decisions that led to Beijing's present urban fragmentation and its loss of memory and history in the form of bulldozing its architectural heritage. Wang's publication presents a survey of the main developments and government-level (both central and municipal) decisions, devoting a lot of attention to the 1950s and 1960s, when Beijing experienced a critical wave of transformative events.Shortly after its original Chinese bestseller edition was published by SDX joint Publishing Company House in October 2003, it ignited a firestorm of debate and discussion in a country where public interaction over such a sensitive subject rarely surfaces. The Chinese edition is in its 11th print run and was translated into Japanese in 2008. This newly-translated English version has the latest update on the author's findings in the area. As the only edition printed in full color with nearly 300 illustrations, the English version powerfully showcases the stunning architecture, culture, and history of China's Dynamic Capital, Beijing.Home to more than 15 million people, this ancient capital city — not surprisingly — has a controversial, complicated history of planning and politics, development and demolition. The publication raises a number of unsettling questions: Why have a valuable historical architectural heritage such as city ramparts, gateways, old temples, memorial archways and the urban fabric of hutongs (traditional alleyways) and siheyuan (courtyard houses) been visibly disappearing for decades? Why are so many houses being demolished at a time of economic growth? Is no one prepared to stand up for the preservation of the city?For his research, Wang went through innumerable archives, read diaries and collected an unprecedented quantity of data, accessing firsthand materials and unearthing photographs that clearly document the city's relentless, unprecedented physical makeover. In addition, he conducted more than 50 in-person interviews with officials, planners, scholars and other experts. Many illustrations are published here for the first time, compiled in the 1990s when archival public access was reformulated.
| Author | : Aaron Marcus |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 697 |
| Release | : 2023-07-08 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 3031356993 |
This 5-volume HCII-DUXU 2023 book set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2023, held as part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2023, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2023. A total of 1578 papers and 396 posters have been accepted for publication in the HCII 2023 proceedings from a total of 7472 submissions. The papers included in this volume set were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Design methods, tools and practices; emotional and persuasive design; Part II: Design case studies; and creativity and design education; Part III: Evaluation methods and techniques; and usability, user experience and technology acceptance studies; Part IV: Designing learning experiences; and chatbots, conversational agents and robots: design and user experience; Part V: DUXU for cultural heritage; and DUXU for health and wellbeing.
| Author | : Philip Steadman |
| Publisher | : UCL Press |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2021-04-13 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1787359158 |
Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.
| Author | : Yag-yong Chŏng |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 019062499X |
This book is an English translation of Noneo gogeum ju with the translator's comments on the creative ideas and interpretations of Dasan on the Analects. It not only represents one of the greatest achievements of Korean Confucianism but also demonstrates an innovative prospect for the progress of Confucian philosophy.
| Author | : Hendrik Spruyt |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2020-07-02 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108870678 |
Taking an inter-disciplinary approach, Spruyt explains the political organization of three non-European international societies from early modernity to the late nineteenth century. The Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires; the Sinocentric tributary system; and the Southeast Asian galactic empires, all which differed in key respects from the modern Westphalian state system. In each of these societies, collective beliefs were critical in structuring domestic orders and relations with other polities. These multi-ethnic empires allowed for greater accommodation and heterogeneity in comparison to the homogeneity that is demanded by the modern nation-state. Furthermore, Spruyt examines the encounter between these non-European systems and the West. Contrary to unidirectional descriptions of the encounter, these non-Westphalian polities creatively adapted to Western principles of organization and international conduct. By illuminating the encounter of the West and these Eurasian polities, this book serves to question the popular wisdom of modernity, wherein the Western nation-state is perceived as the desired norm, to be replicated in other polities.
