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Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China
Great Transformations Reconsidered
Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world,...
To Be Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge