Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire (Asian History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9463720359 ISBN 13: 9789463720359

Verlag: Routledge, 2021

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Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire brings the studies of institutions, labour, and material cultures to bear on the history of science and technology by tracing the workings of the Imperial Household Department (Neiwufu) in the Qing court and empire.

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Martina Siebert works as subject librarian at the East Asia department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and as independent scholar. She researches and publishes on the history of Chinese exploration into nature and technology with a focus on the styles and agendas of presenting and organizing that knowledge in writing. Kai Jun Chen is Assistant Professor at Brown University. The author of a forthcoming monograph on the technocratic culture in the Qing Imperial Ceramic Industry, he specialises in the history of imperial institutions, handicraft technology, and material culture studies. A native of Hong Kong, Dorothy Ko is Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is a cultural historian of early modern China whose research and publication focus on gender, technology, and material culture.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9463720359
• ISBN 13: 9789463720359
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 334
• Herausgeber: Siebert Martina, Chen Kai Jun, Ko Dorothy
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