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(0)Martina Siebert
1) Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan: Innovation, Experiments, and Anxieties
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2025]
Description
The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern China and Japan. They aim to understand animals and plants in the new contexts of empirical and epistemological concerns, political and social agendas, and cultural interests. In particular, they examine the ways in which scholars, professional painters, and publishers engendered the sociohistorical meanings...
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
This volume 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. An enormous apparatus that employed 22,000 men and women at its heyday, the Department operated a "machine" with myriad moving parts. The first part of the book portrays the people who kept it running, from technical experts...