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Science and Civilisation in China, Part 1, Paper and Printing

By: Joseph Needham,Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin

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Science and Civilisation in China, Part 1, Paper and Printing

By: Joseph Needham,Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin

Part one of the fifth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is written by one of the project's collaborators. Professor Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin, working in regular consultation with Dr Needham, has written the most comprehensive account of every aspect of paper and printing in China to be published in the West. From a close study of the vast mass of source material, Professor Tsien brings order and illumination to an area of technology which has been of profound importance in the spread of civilisation. The main body of the book is a detailed study of the invention, technology and aesthetic development of printing in China. From the growth and ultimate refinements of early woodcut printing to the spread of printing from movable type and the development of book-binding, Professor Tsien carries the story forward to the beginning of the nineteenth century when 'more printed pages existed in Chinese than in all other languages put together'.

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520

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Cambridge University Press

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0521086906

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9780521086905

Collected Writings on Chinese Culture

By: Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien

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Collected Writings on Chinese Culture

By: Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien

A skilled observer and noted scholar of Chinese culture, TsuenHsuin Tsien has contributed profoundly to the West's understanding of the East and vice versa. Having spent six decades as a professor and curator at The University of Chicago, he has been an indispensable resource on a wide range of topics that include Chinese paleography, paper, inkmaking, printing, cultural exchange, libraries, and biographies. Collected Writings on Chinese Culture contains distilled selections from Tsien's major works and journal articles, as well as his Memoir of a Centenarian, which traces Tsien's life from his youth in China through sixty years of scholarship at The University of Chicago. This volume is an excellent companion for anyone familiar with Tsien's work and also a welcome resource for readers unfamiliar with the author's writings and extensive impact within East Asian studies and across all of academia.

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

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9629969750

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9789629969752

Collected Writings on Chinese Culture

By: Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien

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By: Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 3, Civil Engineering and Nautics

By: Joseph Needham

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 3, Civil Engineering and Nautics

By: Joseph Needham

As Dr Needham's immense undertaking gathers momentum it has been found necessary to subdivide volumes into parts, each bound and published separately. The first two parts of Volume IV deal respectively with the physical sciences and with the diverse applications of physics in the many branches of mechanical engineering. The third deals with civil and hydraulic engineering and with nautical technology.

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990

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Cambridge University Press

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0521070600

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9780521070607

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 1, Botany

By: Joseph Needham

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 1, Botany

By: Joseph Needham

The sixth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth and fifth, is subdivided into parts for ease of presentation and assimilation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of biology and biological technology (which includes botany and agriculture, zoology, all aspects of medicine, and pharmaceutics).

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0521087317

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering

By: Joseph Needham

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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering

By: Joseph Needham

As Dr Needham's immense undertaking gathers momentum it has been found necessary to subdivide volumes into parts, each to be bound and published separately. The first part of Volume 4, already published, deals with the physical sciences; the second with the diverse applications of physics in the many branches of mechanical engineering; and the third will deal with civil and hydraulic engineering and nautical technology. With this part of Volume 4, then, we come to the application by the Chinese of physical principles in the control of forces and in the use of power; we cross the frontier separating tools from the machine. We have already noticed that the ancient Chinese concept of chhi (somewhat similar to the pneuma of the Greeks) asserted itself prominently in acoustics; but we discover here that the Chinese tendency to think pneumatically was also responsible for a whole range of brilliant technological achievements, for example, the double-acting piston-bellows, the rotary winnowing-fan, and the water-powered metallurgical blowing-machine (ancestor of the steam-engine); as well as for some extraordinary insights and predictions in aeronautics.

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0521058031

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Book's by Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin

Science and Civilisation in China, Part 1, Paper and Printing

Science and Civilisation in China, Part 1, Paper and Printing

Collected Writings on Chinese Culture

Collected Writings on Chinese Culture

Collected Writings on Chinese Culture

Collected Writings on Chinese Culture

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 3, Civil Engineering and Nautics

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 3, Civil Engineering and Nautics

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 1, Botany

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 1, Botany

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering

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