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Chinese Thought, Society, and Science: The Intellectual and Social Background of Science and Technology in Pre-Modern China
Derk Bodde
Hardcover. University of Hawaii Press 1991-10.
ISBN 9780824813345
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The Chinese have given the world paper, printing, porcelain, gunpowder, the
mariner's compass and other inventions important to the history and development
of science. Yet it was Europe, not China, that experienced the scientific and
technological revolution that transformed the world from the 17th century
onward. In this study, Derk Bodde examines the cultural requisites for science
and technology in early China and other pre-modern civilizations. Bodde focuses on the wide range of intellectual and social forces that may
have favoured or disfavoured the development of science and technology in China
- forces overwhelmingly humanistic, such as the written classical language,
concepts of time and space, religious attitudes, theories of government and
society, moral and social values, and attitudes toward nature. He also compares
and contrasts similar factors in the West. This study focuses on the range of intellectual and social forces that may
have favoured or disfavoured the development of science and technology in
China. It explores the cultural requisites for science in early China, and
compares the attitudes of Western industrialized nations to those of China.
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