| Popis: |
Perhaps this book does not have the catchiest of titles: it is long, dense and descriptive. But it does include all the important words that capture exactly what this book is about. It covers science, technology and medicine in China during the previous four centuries, and, by looking at individual itineraries of actors, ideas and objects, demonstrates that “a spatial approach to knowledge is both fruitful and necessary, for China as for the rest of the world” (p. 18). While the word “global”... |
