Transforming the Narrative of the History of Chinese Technology: East and West in Bertrand Gille’s Histoire des Techniques

In his magisterial The History of Techniques, the French historian of technology Bertrand Gille (1920–1980) constructs a Western-centric world history of technology based on a technical systems approach. In doing so, he is forced to deal with the tension between Western-centric approaches and the c...

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Main Authors: Yao Dazhi, Per Högselius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Estonian Association of the History and Philosophy of Science 2015-05-01
Series:Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum
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Online Access:http://www.bahps.org/01_Dazhi-Hogselius-2015-1-01.pdf