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This is the first complete English language version of Shen Kuo's seminal Brush Talks From Dream Brook, published outside China. Highly valued by scholars for its scientific and technological coverage, this encyclopaedic book is probably the most important source text for technological advances and the organization of knowledge in China's golden age, the Song dynasty (960-1279).
Author Shen Kuo is the most famous writer in China's scientific history. The significance of Brush Talks From Dream Brook have been thoroughly researched by scholars such as Fu Daiwie but it has not yet gained the recognition it deserves in Western studies on the history of science and technology.
Written between 1086 and 1093 in note style, it covers astronomy, mathematics, geography, physics, biology, medicine, military, literary, history, archaeology and music. Now translated into English and available outside China for the very first time, it's rightly recognised as a masterpiece in the history of Chinese scientific and technological development.
Contents
Translator's Preface
Author's Preface
Section One, Stories (1)
Section Two, Stories (2)
Section Three, Philological Criticism (1)
Section Four, Philological Criticism (2)
Section Five, Musical Temperament (1)
Section Six, Musical Temperament (2)
Section Seven, Chinese Numerology (1)
Section Eight, Chinese Numerology (2)
Section Nine, Human Affairs (1)
Section Ten, Human Affairs (2)
Section Eleven, Administrative Affairs (1)
Section Twelve, Administrative Affairs (2)
Section Thirteen, Wisdom in Emergencies
Section Fourteen, Literature and Language (1)
Section Fifteen, Language and Literature (2)
Section Sixteen, Language and Literature (3)
Section Seventeen, Calligraphy and Painting
Section Eighteen, Crafts
Section Nineteen, Artifacts and Implements
Section Twenty, Divine Marvels
Section Twenty-One, Strange Occurrences
Section Twenty-Two, Errors
Section Twenty-Three, Wit and Satire
Section Twenty-Four, Miscellanies (1)
Section Twenty-Five, Miscellanies (2)
Section Twenty-Six, Traditional Chinese Medicine
A Supplement to Brush Talks from Dream Brook Section One: Stories, Philological Criticism, Musical Temperament
Section Two: Chinese Numerology, Administrative Affairs, Wisdom in Emergencies, Literature and Language, Artifacts and Implements
Section Three: Strange Occurrences, Miscellanies, Traditional Chinese Medicine, The Continuation of Brush Talks from Dream Brook.
