Cultures of Knowledge -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Internode -- Political, Social and Economic Factors Affecting the Transmission of Technical Knowledge in Early Modern China -- Silken Strands: Making Technology Work in China -- Technological Transmission in China and Europe: A Compa rative View -- Imperial Court -- Picturing Yu Controlling the Flood: Technology, Ecology, and Emperorship in Northern Song China -- Sympa thetic Relations: Foreign Craftsmen at the Qing Court -- Symbolic Technology Politics -- Agora -- Ceramics for Local and Global Markets: Jingdezhen's Agora of Technologies -- Temples, Technology, and Material Culture in Shouzhou 壽州, Anhui -- Framing European Technology in Seventeenth-Century China: Rhetorical Strategies in Jesuit Paratexts -- The Knowledge Agora: The Role of the Officials -- Scholarly Arts -- Making Technology History -- The Biographer's View of Craftsmanship -- Chinese Literati and the Transmission of Technological Knowledge: The Case of Agriculture -- Two Cultures Speaking with One Voice? Invention, Ingenuity, and Agricultural Innova tion in Pre-Industrial European and Chinese Discourse -- Chinese Dynasties -- Bibliography -- Index.