Early 17th Century. Of nearly square form, fitting into a slightly larger shaped and carved base and conforming upright frame with a rounded toprail with ox-nose bail handle to enable transportation, and with a pair of foliate-form spandrels where each upright arm meets the base, with two framed rectangular doors opening to the interior fitted with single shelf and a row of two drawers at the bottom, the front rectangular lockplate with square openings to receive the metal members attached to the interior shelf

Seeed Studio is an open hardware facilitation company based in Shenzhen, China. Benefiting from local manufacture power and convenient global logistic system, we integrate resources to serve new era of innovation. Seeed also works with global distributors and partners to push open hardware movement.

We design modular electronics for quick prototyping and small scale projects, which could be found at Bazaar. It also carries inventories from community innovators, we help people make, distribute their designs and collect the revenue. It’s a win-win situation and taking a shape towards an ecosystem. By working with us, innovators could focus on the designs, provide better support to the user and promote the product. Seeed Studio or similar service provider could get more traffic and bring up other product sales.

IDP is a ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet and to encourage their use through educational and research programmes.

The Civ tech tree offered a nice way to talk about the “Needham Question“–crudely put, why didn’t China beat England to the industrial revolution? (I thank Jon Dresner for berating Bill & I about the low China content in an early draft of the syllabus. The course is still not quite as global as we want it to be, but the Needham Question and its shortcomings became a really key theme of the modern half.) It’s easy to play a game of Civilization in which China industrializes first. It’s much harder to play a game in which nobody industrializes on the European model, and it’s impossible to play a game in which technological progress veers onto an altogether different path. The Civ tech tree offers a range of choices but is basically linear in the end, and the fact that you really need certain technologies to win the game makes it more linear still.

How “contingent” is technological history? Relying on models from evolutionary epistemology, I
argue for an analogy with Darwinian Biology and thus a much greater degree of contingency than is
normally supposed. There are three levels of contingency in technological development. The crucial driving
force behind technology is what I call S-knowledge, that is, an understanding of the exploitable regularities
of nature (which includes “science” as a subset). The development of techniques depend on the existence
of epistemic bases in S. The “inevitability” of technology thus depends crucially on whether we condition
it on the existence of the appropriate S-knowledge. Secondly, even if this knowledge emerges, there is
nothing automatic about it being transformed into a technique that is, a set of instructions that transforms
knowledge into production. Third, even if the techniques are proposed, there is selection which reflects the
preferences and biases of an economy and injects a

The Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia (CHIA) database is a catalogue of historical images of Chinese, Chinese immigrants and their descendants held in Australia. It primarily draws on the photographic holdings of the Chinese Museum but also includes photographs from other online archives, publications and private family collections.

Asian cooks love them for their deep, gamy flavor, even in the breast meat.

This site presents Chinese, pinyin and English texts of poems by some of the greatest Chinese poets. Most of the featured authors are from the Tang dynasty, when culture in China was at its peak, but writers from other periods are also included.

This is a complete translation of the medieval Chinese dietary Yin-Shan cheng-yao (1330), with full notes and supporting text, along with a monograph-sized introduction.

Badger bristle sourcing.