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The Buddha in the machine : art, technology, and the meeting of East and West / R. John Williams.
Loaned to Another Library CB251 .W47 2014
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, R. John
- Series:
- Yale studies in English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East and West.
- Arts and society.
- Aesthetics, Oriental.
- Technology--Psychological aspects.
- Technology.
- Technology--Social aspects--Western countries.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Western countries.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 322 pages : illustrations (some color), 32 unnumbered pages ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Asia-as-Technê
- The teahouse of the American book : Boston bindings and Asia-as-Technê, 1890
- 1920
- Mastering the machine : Technology and the racial logic of Jack London's Asia
- Machine/art : Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, and the Chinese written character
- The technê whim : Lin Yutang and the invention of the Chinese typewriter
- The Chinese parrot : Technê-pop culture and the oriental detective genre
- Technê-zen and the spiritual quality of global capitalism
- The meeting of East and West.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300194470
- 0300194471
- OCLC:
- 862098442
- Publisher Number:
- 99967812102
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