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The Buddha in the machine : art, technology, and the meeting of East and West / R. John Williams.

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Format:
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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