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The Research Project “Chinese Everyday Technologies” - Introduction
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From 2002 to 2005 the Volkswagen Foundation
(VolkswagenStiftung) was funding the research project “History and
Anthropology of Chinese Everyday Technologies”. It was based at
Berlin Technical University and collaborates with the Institute of
Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, History of Science and Technology
and the Study Group for the History and Philosophy of Chinese Science
and Technology as well as the East Asian Seminar of Berlin Free
University (section Prof. von Mende).
The topic of this
technical-anthropologically and everyday-historiographically oriented
research project was the way in which people in China have since
earliest times been organising their basic necessities. Chinese people
have implemented culturally obstinate, flexibly adaptable technologies
in their daily lives. These are to be understood on the background of
the sociotechnical systems of the different periods of Chinese history
and have developed in line with basic cultural technological
choices.
There were three aspects to the research project: (i)
basic research with the aim to produce an outline of a history of
Chinese everyday technologies; (ii) the training of young researchers;
(iii) setting up a database that will be a valuable resource to
researchers in the area (particularly on the subjects of clothing,
alimentation, dwelling and communication).
Everyday thechnologies
- Chinese Everyday Technologies (2002-2005) [5]
- Sub-projects [6]
- Research Projects [7]
- Team [8]
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