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Drawing on history of science and philosophy of knowledge, this wide-ranging collection of essays on varieties of diagram, schema, technical illustration and chart offers a challenging new interpretation of technical knowledge in Chinese thought and practice.

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements…………………………………………… ix
List of Contributors……………………………………………
Introduction: The Powers of Tu……………………………… 1
Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh)
PART ONE: THE POWER OF ORDER – TU AS SYMBOLIC MEDIATION
I. THE ORIGINS OF TU
1. La représentation visuelle dans les pratiques pyro-ostéomantiques
dans la Chine archaïque………………………
Olivier Venture (EPHE, Paris)
83
2. Placed into the Right Position – Etymological Notes on Tu
and Congeners……………………………………………
Wolfgang Behr (Ruhr-Unversity Bochum)
109
II. TU AS MAGICO-RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS
1. Time, Space and Orientation: Figurative Representations of
the Sexagenary Cycle in Ancient and Medieval China……
Marc Kalinowski (EPHE, Paris)
137
2. Communication by Design: Two Silk Manuscripts of Diagrams
(Tu) from Mawangdui Tomb Three………………
Donald Harper (University of Chicago)
169
3. Picturing or Diagramming the Universe…………………
Wu Hung (University of Chicago)
191
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III. TEXT AS TU: TEXTUAL DIAGRAMS
1. Mapless Mapping: Did the Maps of the Shan hai jing Ever
Exist?………………………………………………………
Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (CNRS-EHESS, Paris)
217
2. The Tables (biao) in Sima Qian’s Shi ji: Rhetoric and Remembrance
………………………………………………
Griet Vankeerberghen (McGill, Montréal)
295
3. The Avatamsaka-sûtra as a ‘bodhi mandala Text’………
Hermann-Josef Röllicke (Ekô Centre, Düsseldorf)
313
4. Diagrams as an Architecture by Means of Words: the Yanji
tu…………………………………………………………
Michael Lackner (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
341
PART TWO: PICTURING REALITY? TU AS TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATIONS
I. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MEDIUM
1. Imagining Practice: Sense and Sensuality in Early Chinese
Medical Illustration………………………………………
Vivienne Lo (SOAS, London)
383
2. Geometrical Diagrams in Traditional Chinese Mathematics
…………………………………………………………
Alexei Volkov (National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan)
425
3. Woodcut Illustration: A General Outline…………………
Michela Bussotti (Ecole française d’Extrême-orient, Paris)
461
II. TEXT AND IMAGE IN THE ERA OF PRINT-CULTURE
1. The Representation of Plants: Engravings and Paintings…
Georges Métailié (CNRS, Paris)
487
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2. Agricultural Illustrations: Blueprint or Icon?……………
Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh)
521
3. ‘Like Obtaining a Great Treasure’: The Illustrations in Song
Yingxing’s The Exploitation of the Works of Nature……
Peter J. Golas (University of Denver)
569
4. Song Yingxing’s Illustrations of Iron Production…………
Donald B. Wagner (Copenhagen)
615
III. WESTERN INFLUENCES AND THEIR USES
1. The Body Revealed. The Contribution of Forensic Medicine
to Knowledge and Representation of the Skeleton in China
…………………………………………………………
Catherine Despeux (INALCO, Paris)
635
2. New Maps for the Modernizing State: Western Cartographic
Knowledge and Its Application in 19th and 20th
Century China……………………………………………
Iwo Amelung (University of Frankfurt)
685
INDEX………………………………………………………… 727
COLOUR PLATES…………………………………………… 745
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