Concepts of nature : : a Chinese-European cross-cultural perspective / / edited by Hans Ulrich Vogel and Gunter Dux ; with an overview and introduction by Mark Elvin.

• Superior document: Conceptual history and Chinese linguistics ; v. 1
• TeilnehmendeR: Vogel, Hans Ulrich.; Dux, Gunter.; Elvin, Mark.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Conceptual history and Chinese linguistics ; v. 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (580 p.)
• Notes: Papers from a conference on "Understanding nature in China and Europe until the eighteenth century : a cross-cultural project," held in Rheine, Westphalia, Germany, March 22-25, 2000.

This book, inspired by the sociologist Günter Dux, co-edited by the historian Hans Ulrich Vogel, and introduced by Mark Elvin, is a collective intellectual masterpiece written by some of the world’s leading scholars. Its purpose is to illuminate premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by com...