Book review. Hans Ulrich Vogel and Günter Dux, eds., Concepts of Nature: A Chinese European Cross-Cultural Perspective. Leiden: Brill, 2010. in East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal. 2016, vol 10, p. 213-310
Résumé
This book resulted from a conference held in Germany in 2000 on the concept of “nature” in China and Europe before the eighteenth century. Edited by Gu¨nter Dux, a specialist of sociology and social philosophy, and by Hans Ulrich Vogel, a historian of Chinese sciences and techniques, the book includes fifteen contributions introduced by two preliminary articles by Mark Elvin, who in the last twenty years has contributed to opening up the field of Chinese environmental history.