Skills and Techniques
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- General readers interested in the relationship between technology and society who wish to develop a reflective perspective
- Students and organizers seeking discussion material for general education or book clubs
- Professionals who use new technologies daily and want to examine their costs
- Beginner readers concerned with the ethics of technology but without a technical background
Not a good fit for
- Engineering practitioners seeking concrete technical solutions or operating guides
- Professional researchers expecting rigorous academic argument and data support
- Readers who only want historical facts about technological development and do not wish to discuss value judgments
Reading tips
- After each section, write down one technological convenience and one potential cost in your own life.
- Compare the book's arguments with the actual experiences of people around you and exchange views in a book club.
- After finishing, choose the technological product you rely on most and spend a week consciously observing its effects.
About the publisher
Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) was a private publishing and distribution house in Shanghai during the late Qing and early Republican periods, issuing traditional works by lithographic printing. Judging from the 1,194 titles in the collection, its publishing focused on classical poetry, Eastern philosophy, historical reading, traditional Chinese medical texts, and canonical works, along with books on literary appreciation. Representative titles include the poetry and prose collections of Du Fu and Ouyang Xiu; historical works such as the Book of Han and Zizhi Tongjian; classical texts such as the Book of Documents and Mencius; and specialized and literary classics such as Treatise on Cold Damage and Li Sao. Its author resources cover major figures across the ages, including Du Fu, Ban Gu, Sima Guang, Zhang Zhongjing, Qu Yuan, Ouyang Xiu, and Tang Shenwei, reflecting the house's characteristic reliance on traditional scholarship and medical literature while serving general readers. Public information on its early history and operational details is limited, so no conjecture is offered here.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 序
- 医生
- 论医和语
- 记与欧公语
- 参寥求医
- 王元龙治大风方
- 延年术
- 单骧孙兆
- 僧相欧阳公
- 记真君签
- 信道智法说
- 记筮卦
- 费孝先卦影
- 记天心正法咒
- 辨五星聚东井
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About the author
Anonymous is not a real personal name but a general Chinese designation for authors whose names are unknown, lost, or unsigned. Neither nationality nor dates of birth and death can be verified, and available public information is limited, so the works attributed to this name are the only basis for description. The collection holds 2,078 works under Anonymous, spanning medicine, classics, historical readings, ancient poetry, classical literature, and philosophy. Representative works include The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon: Lingshu, Mencius, The Book of Documents, Nineteen Old Poems, Complete Song Ci, and The Peacock Flies Southeast. Most of these works took shape through long transmission and editing, emerging either from collective folk creation or from authors whose names were lost over time. In ancient China, the Book of Songs, the Great Learning, and many popular storybooks and plays were signed Anonymous because their authors could not be traced. Anonymous works cross the classics, histories, philosophical writings, medical texts, and poetry; their subjects are broad, and their styles vary from archaic simplicity to clear naturalness, making them important and influential sources for understanding ancient Chinese thought, medicine, and literature.
