Böcker av Francesca Bray

A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the "cropscape"--the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop

In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, the author inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were deprived of freedom and dignity.

Examines patterns of technological and social evolution specific to East-Asian wet-rice economies in order to clarify some general historical trends in economic development.