教學大綱 Syllabus

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課程介紹

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知識史與資訊史的研究課題

*Peter Burke, What Is the History of Knowledge? (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016) Selected chapters

Ann Blair et al. eds., Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton: Princeton University Press,2021)

Jack W. Chen et al. eds., Literary Information in China: A History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021)

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行動到書面記錄

*M. T. Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307, 3^rd Edition (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) Selected chapters

Jack Goody, The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)

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彈性補充教學

資訊史條目心得作業

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經驗到書面知識

*Pamela H. Smith, From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022) Selected chapters

Elaine Leong, Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018)

Jacob Eyferth, “Craft Knowledge at the Interface of Written and Oral Cultures,” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 4.2(2010):185-205.

繳交資訊史條目心得作業

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印刷技術及其後果

*Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, 2^nd edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) Selected chapters

Susan Chernaick, “Book Culture and Textual Transmission in Sung China, “ Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 54.1(1994): 5-125.

Ronald Egan, “To Count Grains of Sand on the Ocean Floor: Changing Perceptions of Books and Learning in the Song Dynasty,” in Lucille Chia and Hilde de Weerdt eds., Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print: China, 900–1400 (Leiden: Brill, 2011),33-62.

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資訊超載時代的管理技術

*Ann Blair, Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010) Selected chapters

Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure (London: Penguin, 2021)

Dennis Duncan and Adam Smyth eds., Book Parts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)

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彈性補充教學

書評作業

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百科全書

*Richard Yeo, Encyclopedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) Selected chapters

Elias Muhana, The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018).

Benjamin Elman, “Collecting and Classifying: Ming Dynasty Compendia and Encyclopedias (Leishu),“Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident, Qu'était-ce qu'écrire une encyclopédie en Chine? What did it mean to write an Encyclopedia in China? (2007): 131-157.

繳交書評作業

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知識群體與媒介

*Brian W. Ogilvie, The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007) Selected chapters

Brian W. Ogilvie, “Correspondence Network,” in Bernard Lightman ed., A Companion to the History of Science (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), 358-371.

Hilde de Weerdt, “Informant Networks and Literati Identities,” Information, Territory, and Networks: the Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard Asia Center, 2015), 325-394.

Nathan Vedal, “From Tradition to Community: The Rise of Contemporary Knowledge in Late Imperial China,” Journal of Asian Studies 79.1(2020): 77-101.

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大眾讀物與社會階層

*Natalie Zemon Davis, “Printing and the People,” Society and Culture in Modern France (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1965),189-226.

*Roger Chartier, The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987) Selected chapters

Cynthia Brokaw, Commerce in Culture: the Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Asia Center, 2007)

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新聞、定期刊物與消息網絡

*Will Sauter, “Periodicals and the Commercialization of Information in the Sixteenth Century,” in Ann Blair et. al. eds., Information: A Historical Companion, 86-103.

*Joad Raymond and Noah Moxham, “News Networks in Early Modern Europe,” in Joad Raymond and Noah Moxham eds., News Networks in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 1-16.

Andrew Pettegree, The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself (New Haven: Yale University Press,2014)

Emily Mokros, The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021)

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檔案、資訊與近現代國家

*Randolph C. Head, “Record, Secretaries, and the European Information State, circa 1400-1700,” in Ann Blair et. al. eds., Information: A Historical Companion, 104-127.

*Randolph C. Head, “Knowing Like a State: The Transformation of Political Knowledge in Swiss Archives, 1450–1770,” Journal of Modern History 75.4 (2003):745-782.

*Elizabeth Yale, “The History of Archives: The State of the Discipline,” Book History 18 (2015):332-359.

Jacob Soll, The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010)

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校慶

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工業革命後的「一般讀者」

*Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900, 2^nd Edition (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998) Selected chapters

Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001)

Martyn Lyons, Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001).

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普及「現代」知識

*Bernard Lightman, Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audience (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007) Selected chapters

James A. Secord, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)

Heather A. Haveman, Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016)

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知識、情報與帝國

*Bernard S. Cohn, Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) Selected chapters

C. A. Bayly, Empire and Information:  Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)

Matthew Mosca, From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Origins of Modern China’s Geopolitics, 1644-1860 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013)

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資訊技術的跨國傳播

*Bhavani Raman, Document Raj: Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,2012) Selected chapters

Samarpita Mitra, Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture: Bengal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Leiden: Brill, 2020)

Christopher A. Reed, Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004)

繳交書評論文