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Kuhn, Dieter was born on May 29, 1946 in Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. Son of Rudi and Ruth (Mühlhäuser) Kuhn.
(This study, the first of two parts, gives a comprehensive...)
This study, the first of two parts, gives a comprehensive account of Chinese textiles and textile technology and deals with the evolution of bast fibre spinning and silk-reeling in the history of China. These operations are the basic techniques in the production of yarn and thread, pre-requisite to weaving, and any study of Chinese textile technology must start with the raw material obtained from fibre plants such as hemp, ramie, jute, cotton, etc, and silk reeled off from cocoons of the domestic silkworm. The time-span covered runs from the neolithic to the nineteenth century. Archaeological and pictoral evidence, the bulk of it hitherto unpublished in the West, is brought together with Chinese textual sources (which are extensively translated and interpreted) to illustrate Chinese achievements in this field. Professor Kuhn's study reveals the way in which Chinese textile-technological inventiveness has influenced textile production in other regions of the world and in medieval Europe. It explains how textile technology reached its high point between the tenth and thirteenth centuries and attempts to indicate the reasons for its subsequent relative decline. The development of the textile industry in Europe was a key factor in the rise of capitalism. In the case of China after Sung times, textile technology and the organisation of textile labour may help indicate why such a development did not take place in China.
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Kuhn, Dieter was born on May 29, 1946 in Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. Son of Rudi and Ruth (Mühlhäuser) Kuhn.
Master of Arts, University Cologne, Federal Republic Germany, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy, University Cologne, Federal Republic Germany, 1977. Dr.phil.habil., Freie University Berlin, 1985.
Research associate, East Asian History of Science Library., Cambridge, England, 1977-1980; assistant, U. Heidelberg, Federal Republic Germany, 1980-1985; privatdozent, Freie U. Berlin, 1985-1988; professor, U. Würzburg, Bavaria., Germany, since 1988; senator, U. Würzburg, Germany, 1992-1996; prodekan, U. Würzburg, Germany, 1988-1990, 92-94; dean philosophy faculty, U. Würzburg, Germany, 1994-1996.
(This study, the first of two parts, gives a comprehensive...)
(Song-Dynastie (960 Bis 1279), Die: Eine neue Gesellschaft...)
Married Ingrid Josefa Leisin, July 31, 1970. 1 child, Tobias.