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| The Transmission of Chinese Technique Objects on the Silk Road: Path and Mechanism |
| Pan Tianbo |
| Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences,Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119 |
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Abstract From the perspective of global history,ancient China’s technological objects, as relics,have become a landscape appreciated globally. In the cross-cultural communication on the Silk Road,ancient China’s technological objects,by virtue of religion,trade and tributes presentation,have promoted the development from technological objects to civilized objects throughout the world, highlighted the spreading mechanism shifting from the displacement of objects to the qualitative change of ideology,and demonstrated the function and value of the global spreading of ancient China’s technological objects. A testimony of the global spreading of ancient China’s technology through the Silk Road conduce to the counterattack against anti-technologists’ views and the prejudice of Western of Oriental centralism,resurrecting the outstanding achievements and unique value of Chinese culture in the system of global civilization.
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Received: 20 January 2021
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