Francesca BrayFrancesca Bray is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies (1994), Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China (1997), Tchnology and Society in Ming China, 1368–1644 (2000), and Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered (2013). Read More Read Less