Heidegger's critique of modern technology and its connection to metaphysics has found a receptive audience in the East. However, the concept that there exists only one — originally Greek — type of technology has become an obstacle to any original critical understanding of technology in contemporary Chinese thought. Yuk Hui asserts the urgent need to imagine a specifically Chinese philosophy of technology, capable of responding to Heidegger's challenge while questioning the assertion of technology and technologies as anthropologically universal.

This study of the historical and metaphysical question of technology draws on the ideas of Jean-François Lyotard, Gilbert Simondon, and Bernard Stiegler. It presents the history of modern Eastern philosophical thought, including figures such as Feng Youlan, Mou Zongsan, and Keiji Nishitani, largely unknown to Russian readers. The study sheds new light on the question of technology in China.

Why has technology never been thematized in Chinese thought? Why has time never been a genuine question for Chinese philosophy? How has the traditional concept of Qi transformed in relation to Dao as China embraced technological modernity and Westernization?

In "The Question Concerning Technology in China," a systematic historical overview of the main concepts of traditional Chinese thought is accompanied by an original investigation of these issues. This leads to the question: how can Chinese thought today contribute to a critical reassessment of globalized technology from cosmotechnical perspectives?