Making the new world their own : : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery / / by Qiong Zhang.
In Making the New World Their Own , Qiong Zhang offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars in the late Ming and early Qing came to understand that the earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with Matteo Ricci, Giulio Aleni and other Jesuits. These encounters formed...
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Zhang, Qiong, 1964- author. Making the new world their own : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery / by Qiong Zhang. 1st ed. Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2015. ©2015 1 online resource (455 pages) : illustrations. text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, 2352-1325 ; Volume 15 In Making the New World Their Own , Qiong Zhang offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars in the late Ming and early Qing came to understand that the earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with Matteo Ricci, Giulio Aleni and other Jesuits. These encounters formed a fascinating chapter in the early modern global integration of space. It unfolded as a series of mutually constitutive and competing scholarly discourses that reverberated in fields from cosmology, cartography and world geography to classical studies. Zhang demonstrates how scholars such as Xiong Mingyu, Fang Yizhi, Jie Xuan, Gu Yanwu, and Hu Wei appropriated Jesuit ideas to rediscover China’s place in the world and reconstitute their classical tradition. Winner of the Chinese Historians in the United States ( CHUS ) "2015 Academic Excellence Award" Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: Globalization, localization, and cultural resilience -- Mapping a contact zone -- Divergent discourses on the physical earth in premodern China -- The introduction and refashioning of the terraqueous globe -- Translating the four seas across space and time -- Taking in a new world -- Conclusion: Jesuit science and the shape of Chinese early modernity. Description based on print version record. Science China History 17th century. Cosmology, Chinese History 17th century. Cartography China History 17th century. Geography China History 17th century. East and West History 17th century. Scholars China History 17th century. Jesuit scientists China History 17th century. Intercultural communication China History 17th century. China Intellectual life 17th century. Jesuits Missions China History 17th century. 90-04-28437-0 History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; Volume 15. |
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