The discovery of Chinese logic / / by Joachim Kurtz.

Until 1898, Chinese and foreign scholars agreed that China had never known, needed, or desired a field of study similar in scope and purpose to European logic. Less than a decade later, Chinese literati claimed that the discipline had been part of the empire’s learned heritage for more than two mill...

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Superior document:Modern Chinese philosophy, v. 1
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Modern Chinese philosophy ; v. 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource (488 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • First encounters : Jesuit logica in the late Ming and early Qing
  • Haphazard overtures : logic in nineteenth-century Protestant writings
  • Great expectations : Yan Fu and the discovery of European logic
  • Spreading the word : logic in late Qing education and popular discourse
  • Heritage unearthed : the discovery of Chinese logic
  • Textbooks on logic adapted from Japanese, 1902-1911
  • Logical terms in early-twentieth-century textbooks.