Statecraft and intellectual renewal in Late Ming China : : the cross-cultural synthesis of Xu Guangqi : (1562-1633) / / edited by Catherine Jami, Peter Engelfriet, Gregory Blue.

• Superior document: Sinica Leidensia
• TeilnehmendeR: Jami, Catherine,; Engelfriet, Peter M.,; Blue, Gregory,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Sinica Leidensia.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (479 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations and Maps -- Introduction -- Part I: Historiography and Context -- 1. Xu Guangqi in the West: Early Jesuit Sources and the Construction of an Identity -- 2. Xu Guangqi in his Context: The World of the Shanghai Gentry -- 3. The Image of Xu Guangqi as Author of Christian Texts -- Part II: Statesman, Confucian, and Christian -- 4. Xu Guangqi and Buddhism -- 5. Xu Guangqi's Conversion as a Multifaceted Process -- 6. A Note on the Context of Xu Guangqi's Conversion -- 7. Opposition to Western Science and the Nanjing Persecution -- 8. Sun Yuanhua: A Christian Convert Who Put Xu Guangqi's Military Reform Policy into Practice -- Part III: Experimenting in the Fields of Tradition -- 9. From the Elements to Calendar Reform: Xu Guangqi's Shaping of Scientific Knowledge -- 10. Xu Guangqi's Attempts to Integrate Western and Chinese Mathematics -- 11. On the Star Catalogue and Atlas of Chongzhen Lishu -- 12. Who was the Author of the Nongzhen Quanshu? -- 13. Astronomy, Chinese and Western: The Influence of Xu Guangqi's Views in the Early and Mid-Qing -- 14. The Influence of Euclid's Elements on Xu Guangqi and his Successors -- Xu Guangqi's Career: An Annotated Chronology -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors -- Sinica Leidensia.