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Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery

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Making the new world their own
Qiong Zhang
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Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery

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"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"--Provided by publisher.

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Brill
Language
English
Pages
435

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Subjects
East and West, Cartography, Missions, Geography, Jesuit scientists, Science, Chinese Cosmology, Intellectual life, Jesuits, History, Scholars, Intercultural communication, Science, china, Cosmology, Scientists, Jesuits, china, East and west
Places
China
Times
17th century

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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-414) and index.

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Leiden, Boston
Series
Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions -- volume 15

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Dewey Decimal Class
509.51/09032
Library of Congress
Q127.C5 Z4656 2015, Q127.C5Z4656 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 435 pages
Number of pages
435

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL30391554M
ISBN 13
9789004284371, 9789004284388
LCCN
2015003481

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