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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Editor's Note; Author's Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction -- From Value to Fact: The Emergence of Phonology as a Precise Discipline in Late Imperial China; Chapter 2: Native Traditions of Natural Studies during the Ming-Qing Transition, 1600-1800; Interest in Natural Studies during the Ming Dynasty; Investigating Things & Extending Knowledge; Ming Civil Examinations and Gezhi; "High Qing" Evidential Studies and the Scope of Gezhixue; Chapter 3: Some Comparative Issues -- Ming-Qing Border Defense and Jesuit Learning in Late Imperial China; Debates about Freedom and Curiosity |
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China, India, and JapanPre- Jesuit Cartography and Descriptive Geography; Ming Knowledge of Foreign Countries; Cartography and Ming Military Defense; Matteo Ricci's Mappa Mundi; The Jesuits in Late Imperial China; Civil Examinations, Natural Studies, and Anomalies; Final Comments; Chapter 4: The Jesuit Role as "Technical Experts" in "High Qing"; Mensuration and Cartography in the 18th Century; Cartography, Sino-Russian Relations, and Qing Imperial Interests; Jesuits and Mapping the Qing Empire; French and Russian Imperial Cartography |
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The Jesuit Role in High Qing Arts, Instruments, and TechnologyClock making in the Kangxi Era; Imperial Factories for Glassware; Jesuits and Garden Architecture; Final Comments; Chapter 5: Western Learning and Evidential Research in the 18th Century; The Academy of Mathematics in Beijing; The Kangxi Era Compendium of Observational and Computational Astronomy; Revival of Ancient Chinese Mathematics; Recovery and Collation of Ancient Chinese Mathematical Works; Reconstruction of the Ten Computational Classics; Recovery of Song-Yuan Mathematical Works |
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The Critique of Western Learning in the Qianlong Imperial LibraryAstronomy and Mathematics in the Qing Imperial Library; Ruan Yuan and the Biographies of Mathematical Astronomers; Literati Natural Studies: Classics and Mathematics; Mathematics among Literati in an Age of Evidential Research; The Usefulness of Recovering Ancient Mathematics; Chapter 6: The China Prize Essay Contest and the Late Qing Promotion of Modern Science; Translations at the Jiangnan Arsenal; Shanghai Polytechnic and The Chinese Scientific and Industrial Magazine; Contest Procedures and Official Patronage |
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Literati ParticipationPrize Essay Topics and Their Scientific Content; Medical Questions as Prize Essay Topics; Natural Theology, Darwin, and Evolution; Chapter 7: The Great Reversal: The "Rise of Japan" and the "Fall of China" after 1895; The Scope and Scale of the Foreign Affairs Movement; The Role of Regional Arsenals in the Self-Strengthening Movement (Ziqiang yundong ); Technical Learning in the Jiangnan Arsenal; Shipbuilding in the Jiangnan Arsenal; The Fuzhou Navy Yard; Western Science in Translation; Science at the Beijing School of Foreign Languages and Elsewhere |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Elman, Benjamin A., 1946- On their own terms.
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Science -- China -- History -- 18th century.
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Science. |
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China. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Science -- China -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ho, Yi Kai, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ho, Yi Kai. Science in China, 1600-1900 9789814651103 (DLC) 2014038710 (OCoLC)891942128 |
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9789814651110 electronic book |
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9814651117 electronic book |
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9789814651103 |
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9814651109 |
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9781938134470 |
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1938134478 |
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