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Author Zhang, Qiong, 1964- author.

Title Making the new world their own : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery / by Qiong Zhang.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions ; v. 15
History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 15.
Summary "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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Jesuits -- Missions -- China -- History -- 17th century.
Jesuits.
Missions.
China.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Science -- China -- History -- 17th century.
Science.
Cosmology, Chinese -- History -- 17th century.
Cosmology, Chinese.
Cartography -- China -- History -- 17th century.
Cartography.
Geography -- China -- History -- 17th century.
Geography.
Scholars -- China -- History -- 17th century.
Scholars.
China -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
Intellectual life.
Jesuit scientists -- China -- History -- 17th century.
Jesuit scientists.
Intercultural communication -- China -- History -- 17th century.
Intercultural communication.
East and West -- History -- 17th century.
East and West.
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Zhang, Qiong, 1964- Making the new world their own 9789004284371 (DLC) 2015003481 (OCoLC)900685571
ISBN 9789004284388 electronic book
9004284389 electronic book
9789004284371
9004284370