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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Qiong, 1964-

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions

Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesuits--Missions--China--History--17th century.

Jesuits.

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.

East and West.

History.

Intercultural communication.

Jesuit scientists.

Intellectual life.

Missions.

China--Intellectual life--17th century.

China.

Jesuit scientists--China--History--17th century.

Intercultural communication--China--History--17th century.

East and West--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

xx, 435 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2015.

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.

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.

Notes:

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

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9004284370

9789004284371

OCLC:

900685571

Publisher Number:

99963967949