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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sinica Leidensia.
- Sinica Leidensia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Xu, Guangqi, 1562-1633.
- Xu, Guangqi.
- China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (479 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2001]
- Summary:
- Xu Guangqi was one of the first promoters of Western science in China, worked together with the Jesuit Matteo Ricci on translations of Western science, was one of the first Chinese converts, a high-ranking statesman, organizer of a major calendar reform, introduced Western weapons into the Chinese army, etc. etc. The current volume is a composite profile of this complex figure that is solidly anchored in Chinese (and Western) primary sources. A major achievement.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-48297-0
- OCLC:
- 1263026640
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