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

Author/creator	Zhang, Qiong, 1964-
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.
Description	xx, 435 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Science--China --History --17th century. Cosmology, Chinese--History --17th century. Cartography--China --History --17th century. Geography--China --History --17th century. Scholars--China --History --17th century. Jesuit scientists--China --History --17th century. Jesuits--Missions --China --History --17th century. Intercultural communication--China --History --17th century. East and West--History --17th century. China--Intellectual life --17th century.

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Series	Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions, 2352-1325 ; volume 15
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.
Scope and content	"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 note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-414) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2015003481
ISBN	9789004284371 (hardback)

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