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1 online resource |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"Distinguished historian Benjamin A Elman's collective volume on the history of science in imperial China, brings together over 30 years of historical literature on the subject. With updates to the literature and new material including transcripts of podcasts and translated interview articles, Science in China takes the reader on a journey starting in the early 17th century with the missionary efforts of the Jesuits in China, and ending with the Protestant missions in the 19th century. These two milestone encounters brought Western sciences to local Chinese scholars with great success in shaping modern Chinese science. Elman studies the interaction between Western and Chinese sciences through philological research and evidence, and treats the two encounters not as separate events but as a continuum of creative exchange of scientific knowledge and discourse."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Vendor supplied metadata |
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Elman, Benjamin A., 1946- On their own terms
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| SUBJECT |
On their own terms (Elman, Benjamin A.) fast |
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Science -- China -- History -- 17th century
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Science -- China -- History -- 18th century
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Science -- China -- History -- 19th century
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SCIENCE -- History.
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Science
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ho, Yi Kai, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789814651110 |
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9814651117 |
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