Making the New World Their Own : Chinese Encounters with Jesuit Science in the Age of Discovery

Qiong Zhang

ISBN 10: 9004284370 / ISBN 13: 9789004284371

Published by Brill Jun 2015, 2015

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Neuware - 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. Winner of the Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) '2015 Academic Excellence Award'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making the New World Their Own : Chinese Encounters with Jesuit Science in the Age of Discovery
• Publisher: Brill Jun 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004284370
• ISBN 13: 9789004284371
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 244W x 159H x 30D millimeters 244 millimeters width by 159 millimeters height by 30 millimeters depth
• Weight: 757 grams

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Synopsis

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.

Winner of the Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) "2015 Academic Excellence Award"

About the Author

Qiong Zhang, Ph. D. (1996, Harvard) teaches at Wake Forest University. Her research intersects with late imperial Chinese intellectual and cultural history and the history of the Jesuit mission in China. She has published many articles in these areas.