Making the New World Their Own

Chinese Encounters with Jesuit Science in the Age of Discovery
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-28437-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 435 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 757 g

Reihe: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, Qiong

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction: Globalization, Localization, and Cultural Resilience
2 Mapping a Contact Zone
3 Divergent Discourses on the Physical Earth in Premodern China
4 The Introduction and Refashioning of the Terraqueous Globe
5 Translating the Four Seas across Space and Time
6 Taking in a New World
7 Conclusion: Jesuit Science and the Shape of Early Chinese Modernity
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.