03658nam 2200685 450 991046089730332120200909225244.090-04-28438-910.1163/9789004284388(CKB)3710000000415370(MiAaPQ)EBC2063807(OCoLC)910662444(nllekb)BRILL9789004284388(Au-PeEL)EBL2063807(CaPaEBR)ebr11061985(CaONFJC)MIL792522(EXLCZ)99371000000041537020150617h20152015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMaking the new world their own Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery /by Qiong ZhangLeiden, Netherlands ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :Brill,2015.©20151 online resource (455 pages) illustrationsScientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions,2352-1325 ;Volume 1590-04-28437-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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"History of science and medicine library.Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ;Volume 15.ScienceChinaHistory17th centuryCosmology, ChineseHistory17th centuryCartographyChinaHistory17th centuryGeographyChinaHistory17th centuryEast and WestHistory17th centuryScholarsChinaHistory17th centuryJesuit scientistsChinaHistory17th centuryIntercultural communicationChinaHistory17th centuryChinaIntellectual life17th centuryElectronic books.ScienceHistoryCosmology, ChineseHistoryCartographyHistoryGeographyHistoryEast and WestHistoryScholarsHistoryJesuit scientistsHistoryIntercultural communicationHistory509.51/09032Zhang Qiong1964-959559MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460897303321Making the new world their own2174412UNINA