Keywords:
Jesuits-Missions-China-History-17th century.
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Science-China-History-17th century.
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Cosmology, Chinese-History-17th century.
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Cartography-China-History-17th century.
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Geography-China-History-17th century.
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East and West-History-17th century.
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Scholars-China-History-17th century.
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Jesuit scientists-China-History-17th century.
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Intercultural communication-China-History-17th century.
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China-Intellectual life-17th century.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Making the New World Their Own offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars came to understand that the earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with the Jesuit missionaries in the seventeenth century.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (455 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789004284388
Series Statement:
Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions Series ; v.15
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=2063807
DDC:
509.51/09032
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Making the New World Their Own: Chinese Encounters with Jesuit Science in the Age of Discovery -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures and Table -- 1: Introduction: Globalization, Localization, and Cultural Resilience -- Another New World Encounter: Jesuit Accommodation and Chinese Cultural Renewal -- Historiographical Context, Thematic Focus, and Approaches -- Outlines of Chapters 2-7 -- 2: Mapping a Contact Zone -- The Jesuits in the Late Ming Discourse of Exotica -- Matteo Ricci's World Map as a Product of the Contact Zone -- Discussions on the Sphericity of the Earth and Its Implications -- Introduction of the Wider World Outside China -- The Fantastic Narrative Style of Ricci's Legends -- The Valorizing of Western Christendom -- Conclusion -- 3: Divergent Discourses on the Physical Earth in Premodern China -- The European Context of the Notion of the Terraqueous Globe -- Discourses on the Physical Earth in Premodern China: A Working Classification -- Dadi and Sihai: Images of Land and Sea in Early China -- The "Tribute of Yu" and the Formation of a Geopolitical Discourse on the Four Seas -- The Square-Earth-and-Four-Seas Model of the World in Premodern Chinese Cosmological Discourses -- Contours of Land and Sea in Chinese Empirical Maritime Literature -- Zhou Qufei (jinshi 1163) -- Hong Mai (1123-1202) -- Cheng Dachang (1123-1195) -- Conclusion -- 4: The Introduction and Refashioning of the Terraqueous Globe -- Jesuit Introduction of the Notion of the Terraqueous Globe -- General Reception of the Notion of the Globe in Seventeenth-Century China -- Patterns of Chinese Appropriation of the Terraqueous Globe: Examples from the Fang School -- Xiong Mingyu (1579-1649) -- Fang Yizhi (1611-1671) and Jie Xuan (1613-1695) -- China, the "Far West," and the Goals of the Fang School.
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Conclusion -- 5: Translating the Four Seas across Space and Time -- Defining the Four Seas in Jesuit Hydrographic Nomenclature -- Mapping the Four Seas in Late Ming and Early Qing Yugong Scholarship -- Mao Ruizheng's (jinshi 1601) Compendium of Commentaries on the "Tribute of Yu" -- Xia Yunyi's (1596?-1645) Combined Commentary on the "Tribute of Yu" -- The New Classicists Zhu Heling (1606-1683) and Gu Yanwu (1613-1682) -- Hu Wei's (1633-1714) Boring into the "Tribute of Yu" -- The Merger of Yugong Studies and Renaissance World Geography -- "Map of the Four Seas" by Xu Fa (fl. 1668-1681) -- "Map of the 'Tribute of Yu'" Attributed to Jie Xuan (1613-1695) -- "General Map of the Four Seas" by Chen Lunjiong (ca. 1683-ca. 1747) -- Conclusion -- 6: Taking in a New World -- The Story of the Folangji: A Myth-History in the Chinese Discovery of the Wider Early Modern World -- The Ox Hide Story and Tales of Cannibalism -- The History behind the Myths -- Portuguese Settlement in Macao and the Late Ming Ethnographic Discourse on the "Barbarians of Macao" -- The "Folangji Effect": Jesuit Presentations of Europe and the World as Counter-Myth-Histories -- Ricci's Segregation of Folangi from Europe on His Chinese World Map -- Giulio Aleni (1582-1649), Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-1688), and the Anti-Christian Movements in China -- Aleni's Whitewashing in His 1623 Records of Lands beyond the Jurisdiction of the Imperial Geographer -- Integrating the New with the Old -- Guo Zizhang's (1543-1618) Perception of Ricci as a "Loyal Follower of Zou Yan" -- Xu Fa's (fl. 1668-1681) Correlation of the Jesuit Five Continents with Their Buddhist Counterparts -- Xu Yingqiu's (?-1621) New Reading of the "Four Barbarians" -- The Syntheses of Lu Ciyun (fl. 1662) and Xiong Renlin (1604-1666) -- Conclusion -- 7: Conclusion: Jesuit Science and the Shape of Chinese Early Modernity.
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Bibliography -- Index.
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