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02997aam a2200445 i 4500 001 D328E4DC6B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150410s2015 ne ab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015003481 020 $a 9004284370 (hardback) 020 $a 9789004284371 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)900685571 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d ERASA $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d CDX $d OHX $d CUY $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a Q127 C5 Z4656 2015 100 1 $a Zhang, Qiong, $d 1964- 245 10 $a Making the new world their own : $b Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery / $c by Qiong Zhang. 264 1 $a Leiden ; $b Brill, $c 2015. 300 $a xx, 435 pages : $b illustrations (some color), maps ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 520 2 $a "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"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-414) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Science $z China $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Cosmology, Chinese $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Cartography $z China $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Geography $z China $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Scholars $z China $x History $y 17th century. 651 0 $a China $x Intellectual life $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Jesuit scientists $z China $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Jesuits $x History $z China $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Intercultural communication $z China $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a East and West $x History $y 17th century. 830 0 $a History of science and medicine library. $p Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220706015820.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D328E4DC6B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search