Science In China, 1600-1900: Essays By Benjamin A ElmanDistinguished historian Benjamin A Elman's collective volume on the history of science in imperial China, brings together over 30 years of historical literature on the subject. With updates to the literature and new material including transcripts of podcasts and translated interview articles, Science in China takes the reader on a journey starting in the early 17th century with the missionary efforts of the Jesuits in China, and ending with the Protestant missions in the 19th century. These two milestone encounters brought Western sciences to local Chinese scholars with great success in shaping modern Chinese science. Elman studies the interaction between Western and Chinese sciences through philological research and evidence, and treats the two encounters not as separate events but as a continuum of creative exchange of scientific knowledge and discourse. |
Contents
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Some Comparative Issues MingQing Border Defense and Jesuit Learning in Late Imperial China | 39 |
The Jesuit Role as Technical Experts in High Qing | 77 |
Western Learning and Evidential Research in the 18th Century | 103 |
The China Prize Essay Contest and the Late Qing Promotion of Modern Science | 139 |
The Great Reversal The Rise of Japan and the Fall of China after 1895 | 173 |
Rethinking the 20thCentury Denigration of Traditional Chinese Science and Medicine in the 21st Century | 215 |
Appendices | 251 |
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Science in China, 1600-1900: Essays by Benjamin A. Elman Benjamin A. Elman,Yi Kai Ho No preview available - 2015 |
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