Author: Blue, Gregory

Death by a thousand cuts
Date2008
Publish_locationCambridge, MA
PublisherHarvard University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
ShelfDirector's Office
Call NumberHV8699.C6 B76 2008
Descriptionxi, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
NoteDeath by a thousand cuts / Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, Gregory Blue.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-312) and index.
The execution of Wang Weiqin -- The laws of punishment in late Imperial China -- The origins of lingchi and problems of its legitimacy -- Lingchi in the Ming Dynasty -- Tormenting the dead -- Chinese torture in the Western mind -- Misreading lingchi -- Georges Bataille's interpretation -- Lingering on.
SubjectTorture--China--History Capital punishment--China--History
ISBN9780674027732
LCCN2007031346
Statecraft and intellectual renewal in late Ming China : the cross-cultural synthesis of Xu Guangqi (1562-1633)
Date2001
Publish_locationLeiden
PublisherBrill
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook, Digital Book (PDF)
SeriesSinica Leidensia ; 50
ShelfHallway Cases, Digital Archives
Call NumberDS753.6.H87 S75 2001 + pdf
Descriptionviii, 466 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. + pdf
NoteStatecraft and intellectual renewal in late Ming China : the cross-cultural synthesis of Xu Guangqi (1562-1633) / edited by Catherine Jami, Peter Engelfriet, and Gregory Blue.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-455) and index.

CONTENTS: Acknowledgements -- Illustrations and Maps – Introduction / Catherine Jami, Peter Engelfriet, and Gregory Blue.
Part I: Historiography and Context:
1. Xu Guangqi in the West: Early Jesuit Sources and the Construction of an Identity / Gregory Blue -- 2. Xu Guangqi in his Context: The World of the Shanghai Gentry / Timothy Brook -- 3. The Image of Xu Guangqi as Author of Christian Texts / Ad Dudink.
Part II: Statesman, Confucian, and Christian:
4. Xu Guangqi and Buddhism / Eric Zürcher -- 5. Xu Guangqi’s Conversion as a Multifaceted Process / Nicolas Standaert -- 6. A Note on the Context of Xu Guangqi's Conversion / Jacques Gernet -– 7. Opposition to Western Science and the Nanjing Persecution / Ad Dudink -- 8. Sun Yuanhua: A Christian Convert Who Put Xu Guangqi’s Military Reform Policy into Practice / Huang Yi-Long.
Part III : Experimenting in the Fields of Tradition:
9. From the Elements to Calendar Reform: Xu Guangqi's Shaping of Scientific Knowledge / Keizo Hashimoto and Catherine Jami -- 10. Xu Guangqi’s Attempts to Integrate Western and Chinese Mathematics / Peter Engelfriet and Siu Man-Keung -- 11. On the Star Catalogue and Atlas of Chongzhen Lishu / Sun Xiaochun -- 12. Who was the Author of the Nongzhen Quanshu? / Francesca Bray and George Métailié -- 13. Astronomy, Chinese and Western: The Influence of Xu Guangqi’s Views in the Early and Mid-Qing / Han Qi -- 14. The Influence of Euclid’s Elements on Xu Guangqi and his Successors / Horng Wann-Sheng -- Xu Guangqi’s Career: An Annotated Chronology / Ad Dudink.
Glossary – Abbreviations--Bibliography—Index--About the Contributors.

Local access dig.pdf. [Jami-Statecraft.pdf]

SubjectXu Guangqi 徐光啟, 1562-1633 Science--China--History--17th century China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
ISBN9004120580 ; 9789004120587
LCCN2001025667