Date | 1999 |
Publish_location | Chicago |
Publisher | [University of Chicago] |
Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
Edition | |
Language | English |
Record_type | Data CD (PDF) |
Series | |
Shelf | Digital Archives |
Call Number | BV3417.H75 1999cd |
Description | CD-ROM (xiii, 261 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.) |
Note | French Jesuits and the mission to China : science, religion, history / by Florence C. Hsia. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of History, 1999. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 237-261). Includes abstract. Digital CD-ROM: PDF document. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999. |
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Subject | Jesuits, French--China--Late Ming-early Qing dynasties, 1500-1800--Contributions in science Science--China--History--17th-18th centuries--Jesuit contributions Science--China--History--17th century Astronomy--China--History--17th century Jesuits--China--16th-18th centuries--Contributions in astronomy Catholic Church--Missions--China--History--17th century Jesuits--Missions--China--17th century |
Date | 2009 |
Publish_location | Chicago |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
Edition | |
Language | English |
Record_type | Book, Digital Book (PDF) |
Series | |
Shelf | Hallway Cases, Digital Archives |
Call Number | BV3417.H75 2009 |
Description | xv, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.+pdf |
Note | Sojourners in a strange land : Jesuits and their scientific missions in late imperial China / Florence C. Hsia. Local access dig.pdf. [Hsia-Sojouners in a strange land.pdf] Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. Hsia shows how these missionary-scientists remade themselves as they negotiated the place of the profane sciences in a religious enterprise. Sojourners in a Strange Land develops a genealogy of Jesuit conceptions of scientific life within the Chinese mission field from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Analyzing the printed record of their endeavors in natural philosophy and mathematics, Hsia identifies three models of the missionary man of science by their genres of writing: mission history, travelogue, and academic collection. Drawing on the history of early modern Europe’s scientific, religious, and print culture, she uses the elaboration and reception of these scientific personae to construct the first collective biography of the Jesuit missionary-scientist’s many incarnations in late imperial China. --Publisher page |
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Subject | Science--China--History--17th-18th centuries--Jesuit contributions Jesuits--China--History--16th-17th centuries Jesuits--China--Qing dynasty, 1644-1911--Contributions in science and technology Jesuits--Missions--China--History--16th-18th centuries |
ISBN | 9780226355597 |
LCCN | 2009010016 |