"An encounter between Christian medical missions and Chinese medicine in modern history : the case of Benjamin Hobson" / Wong Man Kong 黃文江.

Religions 15 (2024).

This article belongs to the Special Issue Expressions of Chinese Christianity in Texts and Contexts: In Memory of Our Mentor Professor R. G. Tiedemann (1941–2019).

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Abstract:

This article discusses how and why Christian medical missionaries established their foothold in Chinese society through the medical career of Benjamin Hobson, who was active in China from the late 1830s to the 1850s. Apart from his evangelical work among the Chinese, one of his key contributions was the new medical vocabularies he created to communicate medical knowledge. In addition to literary considerations, Hobson had his strategies for sharing modern medical knowledge. Moreover, he was prepared to debate with the Chinese over the validity of the pulse theory. The debate did not happen, however. His intention to establish the case for the superior position of Western medicine was not contested. His medical texts, at best, became the necessary underpinning for introducing modern Western medicine to China. When Western medical college projects took place in China at the turn of the century, biomedicine took over as the key paradigm, with Hobson’s medical texts being of limited use.

Languages of science between Western and Eastern civilizations / Carlo Ferrari et al.

Contents

Carlo Ferrari, Fabio Guidetti, and Chiara Ombretta Tommasi, Introduction--Alberto Anrò, Method Matters: Languages of Exact Sciences in Sanskrit and LatinCorpora--Sara Procaccini, Antroponimi, toponimi e realia nei testi latini sulla Cina--Noël Golvers, Jesuit Libraries on Western Sciences (xi xue) in China in the Seventeenth–Eighteenth Century--Sven Günther, The Role of “Western” Antiquity in G.P. Maffei’s Historiae Indicae, Book 6: China--Michele Castelnovi, Clausa recludo: Martino Martini and the Dissemination in Europe of Cartographic Knowledge about China--Claudia von Collani, Astronomy East and West: Johann Adam Schall von Bell 湯若望 and the Chinese Calendar--Arianna Magnani, The Human Body “Translated” Across Geographical and Cultural Borders: Medical Knowledge Circulating Between China and Europe from Late Ming to Early Qing--Tiziana Lippiello, The Language of Wisdom Between Chinese and Latin: Prospero Intorcetta and the Doctrine of the Mean--Li Hui 李慧, Sanctissimus magister: On the Vita Confusii (1739) by Carlo Orazi da Castorano--Kim Kihoon 김기훈, A Short Introduction to the Codices of Matteo Ricci’s Jiaoyoulun 交友論--Antonio De Caro, Teaching Jesuit Spirituality in Nineteenth-century Zi-ka-wei: The Dissertationes Theologicae (1849–1856) and the Ascetica Nomenclatio (1877) by Fr. Angelo A. Zottoli S.J.--Raissa De Gruttola, Franciscans and Latin Language in China: An Introduction to the Missionary Periodical Apostolicum--Aldo Petrucci, Diritto romano e tradizione giuridica cinese nell’ultimo secolo--Federico Andrea Galatolo, Gabriele Martino, Mario G.C.A. Cimino, and Chiara Ombretta Tommasi, SERICA Digital Library: ricerca di testi antichi attraverso Neural NLP--Bibliography--Editors and Contributors--Index of Names

Local access dig.pdf (open access). [Ferrari et al-Languages of science between Western and Eastern civilizations.pdf]