Knowing "things and affairs" in premodern China -- Nature, crafts, and knowing -- Private affairs -- The Ming dynasty and the Song family -- Childhood and education -- Driving forces: the appointment of Chen Qixin -- Song's writing campaign -- Affairs of honor -- Knowledge in terms of qi: universal rulings and rationality -- The truth in heaven and the order of qi -- The power of heaven: omens and eclipses -- Systems of value: the sage-kings, the authority of the past, and man's role -- The knowledge in crafts -- Public affairs -- Crafts and the Ming state -- Man's nature (xing) and talents -- Abilities and education -- Social permeability and the commercialization of society: the merchant -- Customs and habits -- Written affairs -- Rhetoric of knowledge inquiry: texts and experience -- Images, technology and argument -- Observing the nature of qi: theory and practice in knowledge construction -- The complexity of qi transformations: composites and compositions of qi -- Formulating the transformation -- Reading the signature of yin-yang qi in gas, salt, wind, and rain -- Growth and decay: wood, corpses, and the proportional relation of yin and yang -- Glitches in the matrix of qi: the concepts of ashes and particles -- Acoustics -- An anatomy of sound -- The human voice -- Volume and velocity -- Resonance and harmony -- Conclusion. leaving the theater -- Epilogue. aftermath -- By virtue of friendship: literary sponsorship -- By virtue of position: outside and opposition -- By virtue of loyalty: moral obligations -- An artifact in transmission: The editions of the Works of heaven -- Writing about practical knowledge in the Chinese literati world -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1. Chinese dynasties and various rulers -- Appendix 2. Song Yingxing curriculum vitae -- Appendix 3. Editions of the Tiangong kaiwu.

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Philological study of the topic (Diagrams of the Records of Technology). Note on Kaogong ji with reference to the original: "... earliest work with an interest for the historian of Chinese technology, the Kaogong ji (Record of the scrutiny of crafts). It is part of the Zhouli 周禮 and dates from the fifth century BC. It contains details of the making of carriages, weapons, boats, and musical instruments and details on compounding bronze."--Cf. Wilkinson, Chinese history, a manual, p. 667.

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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-414) and index.

"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.
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Chinese dynasties -- I. Introduction. Prologue ; Ming classification on the eve of Jesuit contact -- II. Natural studies and the Jesuits. The Late Ming calendar crisis and Gregorian reform ; Sino-Jesuit accommodations during the seventeenth century ; The limits of Western learning in the early eighteenth century ; The Jesuit role as experts in high Qing cartography and technology -- III. Evidential research and natural studies. Evidential research and the restoration of ancient learning ; Seeking the truth and high Qing mathematics -- IV. Modern science and the Protestants. Protestants, education, and modern science to 1880 ; The construction of modern science in late Qing China -- V. Qing reformism and modern science. Government arsenals, science, and technology in China after 1860 ; Displacement of traditional Chinese science and medicine in the twentieth century -- Appendixes. Tang mathematical classics ; Some translations of chemistry, 1855-1873 ; Science outline series, 1882-1898 ; Partial chronological list of arsenals, etc., in China, 1861-1892 ; Table of contents for the 1886 Primers for science studies (Gezhi qimeng) ; Twenty-three fields of the sciences in the 1886 Primers for science studies ; Science compendia published in China from 1877 to 1903.

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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.

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"...Song's chapters cover the growing of grains and their preparation; clothing materials; salt technology; sugar technology; ceramics; bronze casting; ships and carts; iron metallurgy; calcination of stones; vegetable oils and fats; paper making ; metallurgy of silver, lead, tin, copper, and zinc; military technology; vermillion and ink; yeast and pearls and gems'-- Cf. Wilkinson, Chinese History, a manual, pp.667-668.

Chapter keywords: growing of grains. wheat, rice;dyes; preparations of food grains; salt; sugar production; ceramics; casting and forging metal; boats and carts; hammer forging; calcination of stones; vegetable oils and fats; paper; metals; weapons; vermilion and ink; yeasts; pearls and gems; glossary; summary of dynasties; 24 solar terms; equivalence of weights and measures in metric units; transmission of techniques from China to the West.

卷一至卷六，包括治狀、兵事、奏議、揭帖等內容。
卷七至卷十一，“儒學”、“天學”。 “儒學”二種，包括《學庸書解》、《士約》，合為一卷；“天學”四種，包括《畏天愛人極論》、《仁會約》、《杜奧定先生東來渡海苦跡》、《崇一堂日記隨筆》，各為一卷，共四卷。
卷十二，“音學”一卷，包括〈西儒耳目資敘〉、〈西儒耳目資釋疑〉、〈三韻兌考問答〉、〈元母生生總圖〉等。
卷十三至卷十八，“制器學”，包括《遠西奇器圖說錄最》三卷、《新制諸器圖說》一卷、《守禦器具圖說》一卷、《額辣濟亞牖造諸器圖說》（殘篇）一卷等。
卷十九至卷二十二，包括書牘、詩、曲、序、跋、議、記、贊、銘、雜文等內容。其中卷二十一序、跋，收入十八篇。
附錄一，是有關王徵家族世系的史料，凡兩種，均為王徵後裔所撰。
附錄二，是本編校者編撰的王徵年譜。
附錄三，是有關王徵的傳記資料，以及贊賀、祭文，共精選十四篇。
附錄四，是有關王徵著譯的序、跋、提要，共精選三十篇。
附錄五，是有關王徵著譯的考辨，僅選入李之勤先生撰寫的長文《明末陝西涇陽王徵著譯考》。

Bound with: 胡文穆雜著 / 胡廣撰. 讕言長語 / 曹安撰. 蟫精雋 / 徐伯齡. 震澤長語 / 王鏊撰. 井觀瑣言 / 鄭瑗撰. 南園漫錄 / 張之淳撰. 雨航雜錄 / 馮時可撰. 採芹錄 / 徐三重撰. 畫禪室隨筆 / 董其昌撰. 六研齋筆記, 二筆, 三筆 / 李日華撰. 物理小識 / 方以智撰.
Hu Wenmu zazhu / Hu Guang zhuan. Lanyan changyu / Cao An zhuan. Yinjingjun / Xu Boling zhuan. Zhenze changyu / Wang Ao zhuan. Jingguan suoyan / Zheng Yuan zhuan. Nanyuan manlu / Zhang Zhichun zhuan. Yuhang zalu / Feng Shike zhuan. Cai Qin lu / Xu Sanchong zhuan. Huachanshi suibi / Dong Qichang zhuan. Liuyanzhai biji, erbi, sanbi / Li Rihua zhuan. Wuli xiaoshi / Fang Yizhi zhuan.

Reprint. Originally published: Qinding Siku quanshu 欽定四庫全書(子部, group 867)
Each page represents two double leaves of the original.
Bound with 10 other titles.

Kai Cheng Ji Yao: An Unpublished Work by Xu Guangqi ( Paul Xu)
GONG Ying-yan (College of Humanities，Ningbo University，Ningbo 315211，China)
Abstract: The author of this paper has discovered a copy titled as Kai Cheng Ji Yao kept in Zhejiang Library. Although the copy was transcribed by Han Yingbi, a famous bibliophile in modern Shanghai, it showed that this is in fact an unpublished work by Xu Guangqi (Paul Xu). The content of Kai Cheng Ji Yao can be divided into two parts. The first part is about some of the traditional folk crafts in Chinese, and the second part is about some new knowledge of science and technology from Europe of which some was surely introduced by Matteo Ｒicci,while others were introduced by other European missionaries. This recently discovered work provides a new document not only for further exploring Xu Guangqi’s achievements in science and technology, but also for the in-depth research of the traditional Chinese science and technology, especially the European knowledge introduced by the missionaries in the late Ming Dynasty. At the same time, this copy is also contributive to the study of Han Yingbi and his private library.
Key words: Kai Cheng Ji Yao; Xu Guangqi; Matteo Ｒicci; Han Yingbi; Yao Yuanchu.

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Zhu Zaiyu : Mingdai de kexue he yishu juxing 朱載堉 : 明代的學和藝術巨星 / Dai Nianzu zhu 戴念祖著.
Colophon title also in pinyin: Zhu Zaiyu, Mingdai de kexue he yishu juxing.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
References: Dictionary of Ming biography, p.367-371.