Making the New World Their Own by Zhang, Qiong

Making the New World Their Own (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004284371)

Vendor: Qiong Zhang
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Format: Hardcover
$254.00
$254.00
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Making the New World Their Own by Zhang, Qiong

Making the New World Their Own

$254.00
Making the New World Their Own by Zhang, Qiong

Making the New World Their Own

$254.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Winner of the Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) "2015 Academic Excellence Award"

Author: Qiong Zhang
ISBN-10: 9004284370
ISBN-13: 9789004284371
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 06/05/2015
Pages: 456
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.10d
By Qiong Zhang
By Qiong Zhang
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Qiong Zhang, Ph. D. (1996, Harvard) teaches at Wake Forest University. Her research intersects with late imperial Chinese intellectual and cultural history and the history of the Jesuit mission in China. She has published many articles in these areas.

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