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The emperor's new mathematics : western learning and imperial authority during the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722)
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ISBN: 9780199601400 0199601402 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

Euclid in China : the genesis of the first Chinese translation of Euclid's elements, books I-VI (Jihe yuanben, Beijing, 1607) and its reception up to 1723
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ISBN: 9004109447 9004482792 Year: 1998 Publisher: Leiden Brill


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Chinesia
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ISBN: 3484630167 3110914891 9783110914894 9783484630161 Year: 1998 Publisher: Tübingen Niemeyer

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Our perception of the Others is based on our conception of ourselves. In theory the Others should be different. If necessary, we alter their images to accommodate the apperception of ourselves. Thus Chinesia, an amalgamation of facts and fiction, was created. In order to avoid previous repetition of stereotypes and prejudices, the present study re-examines the parameters which created Chinesia and traces its development to the end of the 18th century. It discusses the reports of the European seafarers and trade embassies to China and analyzes the situation of the Jesuit missionaries and their European publications on China. These helped to develop a wondrous China during Baroque and early Enlightenment which, however, gradually became offensive to Christian pride. After Christian Wolff was dismissed from the University of Halle and banished from Prussia for eulogizing Confucianism, China was steadily downgraded, particularly by the historicists who were re-evaluating the position of Europe in World History. The white race was perceived as superior to all other races (David Hume and Kant); consequently, the complexion of the Chinese became increasingly yellower. It darkened from the Meerschaum hue (Lichtenberg) to the color of dried orange peels (Gobineau) toward the end of the 19th century. Finally, the Chinese were considered to be too stupid to have created the Chinese culture. The literary works of these periods reflect this development. The literary study begins with the analysis of European dramatization of the Manchu Conquest of China and its subsequent fictional Christianization. Then the Jesuit plays with Chinese themes are discussed, for the first time in literary history. Also analyzed is the reception of the Chinese Orphan motive in European literature which was the turning point in downgrading China, and subsequently Montesquieu's impact on Albrecht von Haller's novel "Usong" is examined. Thereafter, the study scrutinizes the contradictory positions of Herder and von Seckendorff (or Goethe, for that matter) in Weimar. The book concludes with a concise analysis of the 'eschatological sinism' of Hegel, Marx and Weber to indicate the development of the later centuries.


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Christianity in China
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ISBN: 9781405159548 9781405159555 1405159545 Year: 2011 Volume: *1 Publisher: Malden [etc.] Blackwell Publishing

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"A New History of Christianity in China, written by one of the world's the leading writers on Christianity in China, looks at Christianity's long history in China, its extraordinarily rapid rise in the last half of the twentieth century, and charts its future direction. Provides the first comprehensive history of Christianity in China, an important, understudied area in both Asian studies and religious history Traces the transformation of Christianity from an imported, Western religion to a thoroughly Chinese religion Contextualizes the growth of Christianity in China within national and local politics Offers a portrait of the complex religious scene in China today Contrasts China with other non-Western societies where Christianity is surging"-- "In this new book, one of the world's the leading writers in the field, looks at Christianity's long history in China, its extraordinarily rapid rise in the last half of the twentieth century, and charts its future direction. Bays expertly tracks the expansion of Christianity in China from the seventh century to the present day, charting how a religion first brought into China by a foreign mission has been adapted by the local population into part of their religious landscape. Beginning with the Nestorian mission in the seventh century, Bays presents a bold reinterpretation which reveals a process that was closely bound up with national and local politics. The account moves through the expansion of Christianity in the Dynastic era, its survival under fire in the mid-1900s, and the growth of the Chinese Church from the end of the Cultural Revolution to the early twenty-first century. The book concludes with an examination of the way in which China is both similar to and different from other non-Western societies-for example Africa, Korea, Indonesia, and the Pacific Islands-where Christianity is surging. Throughout, A New History of Christianity in China offers a broad scope and incorporates the major scholarship of the last 30 years, weaving a balanced narrative of Christianity's long history in China, tracing its transformation from an imported, Western religion to a thoroughly Chinese religion today"--

Eastern magnificence and European ingenuity : clocks of late imperial China.
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ISBN: 0472112082 Year: 2001 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan press


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Xiu ci, fu hao, zong jiao ge yan : Yesu hui shi Gao Yizhi "Pi xue" yan jiu
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ISBN: 9789866131325 9866131327 Year: 2015 Publisher: Xinbei shi : Taiwan jidu jiao wen yi chu ban she,

Sinographies : writing China.
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ISBN: 0816647240 0816647259 9780816647248 9780816647255 0816653798 Year: 2008 Publisher: Minneapolis University of Minnesota press


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Sojourners in a strange land : Jesuits and their scientific missions in late imperial China
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ISBN: 9780226355597 0226355594 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press

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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


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Kouduo richao: Li Jiubiao's diary of oral admonitions : a late Ming Christian journal.
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ISSN: 0179261X ISBN: 9783805005432 3805005431 Year: 2007 Volume: 56/1-2 Publisher: Sankt Augustin Institut monumenta serica


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Lettres édifiantes et curieuses de Chine par des missionnaires jésuites : 1702 - 1776
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ISBN: 2080703153 9782080703156 Year: 1979 Volume: 315 Publisher: Paris Garnier-Flammarion

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