Sojourners in a Strange Land : Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China
Florence C. Hsia
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Chicago, Ill. ; London : : University of Chicago Press, , c2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (291 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; List of Illustrations; Conventions; Acknowledgments; 1. Who Was That Masked Man?; 2. Writing Missions; 3. Telling Missionary Lives; 4. Making Jesuit Science Travel; 5. Reading Jesuit Voyages; 6. Jesuit Academicians; 7. Observational Fortunes; 8. Familiar Letters and Familiar Faces; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - 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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| Emner | Jesuits - Missions - History.
Jesuitterordenen : (NO-TrBIB)90238846 Science - History - China Jesuits -- Missions -- China -- History. Vis mer... |
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| ISBN | 0226355594. - 9780226355597
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