Cultural History of Modern Science in China

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. They welcomed the appearance in 2005 of Benjamin Elman's masterwork, On Their Own Terms. Now Elman has retold the story of the Jesuit impact on late imperial China, circa 1600-1800, and the Protestant era in early modern China from the 1840s to 1900 in a concise and accessible form ideal for the classroom. This coherent account of the emergence of modern science in China places that emergence in historical context for both general students of modern science and specialists of China.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-04-01
Mått:140 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:412 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674030428
Utmärkelser:Nominated for Pfizer Award 2007

Utforska kategorier

Naturvetenskapens historia inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Benjamin A. Elman is Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University.

Recensioner i media

Elman shows that progress in Chinese science continued after 1600, as it absorbed new ideas from the West, and, for him, China's nineteenth-century failure to respond adequately to Western incursions has been exaggerated...[A Cultural History of Modern Science in China] offer[s] a new and important perspective on Sino-European interaction.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations Conventions Chinese Dynasties Introduction 1. The Jesuit Legacy 2. Recovering the Chinese Classics 3. The Rise of Imperial Chinese Manufacturing and Trade 4. Science and the Protestant Mission 5. From Textbooks to Darwin: Modern Science Arrives 6. Government Arsenals Spur New Technologies 7. The Displacement of Traditional Chinese Science and Medicine Appendixes: 1. Tang Mathematical Classics 2. "Science Outline Series," 1882-1898 3. Table of Contents for the 1886 Primers for Science Studies 4. Twenty-three Fields of the Sciences in the 1886 Primers for Science Studies 5. Some Officially Selected Chinese Prize Essay Topics from the Shanghai Polytechnic 6. Some Translations of Chemistry, 1855-1873 7. Partial Chronological List of Arsenals, etc., in China, 1861-1892 Notes Acknowledgments Index