Mapping meanings : the field of new learning in late Qing China /
"Mapping Meanings is essentially a broad-ranged introduction to China's intellectual entry into the family of nations. Written by a fine selection of experts, it guides the reader into the terrain of China's (late Qing) encounter with Western knowledge and modern sciences, and at the...
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004
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| Series: | Sinica Leidensia ;
v. 64. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "Mapping Meanings is essentially a broad-ranged introduction to China's intellectual entry into the family of nations. Written by a fine selection of experts, it guides the reader into the terrain of China's (late Qing) encounter with Western knowledge and modern sciences, and at the same time connects convincingly to the broader question of the mobility of knowledge. The late Qing literati's pursue of New Learning was a transnational practice inseparable from the local context. "Mapping Meanings therefore attempts to highlight what the encountered global knowledge could have meant to specific social actors in the specific historical situation. Subjects included are the transformation of the examination system, the establishment of academic disciplines, and new social actors and questions of new terminologies. Both an introduction and a reference work on the subject |
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| Item Description: | Collection of contributions to the international conference "Translating Western Knowledge into late Imperial China," held at the ... University of Gottingen University in Dec. 1999. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 741 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1429408170 9781429408172 9789004139190 9004139192 9047405641 9789047405641 1280915323 9781280915321 9786610915323 6610915326 |
| ISSN: | 0169-9563 ; |
| Language: | Chinese. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
