On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900Harvard University Press, 2005 M04 30 - 605 pages In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). |
Contents
Prologue | 3 |
Finding the Correct Conceptual Grid | 4 |
What Should Be the Literati Theory of Knowledge? | 5 |
Late Ming Classicism in the Context of Commercial Expansion | 9 |
Printing Technology and Publishing | 16 |
Naturalization of Anomalies in Ming China and Early Modern Europe | 20 |
Ming Classification on the Eve of Jesuit Contact | 24 |
Collecting the Collectors | 34 |
Protestants and Modern Science in Shanghai | 296 |
Introduction of Modern Mathematics and the Calculus | 303 |
The Shanghai Polytechnic and Reading Room | 308 |
The Construction of Modern Science in Late Qing China | 320 |
Early Science Primers | 321 |
Edkinss Primers for Science and the Problem of Darwin in China | 323 |
From the Scientific Book Depot to the China Prize Essay Contest | 332 |
Prize Essay Topics and Their Scientific Content | 340 |
Late Ming Statecraft Mathematics and Christianity | 53 |
Collecting Things in Texts | 57 |
Natural Studies and the Jesuits | 61 |
The Late Ming Calendar Crisis and Gregorian Reform | 63 |
Development of the Ming Astrocalendric Bureau | 65 |
Evolution of the Late Ming Calendar Crisis | 73 |
Gregorian Reform | 80 |
Jesuits and Late Ming Calendar Reform | 84 |
SinoJesuit Accommodations During the Seventeenth Century | 107 |
Literati Attacks on Calendar Reform in the Early Qing | 133 |
Ferdinand Verbiest and the Kangxi Emperor | 144 |
The Limits of Western Learning in the Early Eighteenth Century | 150 |
The Rites Controversy and Its Legacy | 160 |
French Jesuits in the Kangxi Court | 169 |
The Newtonian Century and the Limits of Scientific Transmission to China | 183 |
The Jesuit Role as Experts in High Qing Cartography and Technology | 190 |
Mensuration and Cartography in the Eighteenth Century | 191 |
Cartography SinoRussian Relations and Qing Imperial Interests | 200 |
The Jesuit Role in Qing Arts Instruments and Technology | 205 |
Evidential Research and Natural Studies | 223 |
Evidential Research and the Restoration of Ancient Learning | 225 |
Early Qing Critiques of Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming | 226 |
Medical Works and the Recovery of Antiquity | 227 |
Chen Yuanlong and the Mirror of Origins Encyclopedia | 236 |
Revival of Ancient Chinese Mathematics | 244 |
Seeking the Truth and High Qing Mathematics | 255 |
Mathematics in an Age of Evidential Research | 262 |
Nativism and Early NineteenthCentury Mathematics | 270 |
Modern Science and the Protestants | 281 |
Protestants Education and Modern Science to 1880 | 283 |
Medical Missionaries since 1872 and Medical Questions as Prize Essay Topics | 342 |
Natural Theology Darwin and Evolution | 345 |
Qing Reformism and Modern Science | 353 |
Government Arsenals Science and Technology in China after 1860 | 355 |
From Chinese Working for Missionaries to Missionaries Working for the Dynasty | 356 |
PostTaiping Reformers and Late Qing Science | 357 |
The Jiangnan Arsenal in Shanghai | 359 |
Technical Learning in the Jiangnan Arsenal and Fuzhou Navy Yard | 368 |
Naval Warfare and the Refraction of Qing Reforms into Failure | 376 |
Reconsidering the Foreign Affairs Movement | 386 |
Displacement of Traditional Chinese Science and Medicine in the Twentieth Century | 396 |
Science and the 1898 Reformers | 398 |
From Traditional to Modern Mathematics | 403 |
Modern Medicine in China | 405 |
Influence of Meiji Japan on Modern Science in China | 408 |
Tang Mathematical Classics | 423 |
Some Translations of Chemistry 18551873 | 425 |
Science Outline Series 18821898 | 426 |
Partial Chronological List of Arsenals etc in China 18611892 | 427 |
Table of Contents for the 1886 Primers for Science Studies Gezhi qimeng | 428 |
Twentythree Fields of the Sciences in the 1886 Primers for Science Studies | 429 |
Science Compendia Published in China from 1877 to 1903 | 430 |
Some Officially Selected Chinese Prize Essay Topics from the Shanghai Polytechnic | 433 |
Scientific Societies Formed between 1915 and 1927 | 434 |
Notes | 437 |
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Acknowledgments | 541 |
Credits | 543 |
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