书：

作者：Zhang Qiong (Wake Forest University,North Carolina,USA)

书名：《创造自己的新世界：大发现时代中国与耶稣会士科学的相遇》（Making the New World Their Own: Chinese Encounters with Jesuit Science in the Age of Discovery）

Leiden: Brill, April 2015, c. 500 pp.

ISBN13: 9789004284371

http://www.brill.com/products/book/making-new-world-their-own-chinese-encounters-jesuit-science-age-discovery

In Making the New World Their Own, Qiong Zhang offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars in the late Ming and early Qing came to understand that the earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with Matteo Ricci, Giulio Aleni and other Jesuits. These encounters formed a fascinating chapter in the early modern global integration of space. It unfolded as a series of mutually constitutive and competing scholarly discourses that reverberated in fields from cosmology, cartography and world geography to classical studies. Zhang demonstrates how scholars such as Xiong Mingyu, Fang Yizhi, Jie Xuan, Gu Yanwu, and Hu Wei appropriated Jesuit ideas to rediscoverChina’s place in the world and reconstitute their classical tradition.

Qiong Zhang, Ph. D. (1996, Harvard) teaches atWakeForestUniversity. Her research intersects with late imperial Chinese intellectual and cultural history and the history of the Jesuit mission inChina. She has published many articles in these areas.

Readership

All interested in the history of science, Jesuit mission, Ming and Qing Chinese intellectual, cultural and maritime history, global early modernity, the dynamics of cross-cultural encounters, and translation studies.

Table of contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction: Globalization, Localization, and Cultural Resilience

2 Mapping a Contact Zone

3 Divergent Discourses on the Physical Earth in PremodernChina

4 The Introduction and Refashioning of the Terraqueous Globe

5 Translating theFourSeasacross Space and Time

6 Taking in aNew World

7 Conclusion: Jesuit Science and the Shape of Early Chinese Modernity

Bibliography

Index