Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China Natalie Zemon Davis Copy
by Hsia, Florence C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0226355594
- ISBN 13
- 9780226355597
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 0226355594 . Kb41 ...xv, 273 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. 27 figures, 2 tables. Octavo. Pale jade green dust jacket with outline of map. DJ is clean and intact, book itself is clean and tight. Title page has gift inscription from the author "Florence" to her professor, Natalie Zemon Davis, as well as another note under the author's name (possibly in Davis's hand). As well, there is a printed copy of emails between the author and Davis tucked into the pages. Otherwise virtually as new. A very nice copy with special provenance. "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 develops a genealogy of Jesuit conceptions of scientific life within the Chinese mission field from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Analyzing the printed record of their endeavors in natural philosophy and mathematics, Hsia identifies three models of the missionary man of science by their genres of writing: mission history, travelogue, and academic collection. Drawing on the history of early modern Europes scientific, religious, and print culture, she uses the elaboration and reception of these scientific personae to construct the first collective biography of the Jesuit missionary-scientists many incarnations in late imperial China." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 273 pages; Signed by Author .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Bookseller
- Leaf and Stone Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12285
- Title
- Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China Natalie Zemon Davis Copy
- Author
- Hsia, Florence C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0226355594
- ISBN 13
- 9780226355597
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago & London
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- 0226355594, Jesuit_missionaries, Imperial_china
- Bookseller catalogs
- History: Asia;
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