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A Cultural History of Modern Science in China

By Benjamin A. Elman

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0674023064, 9780674023062, 0674030427, 9780674030428
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1104269 bytes)
Series
New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine 15
Pages
336\325
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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. (20070112)

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