Sojourners in a strange land
Subtitle: Jesuits and their scientific missions in late imperial China
By: Florence C. Hsia.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780226355597
Subjects: Jesuits -- Missions -- China -- History; Science -- China -- History
Description: Jesuit missionaries astonished the Chinese with maps, clocks astrolabes and armillaries. Florence Hsia examines ways in which the Jesuits used Western science to help establish a credible presence in China in the 16th-18th centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Who was that masked man?; title: Writing missions; title: Telling missionary lives; title: Making Jesuit science travel; title: Reading Jesuit voyages; title: Jesuit academicians; title: Observational fortunes; title: Familiar letters and familiar faces.