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 …

The figure of Dai Zhen (1724–1777) looms large in modern Chinese intellectual history. Dai
was a mathematical astronomer and influential polymath who, along with like-minded …

From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been
preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are …

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 …

Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural
horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign …

Gathered here are research papers, speeches, and lecture notes, a multifaceted survey of
Chinese history embracing a wide range of subjects, from historical antecedents, relevant …

The thirteen essays in this volume, all by experts in the field of Chinese studies, reflect the
diversity of approaches scholars follow in the study of China's past. Together they reveal the …

Arguably, by 1600 Europe was ahead of China in producing basic machines such as clocks,
screws, levers, and pulleys that would be applied increasingly to the mechanization of …

In Companions in Geography Mario Cams revisits the early 18th century mapping of Qing
China, without doubt one of the largest cartographic endeavours of the early modern world …

This stimulating collection traces the intellectual trajectory of the field of modern Chinese
history over the past two decades. The possibility of conducting research in the People's …