Roger Hart

Imagined Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chinese literati-official Xu Guangqi (1562-1633), who collaborated with the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) to translate Euclid's Elements into Chinese, reportedly recognized the superiority of Western mathematics and science and converted to Christianity.

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While the Jesuits claimed Xu as a convert, he presented the Jesuits as men from afar who had traveled from the West to China to serve the emperor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Altersempfehlung: ab 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 696g
• ISBN-13: 9781421406060
• ISBN-10: 1421406063
• Artikelnr.: 36026891

Autorenporträt

Roger Hart is Director of the Confucius Institute and an associate professor of history at Texas Southern University. He has received fellowships from ACLS, NEH, and Mellon. Previous appointments include Seoul National University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Chicago, Institute for Advanced Study, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Harvard. He is author of The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra, also published by Johns Hopkins.