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Author Hu, Minghui

Title China's transition to modernity : the new classical vision of Dai Zhen / Minghui Hu
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 285 pages)
Contents The man and his times -- How Jesuit science conquered the Kangxi court -- Searching for truth in the origins of civilizations -- How to build a coalition around science -- An outsider enters the mainstream -- How to dethrone Jesuit science -- Bringing it home to the palace of light -- Legibility of visionary scholars
Summary "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 scholars, sought to balance understandings of science, technology, and history within the framework of classical Chinese writings. Exploring ideas in fields as broad-ranging as astronomy, geography, governance, phonology, and etymology, Dai grappled with Western ideas and philosophies, including Jesuit conceptions of cosmology, which were so important to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) court's need for calendrical precision. Minghui Hu tells the story of China's transition to modernity from the perspective of 18th-century Chinese scholars who were dedicated to examining the present and past with the tools of evidential analysis. Using Dai as the centering point, Hu shows how the tongru ('broadly learned scholars') of this era navigated Confucian, Jesuit, and other worldviews during a dynamic period, connecting ancient theories to new knowledge in the process."--Publisher's Web site
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-273) and index
Notes Multiple languages
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Subject Dai, Zhen, 1724-1777.
SUBJECT Dai, Zhen, 1724-1777
Dai, Zhen, 1724-1777 fast
Dai, Zhen 1724-1777 gnd
Jesuiten gnd
Subject Philosophy, Chinese -- 1644-1912.
PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Intellectual life
Philosophy, Chinese
Intellektueller
Wissenschaft
Modernisierung
SUBJECT China -- Intellectual life -- 1644-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024143
China -- History -- Qianlong, 1736-1795. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024083
Subject China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021692850
ISBN 9780295806068
0295806060