Mapping Meanings: The Field of New Learning in Late Qing China ; [International Conference "Translating Western Knowledge Into Late Imperial China", 1999, Göttingen University]"Mapping Meanings" is essentially a broad-ranged introduction to China's intellectual entry into the family of nations. Written by a fine selection of experts, it guides the reader into the terrain of China's (late Qing) encounter with Western knowledge and modern sciences, and at the same time connects convincingly to the broader question of the mobility of knowledge. The late Qing literati's pursue of New Learning was a transnational practice inseparable from the local context. "Mapping Meanings" therefore attempts to highlight what the encountered global knowledge could have meant to specific social actors in the specific historical situation. Subjects included are the transformation of the examination system, the establishment of academic disciplines, and new social actors and questions of new terminologies. Both an introduction and a reference work on the subject. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE | 7 |
From Premodern Chinese Natural Studies to Modern Science in China | 25 |
Social Actors in the Field of New Learning in Nineteenth | 75 |
The Formation and Development of the Term | 119 |
Notes on the History of the Chinese Term for Labor | 129 |
A Brief Study on the Translation of Western | 143 |
To Translate is To Exchange | 173 |
The Reception of Archaeology and Prehistory | 423 |
Formation and Dissemination of Japanese | 451 |
Translation and the Discovery | 471 |
The Formation of a Chinese Lexicon | 507 |
Creating Scientific | 537 |
The Evolution of Modern Chinese Musical Theory | 555 |
Nineteenth Century Ruist Metaphysical Terminology | 615 |
On Translating Western Psychiatry into the Chinese | 639 |
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| Title | Mapping Meanings: The Field of New Learning in Late Qing China ; [International Conference "Translating Western Knowledge Into Late Imperial China", 1999, Göttingen University] Volume 64 of Sinica Leidensia / Sinica Leidensia |
| Editors | Michael Lackner, Ph.D., Natascha Vittinghoff |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | BRILL, 2004 |
| ISBN | 9004139192, 9789004139190 |
| Length | 741 pages |
| Subjects | › › Architecture / Interior Design / General Education / General History / Asia / China Social Science / General |
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