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On Their Own Terms
Benjamin A. Elman
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Description for On Their Own Terms
Hardcover. Num Pages: 606 pages, 11 halftones, 10 line illustrations, 9 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 41. Weight in Grams: 982.
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900).
By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
606
Condition
New
Number of Pages
606
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674016859
SKU
V9780674016859
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99-1
About Benjamin A. Elman
Benjamin A. Elman is Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University.
Reviews for On Their Own Terms
Elman's robust book is...replete with telling facts, compelling arguments, and persuasive conclusions. Over the past two decades, Elman has made major contributions to Chinese social-intellectual history by writing books about the evidential scholarship movement, Jiangnan regional academic lineages, and the civil service examination system in late imperial China. Building on the strengths and research of all his previous books, Elman ... Read more