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Technical knowledge, cultural practices and social boundaries: Wan-nan scholars and the recasting of Jesuit astronomy, 1600-1800.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Technical knowledge, cultural practices and social boundaries: Wan-nan scholars and the recasting of Jesuit astronomy, 1600-1800./
Author:	Chu, Ping-yi.
Description:	400 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-09, Section: A, page: 2953.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International55-09A.
Subject:	History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9503621

Technical knowledge, cultural practices and social boundaries: Wan-nan scholars and the recasting of Jesuit astronomy, 1600-1800.
Chu, Ping-yi.

Technical knowledge, cultural practices and social boundaries: Wan-nan scholars and the recasting of Jesuit astronomy, 1600-1800. - 400 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-09, Section: A, page: 2953.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.

Taking four Wan-nan Confucian scholars--Yang Kuang-hsien, Mei Wen-ting, Chiang Yung and Tai Chen--as examples, this dissertation studies how an immigrant Jesuit scientific community built and defended itself in a specialized institutional niche located at the Ch'ing court and how a defeated Chinese scientific tradition successfully survived by occupying a broader cultural space, with the Manchu emperor in between. Special attention is paid to how these four Confucian scholars constructed social boundaries between the Chinese and the Westerners in their astronomical discourses and how they domesticated Western astronomy in order to fit the Chinese cultural conditions situated in the power structure built by the Manchus.Subjects--Topical Terms:

626624
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.

Technical knowledge, cultural practices and social boundaries: Wan-nan scholars and the recasting of Jesuit astronomy, 1600-1800.
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500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-09, Section: A, page: 2953.
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520 $a Taking four Wan-nan Confucian scholars--Yang Kuang-hsien, Mei Wen-ting, Chiang Yung and Tai Chen--as examples, this dissertation studies how an immigrant Jesuit scientific community built and defended itself in a specialized institutional niche located at the Ch'ing court and how a defeated Chinese scientific tradition successfully survived by occupying a broader cultural space, with the Manchu emperor in between. Special attention is paid to how these four Confucian scholars constructed social boundaries between the Chinese and the Westerners in their astronomical discourses and how they domesticated Western astronomy in order to fit the Chinese cultural conditions situated in the power structure built by the Manchus.
520 $a This inquiry begins with a brief introduction of Wan-nan and the Wan-nan school. I then discuss how the Jesuits legitimated their knowledge during the Ming-Ch'ing transition, and how Jesuit astronomy was situated within the power nexus between the Confucian literati and the emperors. The next chapter focuses on Yang Kuang-hsien and his challenges to the Jesuits. I examine his strategies and the power structure in which Yang carried out his challenge to the Jesuits. The fourth and fifth chapters investigate how Mei Wen-ting restructured the relationship between Confucianism and astronomy. The former chapter focuses on Mei's social networking and his ambivalence towards the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, on the one hand, and towards Chinese and Western learning on the other. The latter chapter deals with how Mei Wen-ting recast Chinese astronomical tradition and Confucianism. In the sixth chapter, I will compare the fame of Chiang Yung and Tai Chen in order to demonstrate how astronomy was practiced in evidential studies after Mei Wen-ting, and how evidential studies itself conveyed an ideological construction of the other.
520 $a Through integrating Western astronomy with indigenous tradition while exorcising the otherness contained within the cultural package of Western astronomy combined with Christianity, these Wan-nan scholars had successfully rejuvenated a "Chinese" astronomical tradition compatible with their own culture.
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