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Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 Illustrations and Maps 11 Introduction 12 Part I: Historiography and Context 28 1. Xu Guangqi in the West: Early Jesuit Sources and the Construction of an Identity 30 2. Xu Guangqi in his Context: The World of the Shanghai Gentry 83 3. The Image of Xu Guangqi as Author of Christian Texts 110 Part II: Statesman, Confucian, and Christian 164 4. Xu Guangqi and Buddhism 166 5. Xu Guangqi’s Conversion as a Multifaceted Process 181 6. A Note on the Context of Xu Guangqi’s Conversion 197 7. Opposition to Western Science and the Nanjing Persecution 202 8. Sun Yuanhua: A Christian Convert Who Put Xu Guangqi’s Military Reform Policy into Practice 236 Part III: Experimenting in the Fields of Tradition 272 9. From the Elements to Calendar Reform: Xu Guangqi’s Shaping of Scientific Knowledge 274 10. Xu Guangqi’s Attempts to Integrate Western and Chinese Mathematics 290 11. On the Star Catalogue and Atlas of Chongzhen Lishu 322 12. Who was the Author of the Nongzhen Quanshu? 333 13. Astronomy, Chinese and Western: The Influence of Xu Guangqi’s Views in the Early and Mid-Qing 371 14. The Influence of Euclid’s Elements on Xu Gua

Author

Catherine Jami;Engelfriet;Gregory Blue;

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