TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hart,Roger
TI  - Imagined Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounter
SN  - 9781421407128
AV  - DS721 .H37 2013 
U1  - 510.951 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - China-History
KW  - China-Civilization
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Science as the Measure of Civilizations -- 3 From Copula to Incommensurable Worlds -- 4 Mathematical Texts in Historical Context -- 5 Tracing Practices Purloined by the Three Pillars -- 6 Xu Guangqi, Grand Guardian -- 7 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A: Zhu Zaiyu's New Theory of Calculation -- Appendix B: Xu Guangqi's Right Triangles, Meanings -- Appendix C: Xu Guangqi's Writings -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
N2  - While the Jesuits claimed Xu as a convert, he presented the Jesuits as men from afar who had traveled from the West to China to serve the emperor
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3318706
ER  -