Statecraft and Intellectual Renewal in Late Ming China

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Statecraft and Intellectual Renewal in Late Ming China is written by Catherine Jami and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004482970 (ISBN 10) and 9789004482975 (ISBN 13).

This is the first comprehensive work on one of the key figures in early Chinese-Western relations. Xu Guangqi was one of the first promoters of Western science in China, worked together with the Jesuit Matteo Ricci on translations of Western science, was one of the first Chinese converts, a high-ranking statesman, organizer of a major calendar reform, introduced Western weapons into the Chinese army, etc. etc. His astonishingly multifarious activities are now for the first time pieced together within their (Chinese and Western) social, intellectual and cultural context. The result is a composite profile of this complex figure that is solidly anchored in Chinese (and Western) primary sources A major achievement.