Zhang Qiong, Making the New World Their Own (2015)

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Zhang Qiong, Making the New World Their Own: Chinese Encounters with Jesuit Science in the Age of Discovery，Leiden: Brill, April 2015.

ISBN13: 9789004284371

Another New World Encounter: Jesuit Accommodation and Chinese Cultural Renewal

Historiographical Context, Thematic Focus, and Approaches

Outlines of Chapters 2–7

The Jesuits in the Late Ming Discourse of Exotica

Matteo Ricci’s Chinese World Map as a Product of the Contact Zone

Discussions on the Sphericity of the Earth and Its Implications

Introduction of the Wider World outside China

The Fantastic Narrative Style of Ricci’s Legends

The Valorizing of Western Christendom

Conclusion

The European Context of the Notion of the Terraqueous Globe

Discourses on the Physical Earth in Premodern China: A Working Classification

Dadi and Sihai: Images of Land and Sea in Early China

The “Tribute of Yu” and the Formation of a Geopolitical Discourse on the Four Seas

The Square-Earth-and-Four-Seas Model of the World in Premodern Chinese Cosmological Discourses

Contours of Land and Sea in Chinese Empirical Maritime Literature

Zhou Qufei (jinshi 1163)

Hong Mai (1123–1202)

Cheng Dachang (1123–1195)

Conclusion

Jesuit Introduction of the Notion of the Terraqueous Globe

General Reception of the Notion of the Globe in Seventeenth-Century China

Patterns of Chinese Appropriation of the Terraqueous Globe: Examples from the Fang School

Xiong Mingyu (1579–1649)

Fang Yizhi (1611–1671) and Jie Xuan (1613–1695)

China, the “Far West,” and the Goals of the Fang School

Conclusion

Defining the Four Seas in Jesuit Hydrographic Nomenclature

Mapping the Four Seas in Late Ming and Early Qing Yugong Scholarship

Mao Ruizheng’s (jinshi 1601) Compendium of Commentaries on the “Tribute of Yu”

Xia Yunyi’s (1596?–1645) Combined Commentary on the “Tribute of Yu”

The New Classicists Zhu Heling (1606–1683) and Gu Yanwu (1613–1682)

Hu Wei’s (1633–1714) Boring into the “Tribute of Yu”

The Merger of Yugong Studies and Renaissance World Geography

“Map of the Four Seas” by Xu Fa (fl. 1668–1681)

“Map of the ‘Tribute of Yu’” Attributed to Jie Xuan (1613–1695)

“General Map of the Four Seas” by Chen Lunjiong (ca. 1683–ca. 1747)

Conclusion

The Story of the Folangji: A Myth-History in the Chinese Discovery of the Wider Early Modern World

The Ox Hide Story and Tales of Cannibalism

The History behind the Myths

Portuguese Settlement in Macao and the Late Ming Ethnographic Discourse on the “Barbarians of Macao”

The “Folangji Effect”: Jesuit Presentations of Europe and the World as Counter-Myth-Histories

Ricci’s Segregation of Folangi from Europe on His Chinese World Map

Giulio Aleni (1582–1649), Ferdinand Verbiest (1623–1688), and the Anti-Christian Movements in China

Aleni’s Whitewashing in His 1623 Records of Lands beyond the Jurisdiction of the Imperial Geographer

Integrating the New with the Old

Guo Zizhang’s (1543–1618) Perception of Ricci as a “Loyal Follower of Zou Yan”

Xu Fa’s (fl. 1668–1681) Correlation of the Jesuit Five Continents with Their Buddhist Counterparts

Xu Yingqiu’s (?–1621) New Reading of the “Four Barbarians”

The Syntheses of Lu Ciyun (fl. 1662) and Xiong Renlin (1604–1666)

Conclusion