4. The Limits of Western Learning in the Early Eighteenth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables xi
4. Chinese Dynasties xv
5. Abbreviations xix
6. Preface xxi
7. I. Introduction
8. Prologue 3
9. 1. Ming Classification on the Eve of Jesuit Contact 24
10. II. Natural Studies and the Jesuits
11. 2. The Late Ming Calendar Crisis and Gregorian Reform 63
12. 3. Sino-Jesuit Accommodations During the Seventeenth Century 107
13. 4. The Limits of Western Learning in the Early Eighteenth Century 150
14. 5. The Jesuit Role as Experts in High Qing Cartography and Technology 190
15. III. Evidential Research and Natural Studies
16. 6. Evidential Research and the Restoration of Ancient Learning 225
17. 7. Seeking the Truth and High Qing Mathematics 255
18. IV. Modern Science and the Protestants
19. 8. Protestants, Education, and Modern Science to 1880 283
20. 9. The Construction of Modern Science in Late Qing China 320
21. V. Qing Reformism and Modern Science
22. 10. Government Arsenals, Science, and Technology in China after 1860 355
23. 11. Displacement of Traditional Chinese Science and Medicine in the Twentieth Century 396
24. Appendixes 423
25. Notes 437
26. Bibliography of Chinese and Japanese Sources 527
27. Acknowledgments 541
28. Credits 543
29. Index 545