Redrawing China's Intellectual Map: Images of Science
in Nineteenth-Century China

Reynolds, David C.

doi:10.1353/late.1991.0002

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“…42 For more on the development of the terms for science and for science in early twentieth-century China and its links to modernity and views of modernity, as well as objections to science, see e.g. Reynolds 1991;Wang 1995;Xu 1997;Wang 2002;Elman 2004;Fan 2007;Wang 2007 the intellectuals engaged in history advocated, for example, the pursuit of scientific history and the search for evidence of Chinese science in China's long history. 43 The rise of modern science and the scientific revolution were understood in the early twentieth century by many intellectuals to be derived from early-modern European changes in philosophy.…”

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“To Feel at Home in the Wonderful World of Modern Science”: New Chinese Historiography and Qing Intellectual History

Sela

2017

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Argument In recent decades a large body of scholarship on the first half of twentieth-century China has successfully shown the ways in which history and historiography had been constructed at the time, as well as the links between history, national identity, education, and politics that was forged during this period. In this paper, I examine Qing intellectual history, in particular that of the mid or "High Qing." I discuss the development of the historiography of this field in the early twentieth century by drawing on the larger developments in historiography; by demonstrating how these developments had shaped Qing intellectual history for later times; by focusing on the historical actors' sense of the importance of "science," being "scientific," and "modernization"; and, by unraveling the intimate connections to older historiographical narratives going back all the way to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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“To Feel at Home in the Wonderful World of Modern Science”: New Chinese Historiography and Qing Intellectual History

Sela

2017

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“…Other strategies employed in the late Qing to clear intellectual and social space for Western science included the assimilation of new knowledge within indigenous philosophical categories, and the affirmation of an eventually universal cultural convergence. 21 But where the latter two establish the new knowledge of science as unthreatening for, because complementary to, existing ru learning, the China-origins thesis deliberately situates science (among other things) as a competitor. The shared historical basis it poses between Chinese and Western learning establishes their continuity with each other, such that Western science can no longer be denigrated as a foreign curiosity of superficial instrumentality.…”

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Histories of Thought and Comparative Political Theory

Jenco

2014

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How is cultural otherness any different from the historical otherness already found in our existing canons of thought? This essay examines an influential Chinese conversation that raised a similar question in struggling with its own parochialism. Claiming that all "Western" knowledge originated in China, these Chinese reformers see the differences presented by foreign knowledge as identical to those already authorizing innovation within their existing activity of knowledge-production. Noting that current academic theoryproduction treats the otherness of past authors in a similar way, I argue that we must broach something like a China-origins claim if we are to see typically marginalized ("non-Western") thought as part of what disciplines our thought, rather than serves simply as its target of inclusion. Doing so, we blur self/foreign binaries and enable future innovation of thought on radically new terms.

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“…Reardon‐Anderson () notes that Hobson's work Natural Philosophy and Natural History (1855) was very influential on Xu Shou (1818–1884). Shou was a Chinese chemist from the lower Yangtse Valley and worked as a translator at the Jiangnan Arsenal and as a lecturer at the Shanghai Polytechnic Institute (Reynolds, ). Shou and another Chinese scientist, Hua Hengfeng, helped initiate the production of translations of Western textbooks at the Translation Bureau (Tsien, ).…”

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Benjamin Hobson (1816–1873): His Work as a medical missionary and influence on the practice of medicine and knowledge of anatomy in China and Japan

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Benjamin Hobson was a British missionary and physician who lived in China for twenty years. He founded multiple hospitals in Southern China and used his knowledge of Western medicine to educate Chinese doctors. He wrote several medical textbooks in Chinese of which the first was the A New Theory of the Body (1851). The illustrations from his book were renditions and originals from William Cheselden's Anatomical Tables (1730) and Osteographia (1733).The Japanese version of Hobson's work appeared in Japan during the bakumatsu period (1853-1867), when Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy and began opening itself to the West. During this time, many books from Europe were translated into Chinese to then find their way into Japan. The Chinese anatomy textbook by Hobson (Quanti Xinlun) was instrumental in introducing Western anatomic knowledge to the Chinese and thereby catalyzing a significant change in the practice of medicine in China. A Japanese translation (Zen Tai Shin Ron) of this text published in the 19th century is reviewed.

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Redrawing China's Intellectual Map: Images of Science in Nineteenth-Century China

Cited by 8 publications

References 41 publications

“To Feel at Home in the Wonderful World of Modern Science”: New Chinese Historiography and Qing Intellectual History

“To Feel at Home in the Wonderful World of Modern Science”: New Chinese Historiography and Qing Intellectual History

Histories of Thought and Comparative Political Theory

Benjamin Hobson (1816–1873): His Work as a medical missionary and influence on the practice of medicine and knowledge of anatomy in China and Japan

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