World Imagination: the Spread of Western Learning to the East and Chinese Geographic Documents of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
by Zou Zhenhuan
About This Novel
The spread of Western learning to the east from the 16th to the 19th centuries brought Chinese society into a unique period of cultural transformation. The Chinese and Western geographical documents formed during this period stirred up rich humanistic imagination about the world in Chinese society and intellectual circles. Through detailed research on Matteo Ricci's world map, Ai Julius's "Zi Fang Wai Ji" and other Ming and Qing Chinese Western geographical documents, this book shows the spread of Western geography and animal and plant knowledge in China since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as well as the efforts made by Chinese intellectuals to bridge the gap between China and the West. This book pays special attention to putting these issues into the coordinates of China and the world in the context of global history, and attempts to sort out the complex aspects of the fierce collision and integration of Chinese and Western cultures around the geographical documents of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the grand and magnificent historical picture of the spread of Western learning to the east.
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