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Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China Hardcover - 2009
by Florence C. Hsia
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- Title Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China
- Author Florence C. Hsia
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date 2009
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780226355597 / 0226355594
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Science - China - History, Jesuits - Missions - China - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009010016
- Dewey Decimal Code 266.252
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Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China Natalie Zemon Davis Copy
by Hsia, Florence C.
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Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 0226355594 . Kb41 ...xv, 273 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. 27 figures, 2 tables. Octavo. Pale jade green dust jacket with outline of map. DJ is clean and intact, book itself is clean and tight. Title page has gift inscription from the author "Florence" to her professor, Natalie Zemon Davis, as well as another note under the author's name (possibly in Davis's hand). As well, there is a printed copy of emails between the author and Davis tucked into the pages. Otherwise virtually as new. A very nice copy with special provenance. "Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard…
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