Imagined Civilizations - China, the West, and Their First Encounter

Informationen zum Autor Roger Hart is Director of the Confucius Institute and an associate professor of history at Texas Southern University. He has received fellowships from ACLS, NEH, and Mellon. Previous appointments include Seoul National University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Chicago, Institute for Advanced Study, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Harvard. He is author of The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra , also published by Johns Hopkins. Klappentext While the Jesuits claimed Xu as a convert, he presented the Jesuits as men from afar who had traveled from the West to China to serve the emperor. Zusammenfassung While the Jesuits claimed Xu as a convert! he presented the Jesuits as men from afar who had traveled from the West to China to serve the emperor.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Hart, Roger Hart
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2013
• EAN: 9781421406060
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-0606-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, History of mathematics, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Jesuits;politics;Jesuit mission