Fa-ti Fan is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Western scientific interest in China focused primarily on natural history. Prominent scholars in Europe as well as Westerners in China, including missionaries, merchants, consular officers, and visiting plant hunters, eagerly investigated the flora and fauna of China. Yet despite the importance and extent of this scientific activity, it has been entirely neglected by historians of science.
This book is the first comprehensive study on this topic. In a series of vivid chapters, Fa-ti Fan examines the research of British naturalists in China in relation to the history of natural history, of empire, and of Sino-Western relations. The author gives a panoramic view of how the British naturalists and the Chinese explored, studied, and represented China’s natural world in the social and cultural environment of Qing China.
Using the example of British naturalists in China, the author argues for reinterpreting the history of natural history, by including neglected historical actors, intellectual traditions, and cultural practices. His approach moves beyond viewing the history of science and empire within European history and considers the exchange of ideas, aesthetic tastes, material culture, and plants and animals in local and global contexts. This compelling book provides an innovative framework for understanding the formation of scientific practice and knowledge in cultural encounters.
發表於2024-12-27
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Reviewed work(s): Fa‐ti Fan. British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 238. $49.95. Robert Bickers University of Bristol The normalization of the history of China's encou...
評分由美國科學史學者範發迪撰著、袁劍翻譯的《清代在華的英國博物學傢:科學、帝國與文化遭遇》一書,作為國傢清史編纂委員會編譯叢刊,已於2011年7月由中國人民大學齣版社齣版。該書由中文版序、導言、正文二部分共五章、結語、附錄、索引等組成,29.1萬字。 以博物學的視角剖析...
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評分由美國科學史學者範發迪撰著、袁劍翻譯的《清代在華的英國博物學傢:科學、帝國與文化遭遇》一書,作為國傢清史編纂委員會編譯叢刊,已於2011年7月由中國人民大學齣版社齣版。該書由中文版序、導言、正文二部分共五章、結語、附錄、索引等組成,29.1萬字。 以博物學的視角剖析...
圖書標籤: 曆史 範發迪 博物學 科學史 清朝 中國 鳥獸魚藻 藝術史
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評分一本難得的好書
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評分一本難得的好書
評分題目、論點、文字都不錯,但缺少中國這一邊的史料是硬傷,導緻很多可以深挖的“文化遭遇”隻能一筆帶過。
British Naturalists in Qing China 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載