The encounters between East and West in East Asia in the early modern era 03-AP-EWEA

Week 1: First Chinese travelers to Europe.
Week 2: Scientific exchange between China and Europe.
Week 3: Exchanges of technologies between China and Europe.
Week 4: Antiquity texts translated in Chinese (including Cicero’s De amititia).
Week 5: The Italian Matteo Ricci and the transmission of Western science (his translation of Euclid in Chinese).
Week 6: European cartographers and remaking of Chinese geography.
Week 7: Accommodating Confucianism as a bridge to Christianity.
Week 8: Italian Giuseppe Castiglione as the imperial court painter.
Week 9: European missionary astronomers and the creation of the Astronomical Observatory in Beijing.
Week 10: Polish missionaries Michał Boym and Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki in China.
Week 11: European architecture in China.
Week 12: Chinese dictionaries for European languages.
Week 13: European fascination with Chinese porcelain.
Week 14: European Legacy in China and Chinese Legacy in Europe.
Week 15: Final Test.

Module learning aims

Module aim: This course explores the 1300–1800 period before China's decline, when the country was viewed by the Europeans as a leading world culture and power. Europe, by contrast, was in the early stages of emerging from provincial to international status. It explores how that earlier era, interestingly, contains more relevance for today than the more recent past. The lectures drive on a wealth of recent research on Sino-Western history.

Module type

elective

Course coordinators

Robert Maryks

Bibliography

https://brill.com/view/title/57163
https://brill.com/view/title/56150
https://brill.com/view/title/38497
https://brill.com/view/title/32440
https://brill.com/view/title/27237

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