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.