Imagined Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounter by Roger Hart

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

Roger Hart

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Accounts of the seventeenth-century Jesuit Mission to China have often celebrated it as the great encounter of two civilizations. The Jesuits portrayed themselves as wise men from the West who used mathematics and science in service of their missi...

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