Frontmatter
Contents
List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables
Chinese Dynasties
Abbreviations
Preface
I. Introduction
Prologue
1. Ming Classification on the Eve of Jesuit Contact
II. Natural Studies and the Jesuits
2. The Late Ming Calendar Crisis and Gregorian Reform
3. Sino-Jesuit Accommodations During the Seventeenth Century
4. The Limits of Western Learning in the Early Eighteenth Century
5. The Jesuit Role as Experts in High Qing Cartography and Technology
III. Evidential Research and Natural Studies
6. Evidential Research and the Restoration of Ancient Learning
7. Seeking the Truth and High Qing Mathematics
IV. Modern Science and the Protestants
8. Protestants, Education, and Modern Science to 1880
9. The Construction of Modern Science in Late Qing China
V. Qing Reformism and Modern Science
10. Government Arsenals, Science, and Technology in China after 1860
11. Displacement of Traditional Chinese Science and Medicine in the Twentieth Century
Appendixes
Notes
Bibliography of Chinese and Japanese Sources
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index