Mapping meanings. The field of new learning in late Qing China.. This item is unavailable.Mapping meanings. The field of new learning in late Qing China.

Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2004. XVIII,741 pp. Orig. hardcover (boards). 8vo. (Sinica Leidensia, Vol. 64).Selection of papers presented at the international conference 'Translating Western knowledge into late Imperial China' held at Go ttingen University in December 1999. - Mapping meanings is essentially a broad-ranged introduction to China's intellectual entry into the family of nations. Written by a fine selection of experts, it guides the reader into the terrain of China's (late Qing) encounter with Western knowledge and modern sciences, and at the same time connects convincingly to the broader question of the mobility of knowledge. - New price at the publisher: 329,--.