Sojourners in a strange land : Jesuits and their scientific missions in late imperial China / Florence C. Hsia.

  • Hsia, Florence C.
Date:
2009
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Physical description

xv, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Who was that masked man? -- Writing missions -- Telling missionary lives -- Making Jesuit science travel -- Reading Jesuit Voyages -- Jesuit academicians -- Observational fortunes -- Familiar letters and familiar faces.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    ABP.251.AA6-7
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780226355597
  • 0226355594