Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China, 1500-1800

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University of Michigan Press, 13 июн. 2012 г. - Всего страниц: 426

This book is a project in comparative history, but along two distinct axes, one historical and the other historiographical. Its purpose is to constructively juxtapose the early modern European and Chinese approaches to historical study that have been called "antiquarian." As an exercise in historical recovery, the essays in this volume amass new information about the range of antiquarian-type scholarship on the past, on nature, and on peoples undertaken at either end of the Eurasian landmass between 1500 and 1800. As a historiographical project, the book challenges the received---and often very much under conceptualized---use of the term "antiquarian" in both European and Chinese contexts. Readers will not only learn more about the range of European and Chinese scholarship on the past---and especially the material past---but they will also be able to integrate some of the historiographical observations and corrections into new ways of conceiving of the history of historical scholarship in Europe since the Renaissance, and to reflect on the impact of these European terms on Chinese approaches to the Chinese past. This comparison is a two-way street, with the European tradition clarified by knowledge of Chinese practices, and Chinese approaches better understood when placed alongside the European ones.

 

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Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe
Prolegomenon to a History
TWO The Many Dimensions of the Antiquarys Practice
THREE Far and Away? Japan China and Egypt and the Ruins
A View from Europe
FIVE The Credulity Problem
People Making Texts Making
SEVEN Styles of Medical Antiquarianism
Archaism and Early Scientific
Multiple
Obstacles
TWELVE Thinking About NonChinese in Ming China
India
FOURTEEN Whose Antiquarianism? Europe versus China in
FIFTEEN From Antiquarian Imagination to the Reconstruction
List of Contributors

EIGHT Therapy and Antiquity in Late Imperial China

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Peter N. Miller is Dean and Professor at the Bard Graduate Center. He is the Series Editor for Cultural Histories of the Material World.

François Louis is Associate Professor at the Bard Graduate Center.

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