Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits

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Vydáno v:	The Journal of Economic History vol. 81, no. 4 (Dec 2021), p. 1052
Hlavní autor:	Ma, Chicheng
Vydáno:	Cambridge University Press
Témata:	Society of Jesus > Jesuits China Macao Europe Scientists Science Knowledge Intelligentsia Human capital 16th century Chinese history Popes 15th century Civilization Research Missionaries Religious missions Economic history Jesuits Academic discourse Information dissemination Chinese languages Districts
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Abstrakt:	From 1580, the Jesuits introduced European sciences to China―an autarkic civilization whose intelligentsia was dominated by Confucian literati. Drawing upon prefectural distributions of the Jesuits and Chinese scientific works, this paper demonstrates that the Jesuits stimulated Confucian literati to study science. On average, the literati’s scientific works increased four times in prefectures with Jesuit scientists after 1580. But this effect shrank after the Jesuits were expelled by the emperor of China in 1723. Since China’s scholar-official system remained unchanged, the literati’s scientific research aimed to serve the needs of statecraft rather than translating into economic progress.
ISSN:	0022-0507 1471-6372
DOI:	10.1017/S0022050721000413
Zdroj:	ABI/INFORM Global