Sojourners in a strange land : Jesuits and their scientific missions in late imperial China /

Hsia, Florence C.

Sojourners in a strange land : Jesuits and their scientific missions in late imperial China / Florence C. Hsia. - Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009. - xv, 273 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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History -- Jesuits -- Missions -- Science -- Qing