图书标签: 历史 范发迪 博物学 科学史 清朝 中国 鸟兽鱼藻 艺术史
发表于2025-05-24
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Western scientific interest in China focused primarily on natural history. Prominent scholars in Europe as well as Westerners in China, including missionaries, merchants, consular officers, and visiting plant hunters, eagerly investigated the flora and fauna of China. Yet despite the importance and extent of this scientific activity, it has been entirely neglected by historians of science.
This book is the first comprehensive study on this topic. In a series of vivid chapters, Fa-ti Fan examines the research of British naturalists in China in relation to the history of natural history, of empire, and of Sino-Western relations. The author gives a panoramic view of how the British naturalists and the Chinese explored, studied, and represented China’s natural world in the social and cultural environment of Qing China.
Using the example of British naturalists in China, the author argues for reinterpreting the history of natural history, by including neglected historical actors, intellectual traditions, and cultural practices. His approach moves beyond viewing the history of science and empire within European history and considers the exchange of ideas, aesthetic tastes, material culture, and plants and animals in local and global contexts. This compelling book provides an innovative framework for understanding the formation of scientific practice and knowledge in cultural encounters.
Fa-ti Fan is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
it tells us exactly what its title says: no more, no less.
评分考察了英帝国博物学家的在华活动——关注博物学家们如何在中外机构、人员形成的网络中寻找物种、制作记录/标本、生产知识。博物学家大多是业余,其活动受商业利益(比如著名的茶叶大盗Fortune的故事)等动机驱使。好些章节基于殖民档案/书写的材料提供了细致的历史细节:广州的出口绘画业中华人画师和英国博物学家合作绘制物种图录(第二章)、19世纪在欧洲职业化的汉学同博物学的交涉(第四章)、田野工作中情感经验和文化接触(第五章)。
评分一本难得的好书
评分it tells us exactly what its title says: no more, no less.
评分题目、论点、文字都不错,但缺少中国这一边的史料是硬伤,导致很多可以深挖的“文化遭遇”只能一笔带过。
“文化遭遇”的内在可能 1936年,周作人写作《螟蛉与萤火》,开首便说到中国人拙于观察自然,往往喜欢把自然和人事联系在一起,或使之儒教化,将自然的现象加以伦理的解说,如慈乌反哺,羊羔跪乳一类;或使之道教化,如桑虫化为果蠃,腐草化为萤虫。“自然科学在中国向不发达...
评分得到听书: 英国博物学家最开始来到中国,是因为他们对神秘的东方花卉园艺充满了憧憬,他们渴望了解未知的东方,也希望在中国掌握新的园林技术。英国博物学家在中国的各种工作,离不开中国人的参与和帮助,我们甚至可以说,当时博物学取得的很多科学成就是双方合作取得的。英国...
评分清代在华的英国博物学家:科学、帝国与文化遭遇。 与以往的科学史著作有很大的不同,以往是采用纪年式或者分学科的方法来叙述,但本书是糅合到一起,而且添加了大量的时代背景,也提供了详细的文献参考,非常值得赞赏。 翻译的可以,图书设计和装帧也很精致
评分这是具体链接: http://www.dfdaily.com/html/1170/2011/12/17/716734.shtml “博物学”(natural history)在我们目前的知识框架中居于很边缘的地位,因为在当代科学中已经没有了它的正统位置。当然,在科学史研究领域中,博物学史仍然占有重要的地位。但是,读完范发迪教授...
评分“文化遭遇”的内在可能 1936年,周作人写作《螟蛉与萤火》,开首便说到中国人拙于观察自然,往往喜欢把自然和人事联系在一起,或使之儒教化,将自然的现象加以伦理的解说,如慈乌反哺,羊羔跪乳一类;或使之道教化,如桑虫化为果蠃,腐草化为萤虫。“自然科学在中国向不发达...
British Naturalists in Qing China pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025