Fa-ti Fan is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
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.
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...
評分这是具体链接: 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...
評分这本书被《南方都市报》10月31日的“新书快睇”专门推介了,希望能更多地激起我们对博物学的关注。 爱博物学,实际上也是低碳生活的一种体现~~~ 爱博物学,实际上也是低碳生活的一种体现~~~ 爱博物学,实际上也是低碳生活的一种体现~~~ 爱博物学,实际上也是低碳生活的一...
評分这本书被《南方都市报》10月31日的“新书快睇”专门推介了,希望能更多地激起我们对博物学的关注。 爱博物学,实际上也是低碳生活的一种体现~~~ 爱博物学,实际上也是低碳生活的一种体现~~~ 爱博物学,实际上也是低碳生活的一种体现~~~ 爱博物学,实际上也是低碳生活的一...
評分Reviewed work(s): Fa‐ti Fan. British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 238. $49.95. Robert Bickers University of Bristol The normalization of the history of China's encou...
題目、論點、文字都不錯,但缺少中國這一邊的史料是硬傷,導緻很多可以深挖的“文化遭遇”隻能一筆帶過。
评分題目、論點、文字都不錯,但缺少中國這一邊的史料是硬傷,導緻很多可以深挖的“文化遭遇”隻能一筆帶過。
评分題目、論點、文字都不錯,但缺少中國這一邊的史料是硬傷,導緻很多可以深挖的“文化遭遇”隻能一筆帶過。
评分一本難得的好書
评分關於native agency和最後一章fieldwork 的討論很漂亮。理論的使用似乎有點過瞭?另外,學力和閱讀能力所限,我還是不太清楚,對近代中國“的”科學發展而言,對聯繫和比較英帝國科學在其他殖民地的發展經驗而言,這段英國博物學者在華的遭遇故事,是不是能提供更多的啟示?
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