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.
2011年11月13日上海《东方早报》文章 王洪波 提到“科学”二字,一般人首先想到的必定是物理、化学之类,“博物学”一词很难跳进脑海里。这准确反映了博物学已经衰落的现实。近年来一直有人为博物学鸣不平,刘华杰就是其中有代表性的一位。最近,由他主编的《好的归...
评分http://www.sociologyol.org/yanjiubankuai/tuijianyuedu/tuijianyueduliebiao/2011-12-03/13600.html 文化遭遇与知识网络:了解中国博物学的新路径及其限度 ——范发迪《清代在华的英国博物学家》译后赘言 袁 剑 本文发表于《读书》2011年第11期 还记得之前关于熊猫是“...
评分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...
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...
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
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。
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了?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?
评分Excellent book!
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。
评分"范选取的是一个非常小的材料,但他以此触碰的是一个庞大的问题,即‘西方科学的根基是什么’,他的研究指出这个根基并不局限在欧洲,而是由无数边缘的材料支撑而起。"得老师指点明白了此书为何得以给学术界打鸡血。
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