Antiquarianism and intellectual life in Europe and China, 1500-1800 /
[Book]
Peter N. Miller and François Louis, editors
x, 426 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
The Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China / Peter N. Miller and François Louis -- Part I. Antiquarianism and Study of the Past -- Writing Antiquarianism : Prolegomenon to a History / Peter N. Miller -- The Many Dimensions of the Antiquary's Practice / Alain Schnapp -- Far and Away? : Japan, China, and Egypt, and the Ruins of Ancient Rome in Justus Lipsius's Intellectual Journey / Jan Papy -- Comparing Antiquarianisms : A View from Europe / Peter N. Miller -- Part II. Authenticity and Antiquities -- The Credulity Problem / Christopher S. Wood -- Artifacts of Authentication : People Making Texts Making Things in Ming-Qing China / Bruce Rusk -- Part III. The Discovery of the World -- Styles of Medical Antiquarianism / Nancy G. Siraisi -- Therapy and Antiquity in Late Imperial China / Nathan Sivin -- Wang Shizhen and Li Shizhen : Archaism and Early Scientific Thought in Sixteenth-Century China / Kenneth J. Hammond -- The Botany of Cheng Yaotian (1725-1814) : Multiple Perspectives on Plants / Georges Métailié -- Part IV. Antiquarianism and Ethnography -- The Study of Islam in Early Modern Europe : Obstacles and Missed Opportunities / Noel Malcolm -- Thinking About "Non-Chinese" in Ming China / Leo K. Shin -- Part V. Antiquarianism and a "History of Religion" -- From Antiquarianism to Philosophical History : India, China, and the World History of Religion in European Thought (1600-1770) / Joan-Pau Rubiés -- Whose Antiquarianism? : Europe Versus China in the 1701 Conflict Between Bishop Maigrot and Qiu Sheng / D.E. Mungello -- From Antiquarian Imagination to the Reconstruction of Institutions : Antonius van Dale / Martin Mulsow