Western Learning and Imperial Scholarship: The Kangxi Emperor’s Study

Abstract

[Catherine Jami is Senior Researcher at the French CNRS (REHSEIS, Universite Paris-Diderot). This article was written during her tenure as the French Government Fellow at Churchill College, when she was also a visiting scholar at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, UK. She has published extensively on seventeenthand eighteenth-century Chinese mathematics, as well as on the Jesuits and on the reception of the sciences they introduced in late Ming and early Qing China. She is currently completing a book on the imperial appropriation of mathematics during the Kangxi reign.]