Foreign Astral Sciences in China
From the Six Dynasties to the Northern Song
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 23 March 2026
- ISBN 9781138477599
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages484 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 1060 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 73 Illustrations, black & white; 73 Halftones, black & white; 34 Tables, black & white 698
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Short description:
This book explores the history of foreign astral science in China from the unique viewpoint of the knowledge introduced to the Middle Kingdom by monks, travellers, and merchants from different parts of Eurasia throughout the first millennium CE.
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This book explores the history of foreign astral science in China from the unique viewpoint of the knowledge introduced to the Middle Kingdom by monks, travellers, and merchants from different parts of Eurasia throughout the first millennium CE.
By comparing the extant works in Chinese with parallel materials in their original languages, including texts in Sanskrit and Pāli for the Buddhist materials, and in other languages for works by the Nestorians, Zoroastrians, and Manicheans, this book fills a lacuna in the understanding of the role foreign scientific ideas played in Chinese and East Asian societies.
Including full English translations of a number of Chinese texts of foreign origin for the first time, together with commentaries and the critically edited original Chinese texts, this book will appeal to students and scholars of the history of science and Chinese history.
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1. Introduction Part 1: History 2. Early Transmission and Reception 3. Indian Astronomical Knowledge during Sui and Tang 4. Exotic Planetary Lore in China from Mid-Tang to Northern Song 5. Interaction of foreign astral science with indigenous systems from Tang to Northern Song Part 2: Texts 6. Early Vedic and Buddhist Astral Texts 7. Sino-Indian astronomical texts during Sui and Tang 8. Planetary treatises across Eurasia 9. Conclusion
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