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SUMMARY:Science and empire: the view from Beijing\, c. 1700 - Catherine Ja
 mi (CNRS-SPHERE\, Paris)
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CONTACT:Helen Curry
DESCRIPTION:Twentieth-century historiography of imperialism has consistent
 ly depicted China as patient rather than as agent. This view ignores the f
 act that from the mid-17th century onwards\, Beijing was the centre of a l
 arge and aggressively expanding empire\, an empire unique in that the grea
 t majority of its conquests remain intact to the present day. The neglecte
 d example of this great land empire enables us to transcend the stereotype
  of science and empire studies as mainly or solely concerned with the expa
 nsion of European powers overseas. In this talk\, I will show how the scie
 nces of empire were constructed during the first century of the Qing dynas
 ty (1644–1911). Conversely\, I will explore the extent to and the ways i
 n which the Qing expansion in central Asia broadened the Chinese world of 
 knowledge.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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