| Titre | Archiving Knowledge : A Life History of the Calendrical Treatises of the Chongzhen Reign (Chongzhen lishu) | |
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| Auteur | Chu Pingyi | |
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Revue | Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident |
| Numéro | Hors serie no 1, 2007 Qu'était-ce qu'écrire une encyclopédie en Chine ? | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | III. Écrire par citation : significations politiques et philosophiques |
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| Page | 159-184 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The history of Chinese astronomy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries can be considered as competitions in archive building between the Jesuits and Chinese astronomers. This paper describes the life history of the Calendrical Treatises of the Chongzhen Reign to demonstrate how the life of an archive is embedded in the sociopolitical network that sustains its existence, and how a shift of this network transforms the meaning of the archive. The Calendrical Treatises of the Chongzhen Reign is an imperially commissioned collectanea aiming at translating astronomical and mathematical knowledge transmitted from Europe in the seventeenth century. This paper illuminates how the compilation process of the Calendrical Treatises of the Chongzhen Reign and its variants bear the mark of struggle among interested social groups which attempted to stabilize the meaning of a body of knowledge by bestowing on it a corporeal format so as to inscribe meaning on the materiality of these books. An analysis of the compiling process and using of archives thus is the " commencement " to unravel the power relationship beneath the archive. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/oroc_0754-5010_2007_hos_1_1_1074 |
