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Florence Hsia: Saints and Mandarins

The Presidential Colloquium on Jesuits and the Liberal Arts
Saints and Mandarins: Science, religion and Jesuits in late imperial China

Florence Hsia, associate professor in the Department of the History of Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaks about her book Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China. Following her talk, Janine Shertzer, a physics professor at Holy Cross, offers a brief response.


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