
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.