The Spreading Of Western Scientific Literature In The Late Ming And The Early Qing Dynasty

Human society is to be able to develop to today's civilization,which has close relationship to the cultural spreading and communication.From the 16th to the 18th century, namely the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, a large number of Jesuit missionary came to China preach their religion,at the same time brought plenty of western science and technology literature.This document communication activities with considerable scale and certainrepresentativeness, According to the missionaries' quantity, nationality and their dissemination area. The missionaries, Missionaries, led by Matteo Ricci acted as the bridge of cultural transmission, introduction, translation, writing, dissemination of a large number of Western scientific literature, Under the guideline"academic mission",this period of literature communication campaigns have been widely carried out. Western mathematics, astronomy, geography, physics, medicine and other intellectual successively introduced to China,Which play a siginfident role in the development of Chinese history. The spread of western scientific literature promoted the modernization transformation of Chinese traditional dicipline, opened Chinese scholars horizons, Promoted the transformation of Pragmatism,shaken 'huaxia centres' traditional concept,all these things make Chinese intelligentsia began to survey the world around us correctly.However,because of the confliction between the religious ideas of Western missionaries and Chinese traditional culture, making this document communication activities ended with the unsatisfactory result.In this article,by researching the communication of the western science and technology literature in China, tyring to make an objective description to this historical period, from which to gain experience and lessons,and promote China's scientific and cultural development.