Analysis Of Terrien De Lacouperi's "Research On Ancient Chinese Science And Technology Civilization"

The research of ancient Chinese civilization in Lacouperi,as a strange specimen of the collision and exchange of Chinese and Western cultures,has always attracted the attention of Chinese and foreign scholars.People have focused on his "Chinese civilization from the west" from the beginning.Corresponding research has always had the problem of ineffectiveness and failure of cultural interpretation.However,Lacouperi's research is by no means the only end.The depth and breadth of its content should enable it to be included in the perspective of multiculturalism,and its research focus should also gradually shift from the slightly tense racial and ethnic issues.A more relaxed discussion of scientific and cultural values.This dissertation focuses the research on Lacouperi's comparison and integration of Chinese and Western science and technology civilizations,and tries to discover the content of �Research on Ancient Chinese Science and Technology Culture� in Lacouperi's text,and conduct a comparatively systematic combing and research on it.While making up for the deficiencies of related research in the academic world,discover and invent.This article believes that Lacouperi's research on ancient Chinese civilization embodies the latest achievements of Assyria and Western Sinology in the 18 th and19th centuries.Its argumentation shows the three dimensions of language,documents and cultural relics.The research method was popular in the British academic circles at that time.His empirical research methods;his research on ancient Chinese science and technology and culture focused on astronomy,calendar,agricultural technology,etc.Although these studies were mainly to support the examples cited in his "Chinese Civilization from the West",there are many more objective,including attitude and new perspective,not only set off a wave of comparison between Chinese and Western civilizations in that period,and to a certain extent promoted the spread of Western science and technology in China at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China,but also helped us to organize and study the ancient Chinese science and technology culture today,which provide some reference and enlightenment.