China's Recent News: To Illuminate the History of Our Time

Author: (German) G.G. Leibniz (French) Mei Qianli Yang Baoyun
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Leibniz was one of the greatest scientists and philosophers in 17th-18th century Europe, and his attention and passion for China remained an important aspect of his academic thought throughout his career. Based on correspondence with Chinese missionaries, scattered materials, and his own research, Leibniz aimed to introduce Chinese scholars to Europe and promote exchanges and complementarity between the East and West in religion and science. This book is also the first foreign-language translation after the original Latin-French edition.