Ming and Qing China
- Where
- the Ming and Qing empires, and the Jesuit mission within them
- When
- roughly the fourteenth to the early twentieth century
- What survives
- State calendar records, memorials and trial documents, alongside the correspondence and publications of the European missions.
2 entries
- The Astronomical Bureau and the Calendar Case
Calendar-making as a prerogative of state, the bureau that did it, and the prosecution of 1664 to 1669 that ended in a shadow measurement.
- The Chinese Lunisolar Calendar
Months set by conjunction, a solar year cut twenty-four ways, the leap-month rule, and the change from equal time to equal solar longitude.