This e-book is a undertaking in comparative heritage, yet alongside targeted axes, one old and the opposite historiographical. Its goal is to constructively juxtapose the early smooth ecu and chinese language methods to historic learn which have been known as "antiquarian." As an workout in old restoration, the essays during this quantity amass new information regarding the variety of antiquarian-type scholarship at the prior, on nature, and on peoples undertaken at both finish of the Eurasian landmass among 1500 and 1800. As a historiographical venture, the publication demanding situations the received---and frequently greatly lower than conceptualized---use of the time period "antiquarian" in either eu and chinese language contexts. Readers won't simply research extra in regards to the diversity of eu and chinese language scholarship at the past---and particularly the cloth past---but they're going to even be in a position to combine a number of the historiographical observations and corrections into new methods of conceiving of the historical past of historic scholarship in Europe because the Renaissance, and to mirror at the influence of those eu phrases on chinese language methods to the chinese language previous. This comparability is a two-way highway, with the eu culture clarified by means of wisdom of chinese language practices, and chinese language techniques greater understood while put along the eu ones.