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Matteo Ricci


Matteo Ricci
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Author : Michela Fontana
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2011-05-16

Matteo Ricci written by Michela Fontana and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-16 with History categories.


Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) is widely considered the most outstanding cultural mediator of all time between China and the West. This engrossing and fluid book offers a thorough, knowledgeable biography of this fascinating and influential man, telling a deeply human and captivating story that still resonates today.



Mission To China


Mission To China
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Author : Mary Laven
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-02-17

Mission To China written by Mary Laven and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-17 with History categories.


In the sixteenth century, the vast and sophisticated empire of China lay almost entirely unknown to Western travellers. As global trade expanded, this land of reputedly boundless wealth, pale-faced women, and indecipherable tongues began to feed the fantasies of European merchants and adventurers. The Catholic Church, meanwhile, saw in this great people millions of souls who would be damned unless the Christian message could be brought to them. In this book, Mary Laven tells the extraordinary story of the first Jesuit mission to China. Confronting enormous challenges, the Italian priest Matteo Ricci and a tiny handful of learned companions travelled thousands of miles from southern Europe to the very heart of the empire. In 1601, they gained permission from the notoriously xenophobic Wanli emperor to settle in the fabled Forbidden City. Living among eunuchs and mandarins, wearing the clothes and reading the books of Confucian scholars, Ricci and his associates strove to master the language and culture of their hosts. At the same time, they energetically preached the virtues of Western art and science. What were the motives of the carpenters and boatmen, the mothers, fathers and children who burned their idols and were cleansed with the waters of baptism? Mary Laven tries to answer these questions, as she brings this remote world vividly to life.



Matteo Ricci And The Catholic Mission To China 1583 1610


Matteo Ricci And The Catholic Mission To China 1583 1610
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Author : Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2016-02-11

Matteo Ricci And The Catholic Mission To China 1583 1610 written by Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-11 with History categories.


"Here at last is the text that many college teachers of Chinese, Asian, and world history have been waiting for: an accessible collection of primary sources on the life of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci and the Catholic mission that he helped establish in China. Ricci's missionary career indeed constituted a key moment in modern history, for it was through his examples and recommendations that the Jesuits in China collectively adopted an accommodative approach to Chinese culture and embarked on various projects of cultural translation that resulted in the first wave of sustained interactions between Chinese and European civilizations. Instructors and students alike will benefit greatly from Hsia's lucid introduction, which sets Ricci's life story against the broader background of Portuguese Asia, Catholic renewal, and late Ming China; the pithy, informative introductory statements preceding each document; a chronological chart of major relevant events; and an excellent annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources in multiple languages. This is a very affordable text produced at the highest academic standards." —Qiong Zhang, Associate Professor of History, Wake Forest University



Following The Steps Of Matteo Ricci To China


Following The Steps Of Matteo Ricci To China
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Author : Xiping Zhang
language : en
Publisher: 五洲传播出版社
Release Date : 2006

Following The Steps Of Matteo Ricci To China written by Xiping Zhang and has been published by 五洲传播出版社 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with China categories.




A Jesuit In The Forbidden City


A Jesuit In The Forbidden City
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Author : R. Po-chia Hsia
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-10-28

A Jesuit In The Forbidden City written by R. Po-chia Hsia and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-28 with History categories.


A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the cultural divides between China and the West by immersing himself in the language and culture of his hosts. Even 400 years later, he is still one of the best known westerners in China, celebrated for introducing western scientific and religious ideas to China and for explaining Chinese culture to Europe. The first critical biography of Ricci to use all relevant sources, both Chinese and Western, A Jesuit in the Forbidden City tells the story of a remarkable life that bridged Counter-Reformation Catholic Europe and China under the Ming dynasty. Hsia follows the life of Ricci from his childhood in Macerata, through his education in Rome, to his sojourn in Portuguese India, before the start of his long journey of self-discovery and cultural encounter in the Ming realm. Along the way, we glimpse the workings of the Portuguese maritime empire in Asia, the mission of the Society of Jesus, and life in the European enclave of Macau on the Chinese coast, as well as invaluable sketches of Ricci's fellow Jesuits and portraits of the Chinese mandarins who formed networks indispensible for Ricci's success. Examining a range of new sources, Hsia offers important new insights into Ricci's long period of trial and frustration in Guangdong province, where he first appeared in the persona of a foreign Buddhist monk, before the crucial move to Nanchang in 1595 that led to his sustained intellectual conversation with a leading Confucian scholar and subsequent synthesis of Christianity and Confucianism in propagating the Gospels in China. With his expertise in cartography, mathematics, and astronomy, Ricci quickly won recognition, especially after he had settled in Nanjing in 1598, the southern capital of the Ming dynasty. As his reputation and friendships grew, Ricci launched into a sharp polemic against Buddhism, while his career found its crowning achievement in the imperial capital of Beijing, leaving behind a life, work, and legacy that is still very much alive today.



Matteo Ricci Gesuita Scienziato Umanista In Cina Ediz Inglese


Matteo Ricci Gesuita Scienziato Umanista In Cina Ediz Inglese
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Author : Michela Fontana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970

Matteo Ricci Gesuita Scienziato Umanista In Cina Ediz Inglese written by Michela Fontana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Biography & Autobiography categories.




Matteo Ricci And The Catholic Mission To China 1583 1610


Matteo Ricci And The Catholic Mission To China 1583 1610
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Author : R. Po-chia Hsia
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Release Date : 2016

Matteo Ricci And The Catholic Mission To China 1583 1610 written by R. Po-chia Hsia and has been published by Hackett Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Missionaries categories.


Portuguese Asia -- Catholic renewal -- Ming China -- Matteo Ricci -- Ricci in our time.



The Memory Palace Of Matteo Ricci


The Memory Palace Of Matteo Ricci
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Author : Jonathan D. Spence
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books
Release Date : 1985-09-03

The Memory Palace Of Matteo Ricci written by Jonathan D. Spence and has been published by Penguin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-09-03 with History categories.


From the renowned historian and author of The Death of Woman Wang, a vivid and gripping account of the 16th-century missionary’s remarkable sojourn to Ming China In 1577, the Jesuit Priest Matteo Ricci set out from Italy to bring Christian faith and Western thought to Ming dynasty China. To capture the complex emotional and religious drama of Ricci's extraordinary life, Jonathan Spence relates his subject's experiences with several images that Ricci himself created—four images derived from the events in the Bible and others from a book on the art of memory that Ricci wrote in Chinese and circulated among members of the Ming dynasty elite. A rich and compelling narrative about a fascinating life, The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci is also a significant work of global history, juxtaposing the world of Counter-Reformation Europe with that of Ming China.



Wise Man Of The West


Wise Man Of The West
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Author : Vincent Cronin
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-06-30

Wise Man Of The West written by Vincent Cronin and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Matteo Ricci, an early recruit of the Jesuit order, was sent to China as a missionary in 1582. If he approached the Emperor with a Bible in one hand, in the other he carried much of the accumulated technological and philosophical wisdom of the late Renaissance Europe, and thus found favour among the Mandarins, the men of learning who enjoyed high status at the Imperial Court. He learned Chinese the better to discuss with them the problems in science and technology, as also questions of religion and the hereafter. But his progress was not unopposed, for the Wise Man from the West came to be seen as an unsettling element in a too-settled society. Ricci died in 1610, disappointed in his ambition to convert the Emperor, and with him the whole of China, to Christianity. But the seed was sown and the crop, even after almost a century of atheistic communism, continues to grow in present-day China. This story of the first fully documented contact between West and East offers a fascinating insight into the history of ideas during one of the most fertile eras in European and Chinese history. Vincent Cronin has built up a reputation with his scholarly, elegantly written works of history and biography, as one of the finest popular historians of his generation. This early book proves his gift as an acutely observant and sensitive historian.



Defying Danger


Defying Danger
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Author : Nicole Gregory
language : en
Publisher: Barbera Foundation
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Defying Danger written by Nicole Gregory and has been published by Barbera Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.


The Forbidden City—home to the opium-addicted Ming Dynasty emperor and protected by thousands of ruthless eunuchs—no European had ever been inside. Would a simple Jesuit priest be the first? Armed with a homemade clock, a wealth of patience, and an uncompromising drive to share his faith with a new people, Father Matteo Ricci would overcome one barrier only to be met by another: treacherous seas, a complex language, and a culture with an unshakable mistrust of foreigners and rooted in the teachings of Buddha and Confucius.In sharing European understanding of astronomy, Ricci garnered the respect of the Chinese and despite the urgency he felt to talk about his beliefs, he tread carefully and respectfully, adopting their ways rather than imposing his own. He was one of the first Westerners to speak and read Mandarin and compiled the first Chinese-Western dictionary. By translating Greek mathematics texts into Chinese and Confucian works into Latin, as well as drawing the first world map with Chinese characters, Ricci forged a path for future scholars, explorers, and missionaries.