Matteo Ricci And The Catholic Mission To China 1583 1610
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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.
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
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.
China In The Sixteenth Century
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Author : Matteo Ricci
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
China In The Sixteenth Century written by Matteo Ricci and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Missions categories.
Journals of a pioneer Jesuit missionary in China before doors were closed to the outside world.
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.
Strange Names Of God
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Author : Sangkeun Kim
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2004
Strange Names Of God written by Sangkeun Kim and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Christianity and other religions categories.
One of the most precarious and daunting tasks for sixteenth-century European missionaries in the cross-cultural mission frontiers was translating the name of «God» (Deus) into the local language. When the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) introduced the Chinese term Shangti as the semantic equivalent of Deus, he made one of the most innovative cross-cultural missionary translations. Ricci's employment of Shangti was neither a simple rewording of a Chinese term nor the use of a loan-word, but was indeed a risk-taking «identification» of the Christian God with the Confucian Most-High, Shangti. Strange Names of God investigates the historical progress of the semantic configuration of Shangti as the divine name of the Christian God in China by focusing on Chinese intellectuals' reaction to the strangely translated Chinese name of God.
The Jesuit Missions To China And Peru 1570 1610
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Author : Ana Carolina Hosne
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-04
The Jesuit Missions To China And Peru 1570 1610 written by Ana Carolina Hosne and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-04 with Social Science categories.
The rulers of the overseas empires summoned the Society of Jesus to evangelize their new subjects in the ‘New World’ which Spain and Portugal shared; this book is about how two different missions, in China and Peru, evolved in the early modern world. From a European perspective, this book is about the way Christianity expanded in the early modern period, craving universalism. In China, Matteo Ricci was so impressed by the influence that the scholar-officials were able to exert on the Ming Emperor himself that he likened them to the philosopher-kings of Plato’s Republic. The Jesuits in China were in the hands of the scholar-officials, with the Emperor at the apex, who had the power to decide whether they could stay or not. Meanwhile, in Peru, the Society of Jesus was required to impose Tridentine Catholicism by Philip II, independently of Rome, a task that entailed compliance with the colonial authorities’ demands. This book explores how leading Jesuits, Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) in China and José de Acosta (1540-1600) in Peru, envisioned mission projects and reflected them on the catechisms they both composed, with a remarkable power of endurance. It offers a reflection on how the Jesuits conceived and assessed these mission spaces, in which their keen political acumen and a certain taste for power unfolded, playing key roles in envisioning new doctrinal directions and reflecting them in their doctrinal texts.
The True Meaning Of The Lord Of Heaven T Ien Chu Shih I
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Author : Matteo Ricci
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The True Meaning Of The Lord Of Heaven T Ien Chu Shih I written by Matteo Ricci and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with categories.
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.
Journey To The East
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Author : Liam Matthew BROCKEY
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Journey To The East written by Liam Matthew BROCKEY and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with History categories.
It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This “journey to the East” is explored by Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China.