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East meets West : the Jesuits in China, 1582-1773 /
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TextPublication details: Chicago : Loyola University Press, ©1988.Description: xxxiii, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 0829405720
- 9780829405729
- 266/.251 19
- BV3417 .E27 1988
Contents:
Matteo Ricci and the ascent to Peking / Jonathan D. Spence -- The precursors of Ricci / Joseph Sebes -- Understanding the Chinese : a comparison of Matteo Ricci and the French Jesuit mathematicians sent by Louis XIV / John W. Witek -- Chinese art and the Jesuits in Peking / Harrie Vanderstappen -- Why did they become Christians? : Yang T'ing-yün, Li Chih-tsao, and Hsü Kuang-ch'i / Willard J. Peterson -- Late Ming society and the Jesuit missionaries / Albert Chan -- A serious matter of life and death : learned conversations at Foochow in 1627 / Bernard Hung-Kay Luk -- A Western interpretation of China : Jesuit cartography / Theodore N. Foss -- The seventeenth-century Jesuit translation project of the Confucian Four books / David E. Mungello.
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Papers read at a symposium sponsored by Loyola University, Chicago, Oct. 1982.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-309) and index.
Matteo Ricci and the ascent to Peking / Jonathan D. Spence -- The precursors of Ricci / Joseph Sebes -- Understanding the Chinese : a comparison of Matteo Ricci and the French Jesuit mathematicians sent by Louis XIV / John W. Witek -- Chinese art and the Jesuits in Peking / Harrie Vanderstappen -- Why did they become Christians? : Yang T'ing-yün, Li Chih-tsao, and Hsü Kuang-ch'i / Willard J. Peterson -- Late Ming society and the Jesuit missionaries / Albert Chan -- A serious matter of life and death : learned conversations at Foochow in 1627 / Bernard Hung-Kay Luk -- A Western interpretation of China : Jesuit cartography / Theodore N. Foss -- The seventeenth-century Jesuit translation project of the Confucian Four books / David E. Mungello.
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