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Sojourners in a strange land : Jesuits and their scientific missions in late imperial China
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ISBN: 9780226355597 0226355594 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. The University of Chicago Press

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Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. Hsia shows how these missionary-scientists remade themselves as they negotiated the place of the profane sciences in a religious enterprise. Sojourners in a Strange Land


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La troisieme mort des missions de Chine.
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ISBN: 9782755402223 2755402229 Year: 2008 Publisher: Paris : de Guibert

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Des chrétiens orientaux sont admis en Chine au VIIe siècle ; leurs petites communautés sont dispersées au IXe. Les franciscains que les empereurs Yuan laissent s'installer à la fin du XIIIe sont chassés à l'avènement des Ming en 1368. La " troisième mort " est l'épilogue de l'œuvre entamée, sous l'impulsion de saint François-Xavier, par le jésuite italien Ricci à partir de 1584. Sans succès. Le Français Gaubil le dit, vers 1750 " Les jésuites ont su se faire admettre comme savants, artistes, non faire reconnaître la Parole du Christ ". Les Empereurs poursuivent ceux de leurs sujets qui prêtent l'oreille aux étrangers, les persécutent. La dissolution de la Compagnie de Jésus, en 1773, porte le coup de grâce à l'entreprise. Nous suivons sa lente agonie à travers des textes dus aux derniers jésuites, aux lazaristes, leurs successeurs, aux MM. des Missions étrangères de Paris. " Nous sommes bien exposés à des désagréments, nous les souffrons avec patience ", écrit le lazariste Raux en 1795. Le dernier missionnaire mandarin meurt à Pékin, en 1838, un Portugais. " Le temps de la foi chrétienne en Chine n'était pas encore arrivé ", dit Benoît XVI. La Chine est la vérité des Chinois. Dieu seul sait quand elle entendra ce message d'un de ses fils. " Le confucianisme dont les normes de vie morale sont si bienfaisantes, trouve dans la révélation chrétienne le complément de lumière qui résout les problèmes devant lesquels nos sages ont eu l'humilité de s'arrêter, comprenant qu'il ne revient pas à l'homme de trancher des mystères du Ciel ".


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Reference guide to Christian missionary societies in China : from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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ISBN: 9780765618085 0765618087 Year: 2009 Publisher: Armonk Sharpe


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Waiting for China : the Anglo-Chinese college at Malacca, 1818-1843, and early nineteenth-century missions
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ISBN: 9622090117 9789622090118 Year: 1979 Publisher: Hong Kong Hong Kong university press


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Lettres édifiantes et curieuses de Chine par des missionnaires jésuites : 1702 - 1776
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ISBN: 2080703153 9782080703156 Year: 1979 Volume: 315 Publisher: Paris Garnier-Flammarion

Handbook of Christianity in China. 2 :1800 to the Present
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ISBN: 9789004114302 9004114319 9004391851 9789004114319 9789004391857 9004114300 Year: 2010 Volume: 15/2 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Who were the main actors in propagating Christianity in China? Where did Christian communities settle? What discussions were held in China, concerning Christianity? These, and many other, questions are answered in this reference work, which is divided in a systematic part and analytical articles. This handbook represents a true reference guide to the reception of Christianity in pre-1800 China. It presents to the reader, in comprehensive fashion, all current knowledge of Christianity in China, and guides him through the main Chinese and Western sources, bibliographies and archives. The scope of the volume is broad and covers a wide range of topics, such as theology, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, cannon, botany, art, music, and more.


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Il gesuita che disegno la Cina : la vita e le opere di Martino Martini
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ISBN: 8847015324 9786613002846 8847015332 1283002841 Year: 2010 Publisher: Milano : Springer,

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L'Occidente fu sempre attratto dalla Cina, ma la mitica "Terra di Mezzo" rimase un mondo sconosciuto, favoloso e irraggiungibile fino all'inizio del Seicento, quando il gesuita Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) penetrò in quell'immenso Paese, facendo conoscere alla Cina la civiltà europea. Fu un altro grande gesuita a compiere l'operazione inversa, rivelando all'Europa il volto della Cina: il trentino Martino Martini (1614-1661). Questo libro vuol essere un contributo alla conoscenza di un uomo straordinario per fede, scienza, capacità oratoria, coraggio fisico, abilità diplomatica e doti d'iniziativa. Visse solo 47 anni, di cui una dozzina passati sul mare o segregato in luoghi remoti e inospitali, ma, oltre a svolgere la sua missione evangelizzatrice in Cina, riuscì a raccogliere sul Celeste Impero una mole immensa di materiale, esponendola in alcune opere che ebbero in Europa vastissima risonanza. Tra queste un Atlante della Cina di ricchezza e precisione eccezionali. Sullo sfondo, il Seicento europeo mette in scena i suoi fasti e le sue miserie: secolo abietto e sontuoso, percorso dai fremiti del nuovo e dai sussulti del vecchio, che si apre alle innovazioni scientifiche più ardite e si accanisce nella cruenta repressione degli slanci riformatori, tra guerre interminabili, pestilenze e devastazioni, ma anche una straordinaria fioritura artistica e culturale. Dall'altra parte del mondo, in Cina, il Seicento fu altrettanto contraddittorio: insanguinato dalla feroce guerra di successione tra la vecchia dinastia dei Ming e la nuova dei Ching, fu tuttavia un'epoca di grande rinnovamento della civiltà cinese, che sfociò in un singolare amalgama di cultura letteraria, saggezza amministrativa, ritualità e credenze popolari, senza contare le millenarie tradizioni scientifiche e tecniche su cui si innestarono le grandi innovazioni matematiche, astronomiche e cartografiche europee, introdotte dai gesuiti insieme con la pratica evangelizzatrice. Protagonista di questo fecondo incontro di civiltà e di tradizioni, propugnatore di una prassi missionaria tollerante, rispettoso della sensibilità e delle consuetudini di quel popolo così fiero e civile, Martino Martini seppe interpretare il proprio apostolato con saggezza ed equilibrio, ma anche con rigore e disciplina. Nominato mandarino, esercitò la carica con dignità e decoro, al punto di diventare cinese egli stesso, per lingua, costumi e abiti, pur senza rinunciare in nulla alla sua fede.


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In the light and shadow of an emperor : Tomás Pereira, SJ (1645-1708), the Kangxi emperor and the Jesuit mission in China
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ISBN: 9781443837552 1443837555 Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge scholars,

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The present collection was written to commemorate the third centenary of the death of the Portuguese Jesuit, Tomas Pereira (1645-1708). Dealing with some of the most decisive and controversial moments in the history of the Jesuit mission in China during the Kangxi era (1662-1722), these essays were produced by an international team of scholars and cover a wide range of topics that reflect a permanent academic interest, in Europe and America as well as in China, in the history of the Catholic mission in China, Sino-Russian diplomacy, the history of Western science and music in China, intercultural history, and history of art. While the names of such missionaries as Matteo Ricci, Adam Schall and Ferdinand Verbiest are well known, Pereira has been relatively neglected, and this volume seeks to redress that imbalance. Pereira was important as a musician and diplomat and was closer to the Kangxi emperor than any other Westerner, something that enabled him to exert considerable influence for the protection of the Chinese Christians and also to further the interests of Portugal in China. However, towards the end of his life he saw his efforts undermined by the damaging consequences of the papal legation to China led by Charles-Thomas Maillard de Tournon.


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Inventaire des archives Vincent Lebbe
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ISBN: 2801701912 9782801701911 Year: 1982 Volume: 4 Publisher: Louvain-la-Neuve UCL. Faculté de théologie

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