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Friendship and hospitality : the Jesuit-Confucian encounter in late Ming China /

Offers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Xu, Dongfeng (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : SUNY Press, [2021]
Colección:SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part One Friendship and the Jesuits
  • 1 Striving for Divine Union: The Wholly Other and the Jesuit Vocation
  • 2 Other Rhetoric: Reading Matteo Ricci's On Friendship
  • Part Two Hospitality and the Confucians
  • 3 The Subject of Hospitality and Sino-centrism: Theory and Chinese Cultural Background
  • 4 Situating the Middle Kingdom: Matteo Ricci's World Map, the Wobbling Center, and the Undoing of the Host
  • 5 Reforming the Calendar: The Ming Empire's Stairway to Heaven through the Jesuits
  • 6 The Confucian Hospitality: Responding to the Jesuits
  • Conclusion
  • Notes.