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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Xu, Dongfeng (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Albany : SUNY Press, [2021]
Collection:SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.