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Recent Publications

                   Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map | Brill                  서양 선비, 우정을 논하다 대표 이미지

  Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange : the East Asian legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map / edited by Laura Hostetler

Leiden: Brill (2024). Studies in the history of Christianity in East Asia ; 9

"How did Asia come to be represented on European World maps? When and how did Asian Countries adopt a continental system for understanding the world? How did countries with disparate mapping traditions come to share a basic understanding and vision of the globe? This series of essays organized into sections on Jesuit Circuits of Communication and Publication; Jesuit World Maps in Chinese; Reverberations of Matteo Ricci's Maps in East Asia; and Reflections on the Curation of Cartographic Knowledge, go a long way toward answering these questions about the shaping of our modern understandings of the world" See Library Record for more Information

 Seoyang seonbi, ujeongeul nonhada 서양 선비, 우정을 논하다 : 마테오 리치 , 마르티노 마르티니 저자 / Jeong Min 정민 - 鄭珉

Seoul : Kimyŏngsa 김영사 (2023)

A Korean language study of two seminal works on friendship by Matteo Ricci (Jiaoyou lun 交友論) and Martino Martini (Qiuyou pian 逑友篇) and their influence on Joseon intellectual life. This text analyzes proverbs and anecdotes from Greek and Roman sources such as Cicero, Seneca, and Augustine, to the Bible and Aesop's Fables, and their interpretation and adaptation by scholars in Ming China and Joseon Korea. See Library Record for more information