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"José Monteiro's 'Vera, et unica praxis' : a seventeenth-century Jesuit primer for the learning of Mandarin Chinese and a later version" / Cristina Costa Gomes and Isabel Murta Pina

Published in Historiographia Linguistica - Volume 51, Issue 1-3, 2024 

Also available through Boston College Libraries

Abstract:

A manuscript written by the Portuguese Jesuit José Monteiro (1646–1720) and a later one by his French confrère Jean-François Foucquet (1665–1741) shed new light on the didactic materials used in the China mission during the initial stage of learning Chinese Mandarin as a second language. These manuscripts, which are written in Portuguese and romanised Mandarin, are the only surviving copies we know of, although others have existed. This paper argues that the two documents prove the existence of an earlier common model, even though they were written independently. This model lost to history circulated at least in the Fujian Province from the late 17th century onwards. It was partly the result of the compilation of several earlier materials produced since the beginning of the China mission, which had the same purpose of training new learners in the Chinese language. José Monteiro’s document further reveals his intention to systematise the original version and disseminate his manual more widely throughout the mission, probably by printing it.

Tomás Pereira : obras / coordenação, Luís Filipe Barreto ; tradução de latim para português, Arnaldo do Espírito Santo ; leitura, transcrição e notas, Ana Cristina da Costa Gomes, Isabel Murta Pina, Pedro Lage Correia.
Portuguese and Latin.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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