"A model for all Christian women" : Candida Xu, a Chinese Christian woman of the seventeenth century / Gail King.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-153) and index.
"Monumenta Serica Institute, Sankt Augustin."

Acknowledgments -- Preface by D.E. Mungello -- List of Abbreviations -- Map: China in the time of Candida Xu -- Introduction.
Chapter One: Roots of the Xu Family: The Generations before Candida Xu
Chapter Two: Childhood and Married Life
Chapter Three: The Widowed Years
Chapter Four: The Legacy of Candida Xu
Appendices:
Appendix 1: "Baolun tang gao" 寶倫堂稿. Autobiographical Preface by Hesha 鶴沙 (Xu Zuanzeng 許纘曾). Translation of Portions Related to Candida Xu

Appendix 2: Xu Zuanzeng’s Biography of His Mother Candida Xu. Translation of "Compendio de la vida y la muerte de Doña Candida, sacado de un librito, que imprimió su hijo D. Basilio Hiù." Translated by Matt Hill

Appendix 3: Xu Yunxi, Foreword to the 1938 edition of Yiwei Zhongguo fengjiao taitai 一位中國奉教太太

Bibliography --Index with Glossary

"This biography of Candida Xu (1607-1680), granddaughter of the prominent Chinese Christian convert and statesman Xu Guangqi (1562-1633) and foremost Chinese Christian woman of the seventeenth century, is based on the biography of Candida Xu titled Histoire d'une dame chrétienne (Paris, 1688) written by her confessor Philippe Couplet, S.J. (1623-1693), an obituary of his mother and other writings by her eldest son, and the Xu family history. Using these as well as other relevant European missionary and Chinese language sources, Candida Xu's life as daughter, wife, mother, and generous contributor to the Christian Church is recounted. Events in her life are set in the context of historical and religious circumstances in China at the time. Consideration of the situation of women, particularly Christian women, draws out how Candida Xu's faith helped her and other believing Christian women to gain greater freedom of choice and action"-- Provided by publisher.

N.B. LC retains: Hiu, Candide, 1607-1680. Candida Xu (Xu Gandida 徐甘弟大, 1607-1680); granddaughter of the eminent convert Xu Guangqi 徐光啓 (1562-1633))

Cover: Madame Candida Xu 徐甘弟大 (1607-1680), early Chinese convert and patroness of Christianity. From Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, Description ... de la Chine (1736) III, 21. (see pp. 41-56). -- A. Dudink, The Zikawei (徐家匯) Collection in the Jesuit Theologate Library at Fujen 輔仁 University (Taiwan): Background & Draft Catalog. -- G. King, Couplet’s Biography of Madame Candida Xu (1607-1680). -- S. Naquin, An Addendum on Jesuit Tombstones. --New Publications.
Abstracted and indexed in Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life.

Cover: The Crucifixion of Jesus from Giulio Aleni, SJ’s Tianzhu jiangsheng chuxiang jingjie 天主降生出像經解 (The Incarnation of the Lord of Heaven through illustrations and commentary)(1637), based on Gerónimo Nadal, SJ’s Evangelicae historiae imagines ... (Antwerp 1593).
Necrology: Rev. Edward J. Malatesta, S.J. 馬愛德神父 (1932-1998); Prof. Dr. Bernward (Heinrich) Willeke OFM (1913-1997). -- Michael C. Lazich: E.C. Bridgman and the Missionary Roots of American Sinology -- Claudia von Collani: Did Jesus Christ Really Come to China? -- Gail King: Note on a Late Ming Dynasty Chinese Description of “Ricci’s Church” in Beijing. New publications, Colloquia.

Cover: a sextant (Jixianyi 紀限儀, Liufenyi 六分儀) built by Fr. Ferdinand Verbiest in 1673 and preserved in the Old Bureau of Astronomy 北京古觀象台 in Beijing. -- Han Qi 韓琦: Zhang Xingyao yu Qinming chuanjiao yueshu 張星曜與欽命傳教約述 (Zhang Xingyao and the Collected Discussions on the Imperial Decrees concerning the missionaries) -- Rita Widmaier: Notizen dem Leibniz-Archiv Hannover -- Gail King: Christian charity in seventeenth-century China -- Eugenio Menegon: The Biblioteca Casanatense (Rome) and its Chinese materials -- Jonathan Chaves: Review article: Inculturation versus Evangelization: Are Contemporary Values Causing Us to Misinterpret the 16-18th Century Jesuit Missionaries? Art on the Jesuit mission in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773 / Gauvin Alexander Bailey -- New publications.

Cover: Jackfruit [boluomi 波羅密] (Artocarpus heterophyllus), from Michael Boym’s Flora Sinensis (Vienna, 1656)
Necrology of Prof. Julia Ching 秦家懿教授. -- Bianca Maria Rinaldi: Chinese flora presented to seventeenth-century Europe: a “taste of foreign fruit from the Chinese garden.” -- Ad Dudink 杜鼎克: The Chinese Christian books of the former Beitang Library 北堂圖書館. -- Gail King 歐凱妮: For the Instruction of Those Aspiring to be Christians: João Soerio’s Tianzhu shengjiao yueyan 天主聖教約言. -- New publications.

Adrian Dudink 杜鼎克: In memoriam, Erik Zürcher 許理和 (1928-2008) and a note (p. 16, by D.E.M. and undersigned) on Zürcher's calligraphy on the cover of this volume of SWCRJ. [Following notes by Adrian Dudink from EU-CHINA listserv].

Paul Rule 魯保祿: The Acta Pekinensia Project (taken from a paper for a conference in Taipei July 2005, published in English [and not in a Chinese translation, as the first footnote on p. 17 says] in Gu Weiying ed., Dongxi jiaoliu shi de xinju ..., Taibei, 2005, pp. 207-246; pp. 18-29 contain virtually the same text as pp. 227-245). pp. 17-29.

Gail King 歐凱妮: "The Ten Commandments of João Soeiro" (introduction to and [pp. 34-39] translation of an early 17th-century explanation of the Ten Commandments and found in Soeiro's Tianzhu shengjiao yueyan 天主聖教約言, the Chinese text of which is reproduced in vol. 1 of Chinese Christian Texts from the Roman Archives of the Society of Jesus, Taibei, 2002, pp. 253-280; at the end of the present article, pp. 40-55, the pages 265-280 have been reproduced). pp. 30-55.

Reviews of new publications in the field:
Charbonnier, Jean-Pierre 沙百里, Christians in China: A.D. 600- 2000. Trans. M.N.L. Couve de Murville, 2007. Collani, Claudia von, Harald Holz & Konrad Wegmann, Uroffenbarung un Daoismus: Jesuitische Missionshermeneutik des Daoismus. Reihe Daodejing-Forschungen, 2008. Fatica, Michele, curator, Mattep Ripa e il Collegio dei Cinesi di Napoli (1682-1869), 2006. Standaert, Nicolas & Ad Dudink, Forgive us our sins: Confession in late Ming and early Qing China, 2006. Wang, Peter Chen-main 王成勉, ed., Contextualization of Christianity in China: an evaluation in modern perspective, 2007. Rita Widmaier, G.W. Leibniz: Die Briefwechsel mit den Jesuiten in China (1689-1714), Hamburg, 2006, by Daniel J. Cook (with Henry Rosemont compiler of Writings on China: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1994). pp. 56-80.

[Cover: Kaifeng Synagogue interior, manuscripts of Jean Domenge, S.J., 1717-1725, Archiv S.J. Prov. Paris.]
Thomas G. Oey 黃美樹: 'Essay on the Term for Diety', a key text of William Jones Boone in his nineteenth-century debate with William Medhurst on the Protestant Chinese term for God.
Roman Malek, SVD 馬雷凱: China im Lexicon für Theologie und Kirche (LThK).
Gail King 歐凱妮: Four editions of Couplet's biography of Madame Candida Xu.

Review article: Visual culture as a historical source: Reed, Marcia & Paola Demattè, eds. China on Paper: European and Chinese works from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Standaert, Nicolas. An illustrated Life of Christ presented to the Chinese emperor: the history of the Jincheng shuxiang (1640).

New publications: Mythistory in Sino-Western contacts. Jesuit missionaries and the pillars of the Chinese Catholic religion, by Chen Min-sun. Confucian tradition and global education. The Tang Chun-i Lectures for 2005, by Wm. T. de Bary et al. Chinese and Jews: encounters between cultures, by Irene Eber. Sino-Western relations, conceptions of China, cultural influences and the development of sinology disclosed in Western printed books, 1477-1877, by Björn Löwendahl. The Jesuits, the Padroado and East Asian science (1552-1773), Luís Saraiva & Catherine Jamie, eds. The interweaving of rituals: funerals in the cultural exchange between China and Europe, by Nicolas Standaert. Drawing the dragon: Western European reinvention of China, by Tao Zhijian. Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930): Missionar in China und Vermittler chinesischen Geistguts, by Hartmut Walravens.

Luisa M. Paternicò, “Two powers without cannons: The late-Qing government and the Holy See” -- Gail King, “Spaces for belief: Christianity, women, and accommodation in seventeenth-century China” -- Adrian Dudink, “The Zikawei 徐家匯 manuscript copy (1885) of Wang Zheng’s Renhui yue 仁會約 (Rules of the Humanitarian Society, 1634)” -- Phebe Xu Gray 徐秀麗, “Biographical sketch of Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935)”-- Mario Cams, “The discovery of Chinese Rites Controversy documents in a branch of the Bibliothèque nationale de France” [Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal] -- Translation of the Journal of Lucas Augstinus Ly (Li Shiyin 李世音, Chinese Catholic priest), Part III: 1751-1752” (Joseph Ruellen translated, Robert Entenmann annotated). [ for Parts I-II, see SWCRJ 33-34 (2011-12) ]

Reviews:
J. Marinescu of N. Golvers, Libraries of Western learning for China (2012); L. Brockey of N. Golvers, Portuguese books and their readers in the Jesuit mission of China (17th – 18th centuries) (2011); D. Mungello of M. Kollár, Ein Leben im Konflikt: P. Franz Xaver Biallas SVD (1878-1936). Chinamissionar and Sinologe im Licht seiner Korres-pondenz (2011); Joseph Tse-Hei Lee 李榭熙 of John T.P. Lai (ed.) Negotiating religious gaps: The enterprise of translating Christian tracts by Protestant missionaries in nineteenth-century China (2012); D. Mungello of the Chinese translation by Cui Huajie 崔华杰 (Nanjing, 2011) of Tiedemann’s Violence and fear in North China: Christian mission and social conflict on the eve of the Boxer Uprising (unpublished doctoral thesis of 1991).

Song Liming 宋黎明 : Two Daoists who encountered Matteo Ricci in Nanjing: Xingshenzi 醒神子 and Li Chedu 李徹度. -- Gail King 歐凱尼 : The Lou-District Chinese Christian Orphanage, 1674-ca. 1850. -- Wu Huiyi 吳蕙儀 : Fr. Dentrecolles’s letters and the circulation of smallpox inoculation in the early 18th century as a Sino-Ottoman-European story. -- Arne Benjamin Slovik 魏德光 (1918-2014): Memoirs.

Reviews: Anthony E. Clark, Heaven in Conflict: Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi (2015) / R.G. Tiedemann. -- Shu-Jyuan Deiwiks, et al. Europe meets China-China meets Europe: the beginnings of European-Chinese scientific exchange in the 17th century (2014) / D.E. Mungello. -- Michael Keevak, Becoming Yellow: a short history of racial thinking and race and racism in modern East Asia (2011) . Rotem Kowner & Walter Demel, Race and racism in modern East Asia: Western and Eastern constructions (2012) / Laura Hostetler 何羅娜. -- Rotem Kowner, From White to Yellow: the Japanese in European racial thought, 1300-1735 / D.E. Mungello. -- Michelle T. King, Between birth and death: female infanticide in nineteenth-century China (2014) / Jocelyn M.N. Marinescu 倪卓熙. -- Liam Matthew Brockey, The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia (2014) / Dominic Sachsenmaier.