Author: Ross, Andrew (Andrew C.)

A vision betrayed : the Jesuits in Japan and China, 1542-1742
Date1994
Publish_locationMaryknoll, NY
PublisherOrbis Books
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberBV3447.R67 1994
Descriptionxvii, 216 p., : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Note

A vision betrayed : the Jesuits in Japan and China, 1542-1742 / Andrew C. Ross.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Japan and China before the expansion of the Iberian sea-borne empires -- Francis Xavier and the mission to Japan -- Alessandro Valignano -- Christian century in Japan, 1549-1650 to the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1598 -- Christian century in Japan, 1549-1650 to the coming of the "closed land" -- Matteo Ricci and the road to Beijing -- Christian priest and Confucian intellectual -- China mission under Schall and Verbiest -- the Pope, the Bourbon Kings and the Kangxi Emperor -- Whence came the vision?

SubjectRicci, Matteo 利瑪竇, 1552-1610 Jesuits--Missions--China--History Valignano, Alessandro 範禮安, 1539-1606 Jesuits--Missions--Japan--History China--Church history--18th century Japan--Church history--To 1868 China--Church history--16th-17th centuries
ISBN0883449919
LCCN94-10623