"...The critique on Buddhism was further developed in Piwang lüeshuo tiaobo 闢妄略說條駁 (1689) in which Zhang Xingyao and Hong Ji (of Hangzhou) reacted against the rebuttal of the anti-Buddhist essay Piwang (attributed to Xu Guangqi) by the monk Xingce 行策 (1628-1682)"—-Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, p. 618; Mungello, The Forgotten Christians of Hangzhou (1994).

明末淸初耶稣会思想文献汇编 = An expository collection of the Christian philosophical works between the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of the Qing dynasty in China ; 第36册.

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vol. 8 -- 50. Zhang Xingyao 張星曜. Shengjiao zanming 聖教贊銘 [7067 I]

"聖教贊銘 (Inscriptions eulogising the sage teaching [or "Eulogies of the Holy Teaching" following Menegon]) between ca. 1680 and 1690)....Its thirty-eight poems correspond to the seventy-two paintings that were first hung in the Hangzhou church in 1678. Fire destroyed the church interior in 1692, but fortunately Zhang’s poetry preserved this remarkable monument to Christianity--Cf. Handbook of Christianity in China (2001), p. 433.

See: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

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JapSin I, (38/42) 40/7a
Sidian shuo 祀典說.
By Zhang Xingyao 張星曜 of Hangzhou (Zhejiang).
Manuscript, folios 33–46. Chinese bamboo paper, one volume. 24 x 13.5 cm.

The cover bears the title and a Portuguese inscription: “Este he obra de un Letrado de Hoan cheu. A mandou o P. Intorcetta.”

Zhang Xingyao (zi 虎臣, hao Yinazi 依納子 [Ignatius]), was a native of Hangzhou and came from a scholar family. His father Zhang Fuyan 傅岩 (zi 殷甫, hao 伯雨) had been a disciple of Michael Yang Tingyun 楊廷筠. Zhang Xingyao was baptized about the year 1678 (Kangxi 17). In 1689 (Kangxi 28) he and his countryman Hong Ji 洪濟 published the Piwang 闢妄 of Xu Guangqi and appended to it a small treatise, written by them together, entitled Piwang lüeshuo tiaobo 闢妄略說條駁 (cf. Jap-Sin I, 132a).
Zhang also wrote the Tianjiao mingbian 天教明辯, the manuscript of which (in twenty volumes) is still to be found in the library of the Beitang in Beijing. The preface he wrote for this book is dated 1711 (Kangxi 51). The book was too voluminous and never came to see the light. Instead Zhang Xingyao made an abridgement in three parts, to which he gave the title Tian Ru tongyi kao 天儒同異考 (A study on the difference between Catholicism and Confucianism). The three parts are:

1. The Catholic religion is in harmony with Confucianism.
2. The Catholic religion adds something new to Confucianism.
3. The Catholic religion excels Confucianism.

The preface by the author is dated 1702. The introductory note (bianyan 弁言), however, was written in 1715, when Zhang Xingyao was 83 sui. So we know that Zhang was born in 1633 (Chongzhen 6).
Zhang Xingyao wrote another book, the Lidai tongjian jishi benmo bu houbian 歷代通鑑紀事本末補後編 in 50 juan. The manuscript is mentioned by Mo Youzhi 莫友芝 (1811–1871) in his catalogue Song-Yuan jiubenshu jingyanlu 宋元舊本書經眼錄. The Beitang library catalogue (no. 1946) gives an incomplete manuscript of this work in two volumes, containing only juan 1–7.
Cf. JWC 2:99–104.

Source: Albert Chan, SJ, Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 53-55.

Indexed (perhaps erroneously) also as Tianzhujiao Rujiao tongyi kao 天主教儒教同異考—cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1, p. 433.

本书据1715年抄本排印.
明末淸初耶稣会思想文献汇编 = An expository collection of the Christian philosophical works between the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of the Qing dynasty in China ; 第37册.

Local access dig.pdf. in folder: [Andrew Chung Series].

Contents: Tian Ru tongyi kao 天儒同異考 -- Piwang tiaobo heke 闢妄條駁合刻 -- Qinming chuanjiao yueshu 欽命傳教約述 -- Shengjiao zanming 聖教贊銘 (附: 聖人宗徒十四位行實) -- Sidian shuo 祀典說.

Piwang lüeshuo tiaobo 闢妄略說條駁. [Pi lüeshuo tiaobo 闢略說條駁. Piwang shuo tiaobo 闢妄說條駁] "...The critique on Buddhism was further developed in Piwang lüeshuo tiaobo 闢妄略說條駁 (1689) in which Zhang Xingyao and Hong Ji (of Hangzhou) reacted against the rebuttal of the anti-Buddhist essay Piwang (attributed to Xu Guangqi) by the monk Xingce 行策 (1628-1682)"—-Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, p. 618; Mungello, The Forgotten Christians of Hangzhou (1994).

Sidian shuo 祀典說. For full details see Jap-Sin I, (38/42) 40/7a .

"....Zhang also wrote the Tianjiao mingbian 天教明辯, the manuscript of which (in twenty volumes) is still to be found in the library of the Beitang in Beijing. The preface he wrote for this book is dated 1711 (Kangxi 51). The book was too voluminous and never came to see the light. Instead Zhang Xingyao made an abridgement in three parts, to which he gave the title Tian Ru tongyi kao 天儒同異考 (A study on the difference between Catholicism and Confucianism). The three parts are:

1. The Catholic religion is in harmony with Confucianism.
2. The Catholic religion adds something new to Confucianism.
3. The Catholic religion excels Confucianism.

The preface by the author is dated 1702. The introductory note (bianyan 弁言), however, was written in 1715, when Zhang Xingyao was 83 sui. So we know that Zhang was born in 1633 (Chongzhen 6)."
Source: Albert Chan, SJ, Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 53-55.

Full bibliographic details see Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).
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"總領天神彌格爾賛 -- This is a changed (or corrected?) version (done by the author or by someone else) of the poem or inscription about the archangel Michael, Zong ling tian shen zan 總領天神賛 (in: Zhang Xingyao, Sheng jiao zan ming~, pp. 578-579): instead of 獲蒙神翼 (p. 578/79), it reads 主命神翼 , and instead of 十誡畀世，示升天國 (p. 579), it reads 冠眾億萬，神位盪滅". Attributed to Zhang Xingyao 張星曜 in Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).
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