"...Liu is the author of an apologetic collection of five essays entitled Juesi lu..."-- Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, vol. 1, p. 435.

Cover illustration: Bibliotheque National de France. Courant 7172.
本书据法囯囯家图书馆藏本排印.
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33册.

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

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JapSin I, 165.d
Jüesi lu 覺斯錄.
By Liu Ning 劉凝. One juan. Chinese bamboo paper in one volume. No date or place of publication.

The cover bears a label with the title and an inscription in ink: 江西南豐劉凝 (Liu Ning of Nanfeng in Jiangxi). The Latin inscription reads: “Disputatio de rerum | origine, et coeli significatione | a christiano Lieu.”

1. Yuanbenlun 原本論 (On the origin of the universe).
2. Tianzhu yici feichuang zi Xiyu 天主一詞非創自西域 (The term Lord of Heaven is not an invention of Westerners).
3. Bian Tiantong Miyun heshang sanshuo 辨天童密雲和尚三說 (A discussion on the three essays [On Heaven] of the monk Miyun of the Tiantong [monastery]).
4. Bian Tian sanshuo xubian 辨天三說序辨 (A criticism of the preface to the three essays On Heaven).
5. Fusong heshang Sanjiao zhenglun 撫松和尚三教正論 (A discussion on the Sanjiao zhenglun [A sound statement on the three religions: Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism] of the Buddhist monk Fusong).

Both Miyun and Fusong directed their writings against Christianity. Liu Ning tried to refute them by pointing out their mistakes. For the three essays On Heaven by Miyun, we refer our readers to Jap-Sin I, 155, where we have already spoken about this work.
With regard to the monk Fusong, Liu informs us that his name was Wu [宀+吾, var. 寤] and that he resided in the western part of Jiangxi in a monastery known as the Lianshi’an 蓮石庵. We have not seen the Sanjiao zhenglun, composed by Fusong, but according to Liu, the monk Wu (i.e., Fusong) cited Buddhism as the equal of Confucianism with the intention of giving importance to Buddhism. He then tried to bring in Daoism as a support for his religion and at the end he made himself a defender of his faith. In reality, Liu says, there was nothing new in Wu’s writing; all he did was to take up the arguments of the Buddhist scholar Yu Chunxi 虞淳熙 (zi 德園) and of Yang Guangxian 楊光先. Finally, Liu says that it was fortunate that Western missioners kept coming to China. Their activities helped to revive the teaching of Confucius and Mencius. By doing this they increased the hatred of the Buddhists and Daoists against Christianity and these were trying to fight side by side. However, Liu concluded, the emperor was fully aware of the orthodoxy of the missioners and through his ministers he had declared publicly that Christianity is not a false religion and therefore should not be forbidden.
As for essay no. 4, according to our author the preface to Miyun’s writing was based on the preface found in the Beiyouji 北遊集, a collection published by the Buddhist monk Hongjue 弘覺 (Daomin, see Jap-Sin I, 155). The author of this preface is said to have been the well-known scholar Qian Qianyi 錢謙益 (1582–1664), who signed himself Hongxuetang zhuren 鴻雪堂主人.
The book is written in good literary style, and its vigorous expression shows its author as a strong defender of the faith. Liu Ning (zi 二至) was a native of Nanfeng (Jiangxi). He was a tribute-student (gongsheng 貢生), who later became assistant instructor at the Confucian school of Chongyi 崇義 in the same province. The Siku tiyao cites two of his books: Jili bianlun 稽禮辨論 in one juan and Shiguwen dingben 石鼓文定本 in two juan (SKTY 1:497, 931). The Latin inscription on the cover of Jap-Sin I, 165.d mentions that he was a Christian and, indeed, from the apologetics he wrote he seems to have had a good understanding of the Catholic teaching. At the same time, he showed a wide knowledge of Buddhist teaching; probably he was a convert from Buddhism. Liu Ning wrote a preface to Pedro de la Piñuela’s Bencaobu 本草補 (see Jap-Sin II, 86).

Cf. Courant 7172 (Chüeh-ssu lu).
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 218-220.

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JapSin I, 149
Shengshi churao 盛世芻蕘.
By Feng Bingzheng 馮秉正 (Joseph Marie Anne de Moyriac de Mailla, 1669–1748).
Five juan. Chinese white paper.
Only juan 5 is preserved.

The first edition of this book was published in Beijing in 1733. It consists of five parts: 1. 溯源篇, 2. 救贖篇, 3. 靈魂篇, 4. 賞罰篇, 5. 異端篇. Cf. Courant 7052–7054: “Modeste recueil chrétien. Sur la création, la rédemption, l’âme, la rémunération, les fausses doctrines.”

Cf. Pfister, p. 600, no. 3; Hsü 1949, pp. 82–83; JWC 2:307–312.
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, p. 201.

84 poems composed by 71 Fujian authors dedicated to Giulio Aleni 艾儒略 S.J. and other missioners in Fujian. For full description see: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).
Xichao chongzheng ji 熙朝崇正集 : Memorials and edicts collected by missionaries and converts to show Imperial and official favor and respect for Christian doctrine. Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, p. 132.

Xingli zhenquan  性理真詮 / [P. Alexandro de la Charme, S.J. 孫德眧]

土山灣印書館重印乾隆癸酉年【1753】年校刊本. [This edition: 一九百三十五年 [1935]
Title in Latin on T.P. verso: Rationum naturalium recta explanatio

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105R ZKW 230.11 (Xu 425) *strip [c] [Xu 111-113, CY 112]
ms., Fang Xun 方壎, Xiwang leiyan 息妄類言 (1766), 2 juan, 2 vol., 2+46+64 ffnc (9/25); preface and index (ff 1a-2a, 2b); above the margin of several folios there are comments (punctuated in red), possibly added later. For 104R and 105R, cf. FH 1717. --Cf. Adrian Dudink, "The Zikawei Collection" (Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal XVIII (1996)), p.28.

In volume 4 of: Xujiahui cangshulou Ming Qing Tianzhujiao wenxian 徐家匯藏書樓明清天主教文獻.
For complete contents see: Standaert, Nicolas, Xujiahui cangshulou Ming Qing Tianzhujiao wenxian 徐家匯藏書樓明清天主教文獻.
For a description of all 37 texts, see the catalog of the Fujen Zikawei collection in Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal XVIII (1996).