Subject: Yang Guangxian 楊光先, 1597-1669--Criticism and interpretation

Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal XVI (1994)
AuthorDudink, Ad 杜鼎克Huang Yi-Long 黃一農Collani, Claudia vonMungello, D.E.Menegon, Eugenio 梅歐金
PlaceWaco, TX
PublisherBaylor University Dept. of History
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish, German, Chinese
TypeSerial (Annual)
Series
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberBV3410.C44 no.16
Description80 p. ; 21.5 cm.
NoteSino-Western Cultural Relations Journal XVI (1994) / D.E. Mungello 孟德衛, SWCRJ Editor.
Issues 1-10 entitled: China Mission Studies (1550-1800) Bulletin.
Cover title also in Chinese: Zhong-Xi wenhua jiaoliushi zazhi 中西文化交流史雜誌 [Zhongguo Tianzhujiaoshi yanjiu 中國天主教史研究].
Abstracted and indexed in Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life.

Cover: first page of Zhou Xianchen’s preface (1607) to M. Ricci’s Tianzhu shiyi, reproduced from Zhou’s Xuelin waibian 周獻臣, 鷽林外編 (Wanli edition) treated in Mr. Dudink’s article.

黃一農: 從<始信錄序>析究楊光先的性格 [Huang Yilong: Explaining Yang Guangxian’s temperament by drawing from the Shi xin lu preface.
A. Dudink: A previously unknown preface (1607) by Zhou Xianchen to Ricci’s Tianzhu shiyi
C. von Collani: Der Deutsche Philosoph Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz zum chinesischen Ritenstreit.

New Publications in the field: Singing of the Source: nature and God in the poetry of the Chinese painter Wu Li, Jonathan Chaves (1993) -– A question of rites: Friar Domingo Navarrete and the Jesuits in China, J.S. Cummins (1993) -– The Astronomia Europaea of Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J., Noel Golvers (1993) -– L’Europe en Chine, interactions scientifiques, religieuses et culturelles aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, C. Jami & H. Delahaye (1993) -– Asia in the making of Europe, volume III, Donald Lach & Edwin Van Kley (1993) -– Die “Geschichte der höchst bemerkenswerten dinge und sitten im chinesischen königreich” des Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza -– The forgotten Christians of Hangzhou, D.E. Mungello (1994) –- One hundred Roman documents concerning the Chinese Rites controversy (1645-1941), D. St. Sure, R. Noll (1992) –- Shanghai Library catalog of Western rare books (1992)

Eugenio Menegon: Archivo de la Provincia del Santo Rosario (APSR).

Wang tui jixiong bian 妄推吉凶辯. [BnF 4995. Jap-Sin II, 45.1]
AuthorVerbiest, Ferdinand 南懷仁, 1623-1688
Place---
Publisher---
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeBook (Text in Collection)
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ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberBX1665.A24 B526 2009 v.16
Descriptionv.16, p. 287-336
NoteIn: 法國國家圖書館明清天主教文獻. Chinese Christian texts from the National Library of France, v. 16.98. Ferdinand Verbiest 南懷仁. Wang tui jixiong bian 妄推吉凶辯 [4995]
Full textual citation see: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

JapSin II, 45.1
Wangtui jixiongbian 妄推吉凶辯.
By Nan Huairen 南懷仁 (Ferdinand Verbiest).
One juan, incomplete. Bamboo paper. Published in 1669 (Kangxi 8). No place of publication.

The cover of the book bears the Latin title: “Discussio contra vanitatem | divinationis | P. Verbiest.”
The table of contents consist of two and one-half folios. At the end of the book the date (1669) and the name of the author are given: 康熙八年己酉仲夏上浣,治理曆法遠西南懷仁識. There are nine columns in each half folio with twenty characters to each column. There are subject headings on the top margins. The title of the book is given in the middle of each folio and the number of the folio below the fish-tail.
This copy is incomplete; only twenty-four folios are left. Judging from the table of contents, less than half of the text is preserved. The book contains a refutation of divination and geomancy as explained by Yang Guangxian and his followers.

Cf. Courant 4995–4997 (Réfutation de Yang Kuang sien et des devins); Pfister, p. 353, no. 5 (slightly different title: Wangtui jixiong zhi bian 妄推吉凶之辯).
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, p. 347.

Wang ze bian 妄擇辯 [BnF 4993. Jap-Sin II, 45.3]
AuthorVerbiest, Ferdinand 南懷仁, 1623-1688
Place---
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CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeBook (Text in Collection)
Series
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberBX1665.A24 B526 2009 v.16
Descriptionv.16, p. 261-285.
NoteIn: 法國國家圖書館明清天主教文獻. Chinese Christian texts from the National Library of France, v.16. 97. Ferdinand Verbiest 南懷仁. Wang ze bian 妄擇辯 [4993].
Full bibliographic citation see: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

JapSin II, 45.3
Wang ze bian 妄擇辯.
By Nan Huairen 南懷仁 (Ferdinand Verbiest). Published in 1669. No place of publication. From the format and paper it seems that the book is an original edition.

The cover bears a label with a Latin inscription: “Refutatio persecutoris | Yam Quam sien circa electionem dierum | a p. Ferdin. Verbiest | S.J.”
Each half folio consists of nine columns with twenty characters to each column. Folio 1 has some annotations in small characters printed on the top margin. The title of the book is given in the middle of each folio and the number of the folio below the fish-tail. At the end of the book the date (1669) and the name of the author are given: 康熙八年己酉仲夏上浣治理曆法遠西南懷仁識. This book was written to refute Yang Guangxian and his followers on their false teaching on selection of lucky days. Neither Pfister (p. 353) nor Couplet (p. 42) mention the Wangzebian.

Cf. Courant 4993–4994 (Discussion du choix des jours fastes).
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, p. 348.

JapSin II, 45 D
Wang ze bian 妄擇辯.
By Nan Huairen 南懷仁 (Ferdinand Verbiest). One juan. Bamboo paper with a case.

The cover bears a label with the title and a Latin inscription: “Refutatio persecu | toris Yam Quam Sien circa electio | nem dierum | a.p. Ferd. Verbiest | S.J.”
This book is a duplicate of Jap-Sin II, 45.3. Both the format and the paper are the same.
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 348-349.
Wang zhan bian 妄占辯. [BnF 4998. Jap-Sin II, 45.2]
AuthorVerbiest, Ferdinand 南懷仁, 1623-1688
Place---
Publisher---
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeBook (Text in Collection)
Series
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberBX1665.A24 B526 2009 v.16
Descriptionv.16, p. 337-375
NoteIn: 法國國家圖書館明清天主教文獻. Chinese Christian texts from the National Library of France, v.16.99 Ferdinand Verbiest 南懷仁. Wang zhan bian 妄占辯 [4998].
Full textual citation see: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).

JapSin II, 45.2
Wangzhanbian 妄占辯.
By Nan Huairen 南懷仁 (Ferdinand Verbiest).
One juan. Bamboo paper. Dayuantang 大原堂 edition, Guangdong, 1669.

The Latin title given on the cover reads: “Refutatio persecuto | ris Yam Quam sien | circa vanas | observa | tiones et divinationes | a p. Ferdin. Verbiest | S.J.”
The table of contents consists of two folios. On the top of folio 1 the title of the book is given and below the name of the publisher: 粵東大原堂重梓 (blocks remade by the Dayuantang of Guangdong). There are nine columns in each half folio with twenty characters in each column. There are subject headings on the top margin. The title of the book is given in the middle of each folio and the number of the folio below the fish-tail. At the end of the book the date of publication (1669, fifth month, i.e., 30 May – 27 June) and the name of the author are given: 康熙八年己酉仲夏上浣治理曆法遠西南懷仁識. The main text consists of nineteen folios.
This book was written to refute Yang Guangxian, who had tried to employ astronomy as a means for divination by lot.

Cf. Courant 4998–5001 (Discussion contre les sorts).
Source: Albert Chan, S.J., Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 347-348.