Author | Givon, Yuval 峰尤瓦 |
Place | Romae |
Publisher | Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu |
Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
Edition | |
Language | English |
Type | Extract (PDF) |
Series | |
Shelf | Digital Archives |
Call Number | DS753.2.G59 2019d |
Description | pdf. [pp 49-101 (54 p.)] |
Note | A tale of dynastic change in China : the Ming-Qing transition through Athanasius Kircher SJ’s China illustrata (1667) / Yuval Givon. Summary: However, a closer examination of Kircher’s sources — especially the first-hand accounts of events from fellow-Jesuits visiting Rome — reveals tensions, disagreements, and conflicting narratives that existed within the Jesuit China mission during the transition period and might have influenced the author. Kircher’s intellectual enterprise was always intertwined with his religious piety and promotion of the Society of Jesus. Thus, this essay proposes that his ‘mistakes’ can be seen as an attempt to reconcile contradictory voices among the Jesuit missionaries and to offer a unified narrative to European readers, reshaped to fit the author’s devout vision of history as well as the religio-political needs of the Society of Jesus and its China mission. Local access dig.pdf. [Givon-Kircher.pdf] |
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Author | Standaert, Nicolas 鐘鳴旦 |
Place | Leiden |
Publisher | Brill |
Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
Edition | |
Language | English, Chinese |
Type | Book |
Series | Leiden series in comparative historiography ; v. 9 |
Shelf | Hallway Cases |
Call Number | DS742.S73 2016 |
Description | vi, 367 pages ; 25 cm. |
Note | The intercultural weaving of historical texts : Chinese and European stories about Emperor Ku and his concubines / by Nicolas Standaert. "The European view on history was shaken to its foundations when missionaries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries discovered that Chinese history was older than European and Biblical history. With an analysis of the Chinese, Manchu and European sources on ancient Chinese history, this essay proposes an early case of “intercultural historiography,” in which historical texts of different cultures are interwoven. Part 1. Between Chinese and European Sources: Europeans Writing Chinese History in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 1. Comprehensive Histories in Late Ming and Early Qing and the Genealogy of the Gangjian 綱鑑 -- 2. Jesuit Accounts of Chinese History and Chronology and their Chinese Sources -- Part 2. Between Text and Commentaries: Europeans Reading Chinese History in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 3. Chinese Interpretations of Marvellous Births -- 4. Jesuit Interpretations of Marvellous Births. |
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ISBN | 9789004316157 ; 9004316159 |
LCCN | 2016008965 |
Author | Chen Min-sun |
Place | Chicago |
Publisher | --- |
Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
Edition | |
Language | English |
Type | Thesis/Dissertation (PDF) |
Series | |
Shelf | Digital Archives |
Call Number | DS754.C5477 1971d |
Description | dig.pdf. [iii, 250 leaves] |
Note | Three contemporary western sources on the history of the late Ming and the Manchu conquest of China / by Min-sun Chen. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of History, March 1971. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 243-250). Local access dig.pdf. [Chen-Three Contemporary Sources.pdf] |
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