Subject: Jesuits--Missions--China--History--17th-18th centuries--Russian sources

Notes on the Jesuits in China = Об Езуитах в Китае [Ob Yezuitakh v Kitaye. English & Russian]
AuthorAfinogenov, GregorySmorzhevskii, Feodosii (Theodosius) [Сморжевский Феодосий], ca.1712-1758
PlaceChestnut Hill, MA
PublisherInstitute of Jesuit Sources
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish, Russian-English
TypeBook, Digital Book (PDF)
SeriesSources for the history of Jesuit missions ; no. 2
ShelfHallway Cases, Digital Archives
Call NumberBV3417.S67 A5 2016 + dig.pdf.
Description116 p. ; 24 cm.
Note

Notes on the Jesuits in China = Об Езуитах в Китае / Hieromonk Feodosii Smorzhevskii = Иеромонах Феодосий Сморжевский ; translated and edited by Gregory Afinogenov.
Translated text facing pages in Cyrillic and English.
Includes bibliography (p.105-107) and index.

"The legendary Jesuit mission in China has been the subject of controversy for centuries. In the 1740s, the Russian hieromonk Feodosii Smorzhevskii encountered it firsthand. Published in English for the first time, this unique text marks the encounter between Russian Orthodox and Catholic missionaries in Beijing as each tried to navigate the labyrinthine world of the Qing imperial court. By turns critical and sympathetic, skeptical and conspiratorial, Smorzhevskii’s account is one of the only reports by an outside observer on the daily life and political tensions surrounding the eighteenth-century China Jesuit missionary enterprise."--p.[4] of cover.


Local access dig.pdf. [Afinogenov-Notes on Jesuits in China.pdf] (camera scan, searchable in Russian/English)

ISBN0997282320 ; 9780997282320