Leibniz and Confucianism, the search for accord / David E. Mungello.
Includes glossary of Chinese terms, bibliography (pp.[179]-185) and index (pp.[187]-200).
Keywords: Yijing 易經, figurism, Discourse on the natural philosphy of the Chinese, Monadology, Western humanism, liyi 禮儀, Chinese rites controversy, Neo-Confucianism.

In the closing years of the seventeenth century, one of the most brilliant of modern European philosophers became actively involved in the search for intellectual and spiritual accord between Europe and China. In his search, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz entered the “Rites Controversy” on the side of the Jesuits, who had achieved positions of remarkable proximity to the Chinese throne. Yet less than forty years later, the optimism of their cause had dummed. Leibniz died in isolation in Hanover, the papacy ruled against the Jesuits at Rome, and in China there was a growing distrust of the Christian missionaries by the monarchy. In contrast to past neglect of this subject as an intriguing but peripheral area of Leibniz’ philosophy, Leibniz and Confucianism: THe Search for Accord elevates Leibniz’ interest in China to a more central concern of Leibnizian Ism. Leibniz was deeply committed to an ecumenism that included not only the reunion of Roman and Protestant Christendom, but an ecumenism with which the spiritual and intellectual beliefs and practices of non-Westerners, especially the Chinese, could be reconciled. As an investigation into how that commitment was pursued and into some of the reasons why it failed, this book seeks to present Leibniz’ experience a both historical record and contemporary guide. Drawing upon unpublished material in the Leibniz archives in Hanover, Mungello traces the influences upon Leibniz through the Jesuit translators to the Chinese sources. In the process, we have the opportunity to observe the first historical instance of a major Western philosopher interpreting and reacting to Chinese (largely Neo-Confucian) philosophic notions and concepts. The author concludes by explaining how he believes Leibniz' search for accord can assist our own contemporary search for accord.

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CONTENTS
Preface. Paolo Santangelo. Chinese Printed Illustrations: Additional Notes on Materiality and on Material Authors of the Pipa ji and Xixiang ji Editions of the Ming Dynasty / Michela Bussotti. - Historicizing Ming-Ryukyu Relations: The Politics of Scholarship / Ying-Kit Chan. - From a Singing Bird to a Fighting Bug: Cricket-Fight and the Cultural Rhetorics in Late Imperial China / Hsiung Ping-Chen. - Essay on Giuseppe Maria Kuo’s Journal / Michele Fatica and Maria Letizia Pizzuti. - Intellectual or Emotional Knowledge? Values and Meanings of the Chinese Garden in the Ming Period / Maurizio Paolillo. - Liaozhai zhiyi and Zibuyu, Two Precious Qing Sources on Mentality and Imagery / Paolo Santangelo. - Karmic Retribution and Moral Didacticism in Erotic Fiction from the Late Ming and Early Qing / Wu Cuncun and Stevenson Mark. - Tianfang Dianli: A Chinese Perspective on Islamic Law and its Legal Reasoning / Tontini Roberta. - Praising and Blame: Evaluating Appellations in Song-Ming Historical Writings / Lee Cheuk Yin. - Emotions and Narrative: Depictions of Love in the Yuan Novella Jiao Hong ji and its Abridged Version in the Ming Anthology Qingshi leilüe / Barbara Bisetto. - Emotions in chengyu and other set phrases / Erhard Rosner.

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS
Notes on Variolation in Japan. Shutō hitsujun ben 種痘必順辨 (Variolation Ensures Gentle Smallpox, 1795) by Ogata Shunsaku 緒方春朔" / Paolo Villani - Korean Reaction to Matteo Ricci and Christianity: A Case of “Defensive Fundamentalism”? / Maurizio Riotto.

BOOK REVIEWS
Struve Lynn, “Dreaming and Self-search during the Ming Collapse: The Xue Xiemeng Biji, 1642-1646”, T’oung Pao 93, 2007, pp. 159-192, and Struve Lynn, “Self-Struggles of a Martyr: Memories, Dreams, and Obsessions in the Extant Diary of Huang Chuyao”, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 69, 2, 2009, pp. 343-394 / Paolo Santangelo. - Yu Anthony, Comparative Journeys. Essays on Literature and Religion East and West, New York: Columbia University Press, 2010, pp. 408 / Paolo Santangelo.

Contents: Economic and social foundations of late imperial culture / Evelyn S. Rawski -- Communication, class, and consciousness in late imperial China / David Johnson -- Specialists and written materials in the village world / James Hayes -- Distinguishing levels of audiences for Ming-Ch'ing vernacular literature / Robert E. Hegel -- Social and historical context of Ming-Ch'ing local drama / Tanaka Issei -- Regional operas and their audiences : evidence from Hong Kong / Barbara E. Ward -- Religion and popular culture : the management of moral capital in The Romance of the Three Teachings / Judith A. Berling -- Values in Chinese sectarian literature : Ming and Ch'ing Pao-chuan / Daniel L. Overmyer -- Transmission of White Lotus sectarianism in late imperial China / Susan Naquin -- Standardizing the gods : the promotion of T'ien Hou ("Empress of Heaven") along the South China coast, 960-1960 / James L. Watson -- Language and ideology in the written popularizations of the Sacred Edict / Victor H. Mair -- Beginnings of mass culture : journalism and fiction in the late Ch'ing and beyond / Leo Ou-fan Lee and Andrew J. Nathan -- Problems and prospects / Evelyn S. Rawski.
Keywords: Ming-Qing popular culture, literature, religion; filial piety; moral education; books and writing; Sheng Yu 聖諭 (Sacred Edict) ; vernacular literature, baojuan 寶卷 ; Tian Hou 天后, Mazu 媽祖 Temple, White Lotus sect ; opera, drama.

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