Ancestors, virgins & friars : Christianity as a local religion in late Imperial China / Eugenio Menegon.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-426) and index.

• Maps and Figures
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Introduction: “Truly Unfathomable”?
• 1. Fuan Literati, Jesuits, and Spanish Friars
• 2. Becoming Local: Conflict with Gods and Ancestors, 1634–1645
• 3. The Golden Age of Opportunity, 1645–1723
• 4. Suppression and Persistence, 1723–1840s
• 5. The Christians of Fuan
• 6. Christian Religious Fellowship in Mindong: Priests, Rituals, and Lay Institutions
• 7. Filial Piety, Ancestral Rituals, and Salvation
• 8. Virginity, Chastity, and Sex
• Conclusion—Ruptures: Fuan After the Opium Wars
• Notes on Sources
• Bibliography
• Index

Christianity is often praised as an agent of Chinese modernization or damned as a form of cultural and religious imperialism. In both cases, Christianity’s foreignness and the social isolation of converts have dominated this debate. Eugenio Menegon uncovers another story. In the sixteenth century, European missionaries brought a foreign and global religion to China. Converts then transformed this new religion into a local one over the course of the next three centuries.

Focusing on the still-active Catholic communities of Fuan county in northeast Fujian, this project addresses three main questions. Why did people convert? How did converts and missionaries transform a global and foreign religion into a local religion? What does Christianity’s localization in Fuan tell us about the relationship between late imperial Chinese society and religion?

Based on an impressive array of sources from Asia and Europe, this pathbreaking book reframes our understanding of Christian missions in Chinese-Western relations. The study’s implications extend beyond the issue of Christianity in China to the wider fields of religious and social history and the early modern history of global intercultural relations. The book suggests that Christianity became part of a preexisting pluralistic, local religious space, and argues that we have so far underestimated late imperial society’s tolerance for “heterodoxy.” The view from Fuan offers an original account of how a locality created its own religious culture in Ming-Qing China within a context both global and local, and illuminates the historical dynamics contributing to the remarkable growth of Christian communities in present-day China.

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t. 1. Relation de M. le cardinal de Tournon, patriarche d'Antioche, visiteur apostolique; avec pouvoir legat à latere à la Chine, écrite par liu-même. -- t. 2. Diverses pieces, de M. le cardinal de Tournon, écrites & envoyées à Rome par lui-même. -- t. 3. 1. ptie. L'histoire des superstitions des Malabares. 2. ptie. Ce qui s'est passe à Rome & à la Chine au sujet des idolâtries chinoises, depuis la mort de M. le cardinal de Tournon, jusquà la légation de M. de Mezzabarba. -- t. 4. Le journal de monseigneur Charles Ambroise de Mezzabarba. Pieces qui ont rapport au présent journal. Remarques d'un missionaire sur le journal précédent. Relation de la prison de Monsieur Pedrini. -- t. 5. Suites de la légation de M. de Mezzabarba. -- t. 6. Le memorial du R.P. Michel-Ange Tambourin, & sa soumission au Pape. -- t. 7. Les decisions de la S. Congregation de la Propagande sous le Pontificat d'Innocent XI. Actes des congregations tenues a Rome, au sujet des missions des Indes Orientales.

JapSin I, (38/42) 40/9b
Chuyan 蒭言.
By He xianggong 何相公.
Manuscript, folios 123–130.
Chinese bamboo paper, one volume. 24.5 x 14.5 cm.

On folio 121 there is a Portuguese inscription: “Sobre controversias.” Folio 123 bears the title and another Portuguese inscription: “Este Tratado he do Ho Siam Cum Christião de Fo kien Kiu gin que da Corte o deo à o P. Gabiani V. Prl.”

Source: Albert Chan, SJ, Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 58-59.

Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise : enrichie des cartes générales et particulieres de ces pays, de la carte générale et des cartes particulieres du Thibet, & de la Corée; & ornée d'un grand nombre de figures & de vignettes gravées en tailledouce / Par le P.J.B. Du Halde ... Avec un avertissement préliminaire, oú l'on rend compte des principales améliorations qui ont été faites dans cette nouv. éd.
The maps to accompany this work are to be found in J.B.B. d'Anville's Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Thibet. La Haye, 1737. cf. Henri Cordier, Dict. bibl. des ouvrages relatifs à l'Empire chinois, 1881, t. ℓ. p. 31.

The Ricci Institute's copy of this important text is from the Bibliotheca Major Zi-Ka-Wei in Fr. F. Rouleau's collection. There are several online venues, studies and researches on this title.
See: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).
See also: ECHO.
See also: Phenix.

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Online: Gallica.
Online: Google Books t.1-3.
Online: Google Books t.4.

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The world of Liu Zhi -- Chinese Muslim tradition and Liu Zhi's legacy -- Liu Zhi's concepts and terminology -- Ritual as an expression of Chinese-Islamic simultaneity -- The spirit of ritual and the letter of the law -- Allah's Chinese name.

Islam first arrived in China over 1,200 years ago, but for more than a millennium it was perceived as a foreign presence. The restoration of native Chinese rule by the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). after nearly a century of Mongol domination, helped transform Chinese intellectual discourse on ideological, social, political, religious, and ethnic identity. This led to the creation of a burgeoning network of Sinicized Muslim scholars who wrote about Islam in classical Chinese and developed a body of literature known as the Han Kitāb. Rectifying God's Name examines the life and work of one of the most important of the Qing Chinese Muslim literati, Liu Zhi (ca. 1660--ca. 1730), and places his writings in their historical, cultural, social, and religio-philosophical contexts. His Tianfang dianli (Ritual law of Islam) represents the must systematic and sophisticated attempt within the Han Kitāb corpus to harmonize Islam with Chinese thought.--Book jacket.

The volume begins by situating Liu Zhi in the historical development of the Chinese Muslim intellectual tradition, examining his sources and influences as well as his legacy. Delving into the contents of Liu Zhi's work, it focuses on his use of specific Chinese terms and concepts, their origins and inclining in Chinese thought, and their correspondence to Islamic principles. A close examination of the Tianfang dianli reveals Liu Zhi's specific usage of the concept of ritual as a common foundation of both Confucian morality and social order and Islamic piety. The challenge of expressing such concepts in a context devoid of any clear monotheistic principle tested the limits of his scholarship and linguistic finesse. Lin Zhi's theological discussion in the Tianfang dianli engages not only the ancient Confucian tradition, but also Daoism, Buddhism, and even non-Chinese traditions. His methodology reveals an erudite and cosmopolitan scholar who synthesized diverse influences, from Sufism to Neo-Confucianism, and possibly even Jesuit and Jewish sources, into a body of work that was both steeped in tradition and, yet, exceedingly original, epitomizing the phenomenon of Chinese Muslim simultaneity.--Book jacket.

Library device : Bibl. Major. [ZiKaWei] L 32
Flyleaf title: Anciens traitez de divers auteurs sur les ceremonies de la Chine.
Keywords : Shangdi ; missions ; Chinese classics, Ricci, Ru, Dao, Macao, Caravallo, Viera, Pantoia, Gui, Shen, spirits, natural and native Chinese religions ; Wen Wang, Zhou Gong, Li, Taiji, ritual.

Bound with: Trait sur quelques points importans de la religion des Chinois. Paris : L. Guerin, M.DCCI. (1701)

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Flyleaf title: Anciens traitez de divers auteurs sur les ceremonies de la Chine.
Library device : Bibl. Major. [ZiKaWei 徐家匯] L 32
Keywords : Confucius and Confucianism ; Shandong, Beijing ; Tiandao ; Gouvea, Shangdi (Xiangti), names for God. Adressé au R.P. Louis de Gama, Jesuite, Visiteur des Provinces de la Chine & du Japon. Et envoyé à N.S. Pere le Pope & aux Em. Cardinaux qui regardent la propagation de la Foy.
Traduit de la Espagñol.

Bound with : Traité sur quelques points de la religion des Chinois. Paris : L. Guerin, M.DCCI

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Title in red and black.
This work was to consist of three volumes. The 2d vol, printed complete Madrid 1679, is supposed to have been suppressed by the Spanish inquisition. A copy without t.p., containing p. 1-668, is described in the Bibliotheca grenvilliana, p. 484. Another copy, in the same incomplete condition, quoted by Quaritch under no 61 of his Rough list no. 24, is now in the possession of H. Cordier. The 3d vol. was never published. cf. Cordier, Bibliotheca sinica, 2d ed., Paris, 1904; and Medina, Bibl. hisp. americana.

Tratado I. Del origen, nombre, sitio, grandezas, riquezas, y singularidades de la gran China.--tratado II. Del modo, y disposicion del govierno del Chino, de sus sectas, y de las cosas mas memorables de su historia.--tratado III. Escriuense algunas sentencias politicas, y morales del filosofo Kung Fu Zu.--tratado IV. Del libro Ming, Sin, Pao, Kien, esto es, Espejo prècioso del alma.--tratado V. De la secta literaria.--tratado VI. De los viages, y navegaciones, que el autor deste libro ha hecho.--tratado VII. Qvaesita missionariorvm Chinae, sev Sinarvm Sacrae congregationi de propaganda fide exhibita. Cvm responsis ad ea: decreto eiusdem Sacrae congregationis approbatis.