Contents: Coming out of the Middle Ages: historical reflections on the late Ming to the late Qing -- The drama of "god-making" 360 years ago -- The Confucius of history and the history of Confucius -- Johann Adam Schall von Bell and Yang Guangxian -- Han learning and Western learning in the Eighteenth Century -- Yangming scholarship in early modern China -- A historical investigation into the early formation of the historical materialist viewpoint in China -- China's lost renaissance -- Appendix: The strange ideas of philosophers as one historical period supersedes another.

Keywords: Johann Adam Schall von Bell 湯若望, Yang Guangxian 楊光先, Kang Youwei 康有為, Neo-Confucianism , Historical materialism , May 4th movement, Hanxue 漢學.

Family, fields, and ancestors : constancy and change in China's social and economic history, 1550-1949 / Lloyd E. Eastman.

"This study synthesizes recent research on China's social and economic history, offering a perspective on the four centuries from the Ming Dynasty to the Communist revolution. Drawing on a wide array of sources, the author clarifies the complexities of Chinese society, covering a wide range of topics from population trends, class structure and religion to agriculture, commerce and manufacturing."

The great encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 / D.E. Mungello.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historical overview -- Chinese acceptance of western culture and Christianity -- Chinese rejection of western culture and Christianity -- European acceptance of Chinese culture and Confucianism -- European rejection of Chinese culture and Confucianism.

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"On the literati's attitude to Western learning in the early Qing dynasty : a case study on Dong Han (1626–?) and Notes in Three Hills" / Zhao Qinghe

This article belongs to the Special Issue of 

"Chinese Christianity: From Society to Culture," Religions 16 (2025)

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Abstract: 

After the arrival of Jesuits in China during the late Ming dynasty, they adopted a strategy of aligning Catholicism with Confucianism, referring to themselves as “Western Confucians” to gain sympathy and support from the Chinese literati. However, during the early Qing dynasty, particularly during the late Kangxi era, because of the resurgence of traditional Confucian ideology and the consolidation of Manchu rule, literati attitudes toward Catholicism shifted significantly. This paper uses the early Qing scholar Dong Han (董含, 1626–?) from the Songjiang region as a case study, with his Notes in Three Hills 三冈识略 as the primary textual source, to analyze his critiques of Western learning (including Catholicism and Western science). Additionally, it examines Catholic responses to these critiques, based on the manuscript Refute the False Accusation 辩诬 collected in the BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France). Through an analysis of Dong Han’s attitude toward Western learning and the responses it provoked, the paper aims to shed light on the changing attitudes of early Qing literati in the Jiangnan area toward Western learning, as well as the challenges faced by Catholicism in establishing their legitimacy in early modern China. It points out that the fundamental differences between Western learning and Confucianism prevented it from making an effective argument for legitimacy in China. The lack of support from the literati and the emperor led to the eventual fate of Catholicism—being prohibited

"State of the Field Report XV: Contemporary Chinese Studies of the Scholastic-Aristotelian Soul in Late-Ming and Early-Qing China" / Daniel Canaris.

Dao 2024

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The great encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 / D.E. Mungello.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Historical overview--2. Chinese acceptance of Western culture and Christianity: Jesuit accomodation, Jesuit conversions of the literati, Missionary antagonism with Chinese society, closing of Chinese minds (c. 1644), Chinese reaction to Christian paintings and engravings--3. Chinese rejection of Western culture and Christianity: basis of anti-Christian feeling in China, anti-Christian movements, European art at the Chinese court, among the Chinese literati-painters--4. European acceptance of Chinese culture and Confucianism: Chinese rites controversy, proto-Sinologists, Leibniz, Bouvet and Figurism, European view of the literati tradition, Confucianism versus Neo-Confucianism, influence of Chinese art upon European artists--5. European rejection of Chinese culture and Confucianism: China popularizers in Europe, Enlightenment idealization of Chinese moral and political system, differing views of polyhistors and philosophes, from white to yellow, Macartney mission (1792-1794).

Second copy in ASCC stacks (DS750.72.M86 1999 c.2).

Originally published by Yale University Press in 1917.

The spirit and the flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785 / Mungello, D.E.

"The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong tells the deeply human story of the introduction of Christianity to a provincial region in China where European missionaries shared the poverty and isolation of their Chinese flocks. Their close personal relationships led to intellectual and pastoral collaboration, suppression, an underground church, imprisonment, apostasy, and martyrdom as well as peasant secret society affiliations, self-flagellation, and sexual seduction. In the remote villages of this region, the missionaries and their converts lived out their pious aspirations and eternal damnations under a darkening sky of growing anti-Christian policies from the capital."

Two copies in ASCC stacks.

Xixue yu Qingdai wenhua 西學與清代文化 / Huang Aiping, Huang Xingtao zhubian 黃愛平, 黃興濤主編.
Proceeding of the conference Xixue yu Qingdai wenhua guoji xueshu yantaohui 西學與清代文化國際學術研討會 (August 2006 : Beijing).
Includes bibliographical references.

第一編. 中西互視及其研究反思
清中前期國人對法國的認知 / 李華川. 兩個法國人三個中國人與18世紀法國兩種中國觀的形成 / 王憲明. 西學與清代中國形象的變遷片論 / 王日根. 18世紀西人眼中的康乾盛世 / 何瑜,柳岳武. 晚清中體西用論的再思考 / 王先明, 張海榮. 莊存與復興今文經學起因於與和坤對立說辨析: 兼論對海外中國學研究成果的吸收與借鑒 / 王俊義. 近代觀與西學觀 : 魏源研究的多元面向與反思 / 李紀祥. 十八世紀中國的現代性建構 : 中國中心觀主導下的清史研究反思 / 夏明方. 從嶺南檔案(1888-1952)沉思中美文化相遇 / 王棟著, 羅興連譯, 劉賢校.
第二編傳教士與宗教問題:傳教與禁教
方濟各會石鋒祿神父《初會問答》魚議 / 崔維孝. 清代早期中俄交涉與在華耶穌會教士 / 曹雯. 劉松齡及新發現史料的價值 / 高王凌. 康熙1692年寬容敷令與浙江 / 龔縷晏, 陳雪軍. 從清代檔案看雍正乾隆時期福建地區傳教與禁教 / 黃愛平.
作為他者的洋教 : 關於基督教與晚清社會關係的再闡釋 / 孫江. 西學初傳朝鮮 : 在華西方傳教士與朝鮮燕行使臣交往的歷史考察 / 楊雨蕾. 西方人對中國開封猶太人的調查始末 / 耿弄. 從再造到沒落 : 開封猶太教會堂在明清兩朝的歷史(1644-1860) / 查時傑.
第三編西學傳播與清代主流學術.
十七世紀東亞新知識體系的建立 : 徐光啟《海防迂說》及與陸若漢之關係 / 李天綱. 從新出版的清宮檔案看乾隆年間的西學東漸 / 吳伯婭. 先入之見與自以為是 : 清前期來華傳教士對程朱理學的跨文化詮釋 / 張昭軍. 西學與錢大昕的經史之學 / 王記錄. 從《漢學師承記》看西學對乾嘉考據學的影響 / 漆永祥. 清代初中期西學影響經學問題研究述評 / 湛曉白, 黃興濤. 西學視角下的戴震義理學 : 以章太炎, 劉師培, 梁啟超. 胡適對戴震義理學的解說為核心 / 李帆. 康有為《孟子微》發微 : 兼論以西學補充印證 / 汪學群.
晚清西方傳教士對儒學的認識 / 俞祖華, 胡瑞琴. 清代西方美學觀念和知識在華傳播考論 / 黃興濤. 謝衛樓與晚清西學輸入 / 吳義雄. 以史證教與以史駁教 : 清初天主教傳播與史學 / 闕紅柳. 多明我會傳教士利勝與清初華南地方史 / 張先清. 19世紀西方之新疆研究的興起及其與清代西北史地學的關聯 / 賈建飛. 泰西新史攬要 : 世紀史的新內容與新形式 / 鄒振環. 耶穌會在亞洲(Jesuítas na Ásia) : 檔案文獻與清史研究 / 張西平. 英國國家檔案館度藏近代中文輿圖的價值 / 華林甫.
第四編科學藝術的發展與西學.
歐洲天文學在清代社會中的影響 / 江曉原. 從清代無窮級數發展的歷程看西學的影響 / 羅見今. 清朝前期西洋鐘錶的仿製與生產 / 湯開建黃春艷. 王徽與丁若鋪 : 16至18世紀中韓兩位實學家對西洋奇器的研究與製造 / 牛潤珍, 安允兒. 西津銅版畫在清宮廷的流傳及其影響 / 沈定平. 十三行貿易與清中期廣製藝術品 / 劉路郭蕾. 西樂與清樂 : 西學與中國文化關係一個有機組成部分 / 鄭錦揚. 晚清衛生概念演變探略 / 餘新忠. 傳教士與近代西方外科學的傳入 : 以合信的《西醫略論》為例 / 張大慶. 清末陳垣醫學文章敘論 / 劉賢.
第五編西學與中國文化的近代化
清代以來海外留學的歷史及其意義 / 戴逸. 從明清天主教文獻看中國近現代理性思維方式的生成 / 王曉朝. 嚴復與近代學科 / 王天根. 採西學學科次第之論辯及其意義 : 略論晚清對西學門徑的探討/章清.
理解的困難與表達的偏差 : 晚清中國對美國總統制的解讀 / 熊月之. 近代西方財政理論在清末中國的傳播及影響 / 馬金華. 西方文化與十九世紀後期中國文化精英的婚姻觀 / 梁景和. 西學搖籃 : 清季香港雙語精英的誕生 / 李金強. 澳門土生葡人與中國近代外文報刊 / 李長森. 清末孫中山革命思想的西學淵源 : 上海孫中山故居西文藏書的一項審察 / 姜義華. 政治美德與國民共同體 : 梁啟超自由民族主義思想研究 / 許紀霖. 牆內開花牆外香 : 晚清漢澤西書在日本的傳播 / 王曉秋. 清末西學與明治日本 : 早期社會主義再考 / 川屁文彥(KAWAJIRI Fumihiko).

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Zai Zhongguo faxian Xixue : Mingmo Qingchu sixiang wenhua de shijie beijing 在中國發現西學：明末清初思想文化的世界背景 / Chen Tuo 陳拓

參考書目: 289-329

第一章君師之間:晚明思想場中的歐洲教宗制--第二章,文獻層累與形象塑造:晚明首輔葉向高的西學面孔--第三章,教外螢友:晚明內閣閣臣鄭以偉與西學--第四章,女仙與聖徒:明代曇陽子、張識的神蹟故事--第五章,"天下爭傳浙奇士":馮文昌、祝石的人際網絡與書籍世界--第六章,清初祝石、王宏翰的中西醫匯通--第七章,從《七克》看世界背景下的明清書籍史。

本書圍繞著思想的"三世",一方面置中國於世界,還原明末清初思想文化的世界背景;另一方面置西學於中國,從中國知識、思想與信仰的內在理路出發,窺探西學在中國乃至東亞的本土脈絡。全書分為七章:第一章探討教宗製作為一種政治制度在中國的理解與詮釋過程,它是中西首次實質的政治思想互動。第二至三章利用教內、教外文獻互證,剖析葉向高、鄭以偉等上層士人與傳教士之間的思想異同。第四章結合曇陽子、張識兩位早逝青年的神蹟故事,嘗試進入信仰的深層,重構他們的生命體驗與思想世界。第五至六章以祝石、馮文昌、王宏翰等中下層文人為中心,圍繞人際網絡、書籍世界與西洋醫學,分析西學在地方社會的存在方式與知識形態。第七章以《七克》為個案,考察西學書籍在東亞的出版、傳播與閱讀,探索溝通中西書籍史的新路徑-- 錄自封底