Cover: Magnified section of the etching “The Raising of the Siege at the Black River (1758)” which is reproduced in full on pages 28-29. The etching is made from a drawing by the Jesuit painter G. Castiglione. (See Hao Zhenhua article).
K. Lundbaek: Liu Ning 劉凝 (Er Zhi [Erzhi 二至]), a Chinese Christian author of the 17th-18th century. -- N. Standaert: The Jesuit presence in China (1580-1773): a statistical approach. -- Hao Zhenhua 郝鎮華: Lang Shining Zhongguo Xiyuzhantu de shishi ji yiyi 郎世寧中國西域戰圖的史實及意義 (The Historical Circumstances and Significance of Castiglione’s War Paintings of the Qianlong emperor’s Campaign against the Dzungars in the Northwestern Border Region). -- L. Pfister: Some new dimensions in the study of the works of James Legge (1815-1897) - Part II. -- In memoriam: Giorgio Melis. -- New Publications: Coming Out of the Middle Ages, by Zhu Weizheng. Reviewer: Thomas H.. Lee. -- Philippe Couplet, S.J. (1623-1693): the Man Who Brougy China to Europe, ed. Jerome Heyndrickx. Reviewer: Min-sin Chen. Leibniz Korrespondiert mit China: der Briefwechsel des Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz mit Chinamissionaren, 1689-1714), ed. Rita Widmaier. Only the Beginning: the Passionsists in China, 1921-1931, by Caspar Caulfield. -- Rawlinson, the Recorder, and China’s Revolution, by John Lang Rawlinson. Reviewer: D.E. Mungello.
Dates uncertain for Liu Ning: Liu Ning 劉凝, ca. 1658-1738 (Lundbaek); 17th cent. (LC); ca. 1625-ca. 1715 (Standaert, Handbook). [suigong 歲貢, i.e. 貢生 1677]

This article analyses two databases with information on traveling Jesuit missionaries to calculate the human cost of connecting Europe and China between 1500 and 1800. After combining analysis of these statistics with travel accounts, the article argues that when missionaries did not arrive at their intended destination, it was more often the case that they had been redirected than that they had died en route. Particular groups and individual Jesuits were redirected as a result of political fissures within the global Jesuit network. Since Jesuit missionaries held allegiances to competing state patrons based on their national background, their travel patterns were altered significantly either by choice or by force.
Keywords: Jesuit travel, Jesuit networks, national strife within the Society of Jesus, Jesuit finances, procurators.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 502-504)
Local access dig.pdf [Vermote-Jesuit Networks.pdf]

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