Curious land : Jesuit accommodation and the origins of Sinology / D.E. Mungello.
Bibliography: p. 369-379.
Includes index.
Inscribed by author.
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L'Occidente fu sempre attratto dalla Cina, ma la mitica "Terra di Mezzo" rimase un mondo sconosciuto, favoloso e irraggiungibile fino all'inizio del Seicento, quando il gesuita Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) penetrò in quell'immenso Paese, facendo conoscere alla Cina la civiltà europea. Fu un altro grande gesuita a compiere l'operazione inversa, rivelando all'Europa il volto della Cina: il trentino Martino Martini (1614-1661). Questo libro vuol essere un contributo alla conoscenza di un uomo straordinario per fede, scienza, capacità oratoria, coraggio fisico, abilità diplomatica e doti d'iniziativa. Visse solo 47 anni, di cui una dozzina passati sul mare o segregato in luoghi remoti e inospitali, ma, oltre a svolgere la sua missione evangelizzatrice in Cina, riuscì a raccogliere sul Celeste Impero una mole immensa di materiale, esponendola in alcune opere che ebbero in Europa vastissima risonanza. Tra queste un Atlante della Cina di ricchezza e precisione eccezionali. Sullo sfondo, il Seicento europeo mette in scena i suoi fasti e le sue miserie: secolo abietto e sontuoso, percorso dai fremiti del nuovo e dai sussulti del vecchio, che si apre alle innovazioni scientifiche più ardite e si accanisce nella cruenta repressione degli slanci riformatori, tra guerre interminabili, pestilenze e devastazioni, ma anche una straordinaria fioritura artistica e culturale.

Dall'altra parte del mondo, in Cina, il Seicento fu altrettanto contraddittorio: insanguinato dalla feroce guerra di successione tra la vecchia dinastia dei Ming e la nuova dei Ching, fu tuttavia un'epoca di grande rinnovamento della civiltà cinese, che sfociò in un singolare amalgama di cultura letteraria, saggezza amministrativa, ritualità e credenze popolari, senza contare le millenarie tradizioni scientifiche e tecniche su cui si innestarono le grandi innovazioni matematiche, astronomiche e cartografiche europee, introdotte dai gesuiti insieme con la pratica evangelizzatrice. Protagonista di questo fecondo incontro di civiltà e di tradizioni, propugnatore di una prassi missionaria tollerante, rispettoso della sensibilità e delle consuetudini di quel popolo così fiero e civile, Martino Martini seppe interpretare il proprio apostolato con saggezza ed equilibrio, ma anche con rigore e disciplina. Nominato mandarino, esercitò la carica con dignità e decoro, al punto di diventare cinese egli stesso, per lingua, costumi e abiti, pur senza rinunciare in nulla alla sua fede.

DOI 10.1007/978-88-470-1533-3
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Global entanglements of a man who never traveled : a seventeenth-century Chinese Christian and his conflicted worlds / Dominic Sachsenmaier.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: situating Zhu Zongyuan -- A local life and its global contexts -- A globalizing organization and Chinese Christian life -- A teaching shaped by constraints -- Of foreign learnings and Confucian ways -- European origins on trial -- Epilogue: the global standing of a man who never traveled.

Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province. Yet Zhu nonetheless led a remarkably globally connected life. His relations with the outside world, ranging from scholarly activities to involvement with globalizing Catholicism, put him in contact with a complex and contradictory set of foreign and domestic forces. In Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled, Dominic Sachsenmaier explores the mid-seventeenth-century world and the worldwide flows of ideas through the lens of Zhu's life, combining the local, regional, and global. Taking particular aspects of Zhu's multiple belongings as a starting point, Sachsenmaier analyzes the contexts that framed his worlds as he balanced a local life and his border-crossing faith. At the local level, the book pays attention to the intellectual, political, and social environments of late Ming and early Qing society, including Confucian learning and the Manchu conquest, questioning the role of ethnic and religious identities. At the global level, it considers how individuals like Zhu were situated within the history of organizations and power structures such as the Catholic Church and early modern empires amid larger transformations and encounters. A strikingly original work, this book is a major contribution to East Asian, transnational, and global history, with important implications for historical approaches and methodologies.

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Root and branch: the place of the Portuguese Jesuits in the early modern China missions / Liam Matthew Brockey -- Tomás Pereira and the Jesuits of the court of the Kangxi Emperor / Paul Rule -- Father Tomás Pereira, SJ, the Kangxi Emperor and the Court Westerners / Ku Weiying -- The image of Tomás Pereira in Qing Dynasty documents / Zhang Xianqing -- From the earthly court to the heavenly court: the death and funeral of Tomás Pereira / Claudia von Collani -- The last imperial honours: from Tomás Pereira to the Eulogium Europeorum Doctorum in 1711 / António Vasconcelos de Saldanha -- 'Amicíssimos', Tomás Pereira and Zhao Chang / Jin Guoping -- The Fô and the Xekiâ: Tomás Pereira's critical description of Chinese Buddhism / Rui Magone -- Ubi dux, ibi curia: Kangxi's imperial hunts and the Jesuits as courtiers / Eugenio Menegon -- 'Riding a crane she ascended to the distant realms': the last memorial (27 January 1688) of Ferdinand Verbiest / Ad Dudink -- The 'Edict of Tolerance': a textual history and reading / Nicolas Standaert -- Tomás Pereira's appeal to the Portuguese Jesuits and missionary recruitment to China / Tereza Sena -- Ferdinand Verbiest's letter of 1678 to King Afonso VI of Portugal and the possible role of Tomás Pereira in its conception / Noël Golvers -- Defending European astronomy in China...against Europe: Tomás Pereira and the Directorate of Astronomy in 1688 / Antonella Romano -- Resolution of some questions about Tomás Pereira's arrival in Beijing and service at the Directorate of Astronomy / Shi Yumin -- Seventeenth-century Jesuit surveys for a secure overland route from Europe to China / Francisco Roque de Oliveira -- The Jesuits at Nerchinsk: language, war, and ethnicity / Peter Perdue -- Tomás Pereira at the Nerchinsk conference / Vladimir Stepanovich Myasnikov -- Tomás Pereira, Jing Tian and Nerchinsk: evolving world-view during the Kangxi period / João de Deus Ramos -- Mission by music: the challenge of translating European music into Chinese in the Lülü Zuanyao / Gerlinde Gild -- The organist and organ builder Tomás Pereira: some new data on his activity / João Paulo Janeiro.

Introduction: Globalization, localization, and cultural resilience -- Mapping a contact zone -- Divergent discourses on the physical earth in premodern China -- The introduction and refashioning of the terraqueous globe -- Translating the four seas across space and time -- Taking in a new world -- Conclusion: Jesuit science and the shape of Chinese early modernity.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-414) and index.

"In Making the New World Their Own, Qiong Zhang offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars in the late Ming and early Qing came to understand that the Earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with Matteo Ricci, Giulio Aleni and other Jesuits. These encounters formed a fascinating chapter in the early modern global integration of space. It unfolded as a series of mutually constitutive and competing scholarly discourses that reverberated in fields from cosmology, cartography and world geography to classical studies. Zhang demonstrates how scholars such as Xiong Mingyu, Fang Yizhi, Jie Xuan, Gu Yanwu, and Hu Wei appropriated Jesuit ideas to rediscover China's place in the world and reconstitute their classical tradition"--Provided by publisher.
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Qiyi de guodu : Yesuhuishi yingzhengce ji Hanxue de qiyuan 奇異的國度 : 耶穌會適應政策及漢學的起源 / Meng Dewei zhu ; Chen Yi yi 孟德衛著; 陳怡譯.
Translation of: Curious land : Jesuit accommodation and the origins of sinology / D. E. Mungello ; Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1989.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-440) and index.

Relação da grande monarquia da China / Álvaro Semedo ; traduzido do italiano por Luís Gonzaga Gomes.
Originally published under title: Imperio de la China.
"Na presente edição utilizou-se o texto da edição de 1956 de Notícias de Macau, hoje completamente esgotada (2 vol.)"--T.p. verso.
Primeira parte. Do estado temporal da China. Segunda parte. Na qual se trata da Christandade da China.
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Library copy imperfect. Lacks title page and engraved frontispiece (portrait of Semedo in Chinese costume).
Translation of: Relação da propagação da fe no reyno da China e outros adjacentes. Translated by G.B. Giattini, S.J.
Backer-Sommervogel, vol. 3, col. 1395, no. 11 (1653 edition?)
OCLC number is for 1653 ed. titled: Historica relatione del gran regno della Cina ...divisa in due parti. Nella prima si tratta del regno in comune. Delle prouincie in particolare. Delle persone Cinesi. Del modo vestire ... Nella seconda, dell'origine della predicatione euangelica, con tutti li successi sino alli tempi nostri / del p. Alvaro Semedo Portoghese della Compagnia di Giesv.