Atlante della Cina di Michele Ruggieri 羅明堅, S.J. (1543-1607)

"Born in Spinazzola in Puglia (Italy), Ruggieri entered the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-nine after holding official posts under Philip II, King of Naples. He was assigned to the Eastern missions and arrived in Goa on September 13, 1578. (Matteo Ricci was a fellow passenger). In July 1579 he arrived in Macau to implement the revolutionary missiological policy inaugurated by Alessandro Valignano 範禮安, S.J. (1538-1606). In 1583, after establishing friendly contacts with Chinese officials in Guangdong Province he was granted permission to build a church and residence at Zhaoqing 肇慶. In September of 1583 Ruggieri and Ricci took up residence there, establishing the first post-medieval Christian mission in China.
Like Ricci and other pioneers of the Jesuit China mission, Ruggieri was accomplished in many areas, and cartographic and linguistic skills were deemed particularly important. On Ruggieri's map (c. 1609) can be seen detailed information on terrain, cities, and waterways. Learning the Chinese language was not restricted to local dialects but also to learning guanhua 官話, the official language known in Western countries as Mandarin. Dictionaries and lexicons were created and the first semi-standard romanizations for Chinese characters were created (based on Portuguese letter values: see the Portuguese-Chinese Dictionary in this display). Published letters describing Chinese civilization sent by Ricci, Ruggieri, and others to Europe were highly popular and avidly studied by historians and philosophers."--Display placard text.

"The first Chinese Christian to come to Europe seems to have been Zheng Weixin 鄭維信 (1633-1673, a native of Macao), also called Manuel de Siqueira (Sequeira). He accompanied Alexandre de Rhodes (1593-1660). They departed from Macao in 1645 and in 1649 arrived in Rome, where Zheng entered the Jesuit Order in 1651. He was ordained priest in Coimbra in 1664 and left for China in 1666, where he arrived in 1668 only to live five more years ..." Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, p. 449.

Publishers note--This book reconstructs the life of a Jesuit missionary in a small inland residence in China (Ch'ang-shu, Chiang-nan Province), primarily but not exclusively on the basis of the evidence of a newly (re)discovered private Account Book covering the period from October 1674 to April/May 1676. This 'pocket' note book mainly represents the missionary's private expenses, and, to a much lesser extent, the revenues he received. As such it is an exceptional document in the missionary documentation. Absolutely unique is the part concerning his personal 'spiritual' exercises, his successes as well as failings in that field. After a lengthy introduction, in which both the life of the author and the complex composition of the Account Book are reconstructed, the text is presented, in a bilingual Latin - English edition. In seven chapters the contents are further described and analysed from various angles: the general topographical setting; the author's ten journeys through the region in 1674-1676; the social contacts referred to; the various aspects of priestly and pastoral life; the means of propagation, written as well as pictorial; the material culture of the mission; the financial structure of the whole undertaking, including the patterns of expenditure revealed. All the evidence available in this Account Book is combined with other contemporary information, mainly from unpublished sources, including a large number of quotations from the lost Couplet - Rougemont correspondence that has survived in Estrix's Elogium F. de Rougemont (1690), the text of which is also published here for the first time. Thus the Account Book assumes its place as an exceptional private document with a major relevance for the reconstruction of missionary life in China.

Contents: Introduction - 1. Biography of F. de Rougemont, S.J. - 2. The manuscript of the Account Book - 3. General appreciation of the Account Book c.s. as an historical source - 4. Appendix: conspectus litterarum/de Rougemonts correspondence - Text and translation – Commentaries
1. The topographical setting of the Account Book: The Christian topography of de Rougemont's 'parish' - 2. De Rougemonts movements inside his mission - 3. Social life: De Rougemont in Chines Society - 4. Priestly life - 5. The means of propagation and propaganda - 6. The material culture in the mission - 7. The finances of the mission.

Includes chapters on Dentrecolles' arrival in China, his role as Superior General of the French Mission, 1707-1719; with Fr. Foucquet; troubles with Pedrini; visit of the Second Pontifical Legate; the death of Kangxi and the enthronement of Yongzheng; with the Ambassador of the King of Portugal; persecution and death. As a translator and transmitter of Chinese classics and histories; descriptions of money; technical matters such as manufacture and production of porcelain, silk, artificial flowers, pearls, Chinese medicine, ginseng, tea, botany, bamboo.

Vol. [1]. in English, provides background history of the old Jesuit China mission and principal characters. Vol. [2]. Appendix, chiefly in Chinese, reproduces the 120 tombstones with Chinese text. Many of the images are taken from the Departed, yet Present volumes and other Ricci Institute sources.

“本書通過追憶保存在北京行政學院內的外國傳教士墓地(又名滕公柵欄墓地)的古往今昔,記敘了外國傳教士17-18世紀在華歷史,以及傳教士墓地的滄桑變化.明末至清中期,以利瑪竇為先驅的來華傳教士為中西兩大文明的交流架起了一座橋樑,他們為中國留下了"時憲歷",象限儀,"皇輿御覽圖"和'西洋樓'等不朽的作品,給中國的文化史和科學史帶來了持續,廣泛,甚至是里程碑式的影響"--Publisher note from 2011 Chinese edition.

New edition of 1933 original includes the biographical entry "Tang Ruowang 湯若望" from the Qingshigao 清史稿, with bibliographical essay by Claudia von Collani.

Matteo Ricci : a Jesuit in the Ming Court / Michela Fontana.
Translation of: Matteo Ricci : un gesuita alla corte dei Ming / Michela Fontana. -- Milano : Mondadori, c2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local access dig.pdf. [Michela Fontana-Matteo Ricci.pdf]

The background of Matteo Ricci: the shaping of his intellectual and scientific endowment. Matteo Ricci’s ascent to Beijing / Gianni Criveller -– The portrait of Matteo Ricci. Matteo Ricci, the Nantang Church, and the introduction of Roman Catholic Church architecture to Beijing / César Guillén Nuñez.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
See Publisher information.

Qingchu Yesuhuishi Lu Riman : Changshu zhangben ji lingxiu biji yanjiu 清初耶穌會​​士魯日滿 : 常熟帳本及靈修筆記研究 = François de Rougemont, S.J., Missionary in Ch'ang-shu (Chiang-nan) : A Study of the Account Book (1674-1676) and the Elogium / by Noël Golvers 高華士, Ad Dudink 杜鼎克, and François de Rougemont 魯日滿, 1624-1676 ; translated by Zhao Dianhong 趙殿紅, revised (審校) by Liu Yimin 劉益民.

Translation of François de Rougemont, S.J., missionary in Ch'ang-shu (Chiang-nan) : a study of the account book (1674-1676) and the Elogium / by Noël Golvers [1999] -- original record and further information available Here

Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-596).

Primarily a scholarly study by Golvers, but includes a translation of the original text of the account book by Rougemont as well as an appendix concerning the account book's transcription by Dudink. Also features a glossary, index of names, bibliography, illustrations incl. representative manuscript pages and maps.
Note that Golvers is credited on cover, title page by his Chinese name, Gao Huashi 高華士.

本書是比利時著名漢學家高華士(Noel Golvers)博士研究天主教傳華史的一部力作，重現了17世紀耶穌會士魯日滿(Franois de Rotagemont，S.J.1624—1676)在中國的傳教活動及生活狀況。魯日滿於17世紀60年代末從比利時來到中國，一直以常熟為中心，在江南地區從事傳教工作。本書的研究對像是作者新近發現的魯日滿在江南的私人賬本，賬本記錄的時間從1674年10月到1675年5月，主要記錄魯日滿的私人花費和部分收入。其中還有他個人的精神生活片斷和一些傳教觀點等。高華士以其深厚的拉丁文素養，將這本賬本翻譯成英文，並用了七章的篇幅對它進行了深入細緻的研究，從而詳細描繪了這位傳教士的具體生活和賬本本身所折射的歷史意義。這是一部極為詳細的專題研究，深入揭示了西方傳教士在明清時期中國的具體活動情況，同時，書中的專章對賬本包含的經濟意義的研究，也很大裨益於中國明清經濟史的研究。

Rodrigues the interpreter : an early Jesuit in Japan and China / Michael Cooper.
Bibliography: p. 385-395.
Includes index.

Rodrigues the interpreter : an early Jesuit in Japan and China / Michael Cooper.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 385-395.

"In 1618, Fr. Johann Adam Schall von Bell, a brilliant young Jesuit scholar from Germany, set out for the mysterious and little-known land of China. Following in the footsteps of his Jesuit missionary predecessor Fr. Matteo Ricci, Schall mastered the Chinese language and diligently adapted his lifestyle to Chinese culture. When Schall's talents in astronomy and mathematics attracted the attention of the Ming Dynasty Emperor, he was appointed head of the Bureau of Astronomy and given the monumental task of renovating the Chinese calendar.

Schall retained his position even after the Ming Dynasty fell and was replaced by the Manchu Qing Empire. He became the close friend and spiritual guide of the young Qing Emperor who raised Schall to the highest official level ever attained by a westerner in Chinese history-Mandarin of the First Class. When the Emperor met with an early death, Schall was influential in choosing his successor - the great Kangxi Emperor - who came to be China's longest reigning and most respected ruler. It was the Kangxi Emperor that issued the edict giving the Catholic Church legal status in China.

This two-part TV docudrama follows Schall throughout his long and dramatic life in China, his accomplishments, his struggles with his fellow missionaries and his own conscience, his persecution and narrow escape from a cruel death, and his official burial presided over by the Emperor himself."--case insert.

See YouTube trailer.

The death of Stephen Faber, S.J. : apostle of Shensi, China / Francis A. Rouleau.
"Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, extractum e vol. xxix-1960"
Includes bibliographical references.

Local access dig.pdf. [Rouleau-Death of Stephen Faber.pdf]

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Contents keywords : Douai ; Lisbon ; Mozambique ; India ; Nanjing ; Establishment of Hangzhou residence ; Conversion of the Mandarin Yang ; de Spira ; Macao and Goa ; Persecution ; Manchus ; Secret societies ; Jiangxi ; Henan and Shanxi ; Si-ngan-fou (Xi'an fu) ; Rites controversy.
Local access dig.pdf. [Dehaisnes-Vie Trigault.pdf].
Online at Gallica.