Adapting Catholicism to Confucianism: Matteo Ricci’s Tianzhu Shiyi / Yu Liu.
Extract: The European Legacy, 2014, Vol. 19, No. 1, 43–59.
DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2013.860718.
Includes bibliographical notes (p.56-59.

ABSTRACT: Tianzhu Shiyi (The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven) is the single most important proselytizing work of Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), the legendary founder of the early modern Jesuit China mission. Controversial since the early seventeenth century, it has been both praised and condemned for Ricci’s claim of a monotheistic affinity between Catholicism and Confucianism. Ricci’s gesture of friendship to Confucianism won him many Chinese friends and posthumously made him famous or notorious in Europe, but as this essay contends, it was never more than a tactical cover for him during his lifetime. Since the real purpose of his cultural adaptation was his unobtrusive engagement with the ancient Chinese philosophical idea of tianren heyi (humanity’s unity with heaven), what is ultimately so instructive about Tianzhu Shiyi is the light cast on Ricci’s intricate relationship with his Chinese friends and on the ironic twists and turns of his complex legacy.

The European legacy, toward new paradigms : journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas / sponsored by the European Cultural Foundation.

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Beyond indigenization : Christianity and Chinese history in a global context / edited by Tao Feiya ; translated by Max L. Bohnenkamp.

Collection of essays translated from Chinese.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. The Sinicization of Scripture and Thought. 1. The Chronology of the Tang Dynasty Jingjiao Nestorian Theologian Jingjing’s Writings and Translations in Relation to His Thought / Zhu Donghua –- 2. The Fountainhead of Chinese-Language Christian Theology: Matteo Ricci’s “Doctrine of the Sovereign of Heaven” and Proof for the Existence of God / Ji Jianxun – 3.  Interpretation of the Chinese Classics in a Cross-Cultural Linguistic Context: a Case Study of Antonio Caballero’s How Catholicism Was Sealed in Ancient Confucianism / Wu Liwei –- 4. The Transmission of Catholicism to the East and the Restructuring of Early Qing Literati Thought: a Study on the Intellectual Tide of “Venerating Heaven” / Liu Yunhua – 5. Interpretation and Divergence: Responses to the Dissemination of Jesus’s Image in Ming and Qing Society / Xiao Qinghe – 6. Mary in the Poetry of Heavenly Learning during the Ming-Qing Transition / Dai Guoqing – 7. Dismantling Followed by Construction: the Writing Strategies of Karl Gützlaff’s Chinese Christian Fiction / John Tsz-pang Lai – 8. From Children’s Instructional Textbook to Missionary Tool: the Publication History of the Christian Three-Character Classic from 1823 to 1880 / Guo Hong – 9. The Changing Image of Martin Luther in Late Qing China / Zhang Ke

Part 2. The Diversity of Conflict. 10. Communities of Catholic Virgins in the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties / Zhou Pingping – 11. The Entanglements of “Chastity” and “Sex”: a Case Study of Culture Clash in the Fu’an and Suzhou Religious Incidents (1746–1748) during the Qianlong Period / Kang Zhijie – 12. The 1906 Nanchang Religious Incident and the Chinese-Western Press War in Shanghai / Yang Xiongwei – 13. A Difficult Petition: the 1895 Christian Missionary Memorial to the Qing Emperor / Tao Feiya.

Part 3. Relations between Religions. 14. Reflections of the Relationship between Buddhism and Christianity during the Early Modern Era in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal/ Yang Xiongwei and Wu Wenhui – 15. The Dialogue between Islam and Christianity in the Republican Era from the Perspective of Christian Missionaries: a Study of Isaac Mason’s “Conciliatory” Strategy of Literary Evangelizing / Liu Qinhua – 16. The Christian Fundamentalist Understanding and Critique of the “Charismatic Movement” in Republican Era China / Zhang Yongguang – 17. The Role of China in the Dissemination of Christianity to the Korean Peninsula in the Early Modern Era / Shu Jian./

Part 4. Beyond Religion. 18. Chinese and the Science of Language: the Search for a Chinese Research Methodology by Comparative Linguistics and Nineteenth-Century Sinology / Chen Zhe and Ding Yan – 19. The International Reform Bureau and the Origins of Collaborative International Drug Prohibition: a Case Study of the 1909 “International Opium Commission” / Zhang Yong’an – 20. Communism in the Discourse of Protestant Missionaries in China / Yang Weihua.

"The volume, edited by Tao Feiya and translated into English for the first time by Max Bohnenkamp, traces the history of Christianity in China and explores the dynamics of Christian practices in Chinese society. Its twenty chapters, written by Chinese scholars of history, span the development of Christianity in China from the era of the Tang Dynasty to the People's Republic of China. The four parts of the volume explore the Sinicization of Christian texts and thought, the conflicts within China between Christianity and Chinese institutions, relations between religious groups, and societal issues beyond religion. Taken together, this volume places the practice of Christianity in China into the context of world history, while investigating the particular and localized challenges of Christianity in China throughout history"-- Provided by publisher.

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Mat'eo Rich'i wa Chu Hŭi, kŭrigo Chŏng Yag-yong : "Ch'ŏnju sirŭi" wa Tong Asia yuhak ŭi chip'yŏng 마테오 리치 와 주 희, 그리고 정 약용 : "천주 실의" 와 동 아시아 유학 의 지평 / Kim Sŏn-hŭi chiŭm 김 선희 지음.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-566) and index.
Gift of the author.

『마테오 리치와 주희, 그리고 정약용』은 17세기와 18세기에 걸쳐 중국 및 조선을 중심으로 동아시아에서 일어났던 중세 기독교와 유교의 만남과 대화를 심층적으로 분석한 역작이다. 저자는 『천주실의』를 중심으로 관련된 기초 자료를 광범위하게 검토하였으며, 또한 내외의 관련 연구들을 꼼꼼히 살핌으로써, 예수회 선교사들을 통해서 중세 기독교가 어떻게 중국의 유교 문명에 적응하면서 자신을 변용하여 갔는지를 설득력 있게 분석하였으며, 또한 중국과 조선의 당대 지식인들이 그에 대응하여 유교적 중심을 잃지 않으면서 어떻게 적극적으로 반응하여 갔는지를 유려한 문체로 설득력 있게 설명하였다

Abstract:
It is well known that the Tianzhu shiyi (first published 1603) is the development of a previous catechism published some twenty years before, which Matteo Ricci completely remodeled according to his discussions with Chinese intellectuals. This article shows that Ricci’s mentor, Alessandro Valignano, and particularly his Catechismus japonensis, written in Japan from 1579 to 1582, shaped Ricci’s methods and ideas. This overlooked connection between the two works enables us to understand better Ricci’s debt toward his predecessor and his breakthrough in terms of engagement with indigenous culture.

Keywords: Matteo Ricci—Alessandro Valignano—Tianzhu shiyi—catechism
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Cover: first page of Zhou Xianchen’s preface (1607) to M. Ricci’s Tianzhu shiyi, reproduced from Zhou’s Xuelin waibian 周獻臣, 鷽林外編 (Wanli edition) treated in Mr. Dudink’s article.

黃一農: 從<始信錄序>析究楊光先的性格 [Huang Yilong: Explaining Yang Guangxian’s temperament by drawing from the Shi xin lu preface.
A. Dudink: A previously unknown preface (1607) by Zhou Xianchen to Ricci’s Tianzhu shiyi
C. von Collani: Der Deutsche Philosoph Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz zum chinesischen Ritenstreit.

New Publications in the field: Singing of the Source: nature and God in the poetry of the Chinese painter Wu Li, Jonathan Chaves (1993) -– A question of rites: Friar Domingo Navarrete and the Jesuits in China, J.S. Cummins (1993) -– The Astronomia Europaea of Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J., Noel Golvers (1993) -– L’Europe en Chine, interactions scientifiques, religieuses et culturelles aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, C. Jami & H. Delahaye (1993) -– Asia in the making of Europe, volume III, Donald Lach & Edwin Van Kley (1993) -– Die “Geschichte der höchst bemerkenswerten dinge und sitten im chinesischen königreich” des Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza -– The forgotten Christians of Hangzhou, D.E. Mungello (1994) –- One hundred Roman documents concerning the Chinese Rites controversy (1645-1941), D. St. Sure, R. Noll (1992) –- Shanghai Library catalog of Western rare books (1992)

Eugenio Menegon: Archivo de la Provincia del Santo Rosario (APSR).

Includes Tianzhu shiyi yuanwen 天主實義原文 [72 p. following p. 224; each page represents two leaves of the original block-print edition, copied from the Jesuit Archives].

Tianzhu shiyi jinzhu 天主實義今注 = Catechismus sinicus /  [Yi] Limadou zhu [意]利瑪竇著 ; [Fa] Mei Qianli zhu ; Tan Jie jiaokan ; [法] 梅謙立注 ; 譚杰校勘.

Parallel title from cover: Catechismus sinicus
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.

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220p. (124 images), each represents two pages of the original. Pages divided in half: top half in Ricci's original Chinese, bottom half in modern (1940's) colloquial.
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