A Jesuit in the Forbidden City : Matteo Ricci, 1552-1610 / R. Po-chia Hsia.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [342]-349) and index.
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"A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the cultural divides between China and the West by immersing himself in the language and culture of his hosts. Even 400 years later, he is still one of the best known westerners in China, celebrated for introducing western scientific and religious ideas to China and for explaining Chinese culture to Europe.

The first critical biography of Ricci to use all relevant sources, both Chinese and Western, A Jesuit in the Forbidden City tells the story of a remarkable life that bridged Counter-Reformation Catholic Europe and China under the Ming dynasty. Hsia follows the life of Ricci from his childhood in Macerata, through his education in Rome, to his sojourn in Portuguese India, before the start of his long journey of self-discovery and cultural encounter in the Ming realm. Along the way, we glimpse the workings of the Portuguese maritime empire in Asia, the mission of the Society of Jesus, and life in the European enclave of Macau on the Chinese coast, as well as invaluable sketches of Ricci's fellow Jesuits and portraits of the Chinese mandarins who formed networks indispensable for Ricci's success.

Examining a range of new sources, Hsia offers important new insights into Ricci's long period of trial and frustration in Guangdong province, where he first appeared in the persona of a foreign Buddhist monk, before the crucial move to Nanchang in 1595 that led to his sustained intellectual conversation with a leading Confucian scholar and subsequent synthesis of Christianity and Confucianism in propagating the Gospels in China. With his expertise in cartography, mathematics, and astronomy, Ricci quickly won recognition, especially after he had settled in Nanjing in 1598, the southern capital of the Ming dynasty. As his reputation and friendships grew, Ricci launched into a sharp polemic against Buddhism, while his career found its crowning achievement in the imperial capital of Beijing, leaving behind a life, work, and legacy that is still very much alive today."--Publisher note.

Prologue
1. Macerata and Rome
2. Portuguese Seas
3. Macau
4. Zhaoqing
5. Ruggieri
6. Shaozhou
7. Nanchang
8. Nanjing
9. Beijing
10. True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven
11. Laying the Foundations
12. The Man of Paradox
Epilogue
Chinese Glossary
Appendix
Magistrate's Verdict in adultery accusation against Michele Ruggieri
Sources
Index

Matteo Ricci and the Catholic mission to China, 1583-1610 : a short history with documents / R. Po-chia Hsia.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Portuguese Asia -- Catholic renewal -- Ming China -- Matteo Ricci -- Ricci in our time.

Document 1. Excerpt from the chronicle of a Carthusian monk in Cologne, 1535 -- Document 2. Policy debate on maritime trade among Ming officials ca. 1564 -- Document 3. Gregory Martin, Roma Sancta (1581), excerpt describing the Jesuit College in Rome -- Document 4. Letter from the Jesuit missionary Nicolò Spinola, describing the dangers of sea voyage from Portugal to India, 1578 -- Document 5. Ricci's letter to General Claudio Acquaviva, November 25, 1581, from Goa, India -- Document 6. Ricci's letters from Macao to Martino de Fornari and Claudio Acquaviva, February 13, 1583 -- Document 7. Ricci's letter to Juan Bautista Roman, September 13, 1584, describing statecraft and religion in China (excerpts) -- Document 8. A Chinese poem by Michelle Ruggieri and an excerpt on his missionary strategy -- Document 9. Account of Ruggieri's encounter with Buddhist monks during his travels in the winter of 1585-86 to Zhejiang -- Document 10. Excerpts from relevant passages of Della entrata on the missionary work of the Jesuits in Zhaoqing, their relationship with their mandarin patrons, and Ricci's scientific work -- Document 11. Alessandro Valignano and Alonso Sanchez: two Jesuit views on evangelization in East Asia, 1581-88 -- Document 12. Excerpts from letters written by Ricci to General Claudio Acquaviva, Shaozhou, November 15, 1592, and January 15 and 17, 1593 -- Document 13. Excerpt from a description of Ricci by a mandarin in Shaozhou, written ca. 1592 -- Document 14. The first impression of Ricci by Qu Rukui (written in 1599 and recalling events from the 1580s) -- Document 15. Excerpts from a letter by Ricci to Duarte de Sande, Nanchang, August 29, 1595 -- Document 16. Translations from On Friendship, the first Chinese work written by Ricci in Nanchang (excerpts) -- Document 17. Excerpt from Della entrata on Ricci's debate with the Buddhist abbot Xuelang Hong'en in Nanjing, 1599 -- Document 18. Letter by the Chinese dissident and scholar Li Zhi to a friend, in which he describes his impressions of Ricci (ca. 1599) -- Document 19. Poem dedicated by Li Zhi to Ricci -- Document 20. The Nanjing writer Gu Qiyuan's description of Ricci (ca. 1598-99) -- Document 21. Excerpt from Della entrata on Ricci's 1600 journey to Beijing and his imprisonment by the eunuch Ma Tang -- Document 22. The mandarin Feng Yingjing's endorsement of Ricci's True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven (1603) -- Document 23. Excerpt from Ricci's True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven (1603) to illustrate the concordance between Christian moral teachings and Confucian texts and Ricci's attacks on Buddhism -- Document 24. Ricci's World Map compared with a Chinese map of the Ming Dynasty and a Portuguese map of 1502 -- Document 25. Letter by Ricci to his father, Giovanni Battista Ricci, May 10, 1605 -- Document 26. Preface by Ricci on the Chinese translation of Euclid and on his collaboration with Xu Guangqi (1608) -- Document 27. Excerpts from Ricci's Chinese work Qiren shipian (Ten Discourses of the Man of Paradox), which recorded actual conversations between Ricci and Chinese interlocutors on Christianity -- Document 28. Letter by the Buddhist layman Yu Chunxi to Ricci, in which he criticizes Ricci's opposition to Buddhism (1608) -- Document 29. Excerpts from a letter by Ricci to Francesco Pasio, vide-provincial in the Japan Jesuit mission, February 15, 1609 -- Document 30. The legacy of Ricci in China.

Un gesuita in Cina (1552-1610) : Matteo Ricci dall'Italia a Pechino / Giulio Andreotti.

Un solo cielo : Giulio Aleni S.J. (1582-1649) : geografia, arte, scienza, religione dall'Europa alla Cina / Eugenio Menegon.
At head of title: Cassa rurale ed artigiana padana, Fondazione civiltà bresciana.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-217).

L'Occidente scopre la Cina: la nascita dell'impero portoghese e la missione dei gesuiti in Oriente -- Animali mitici -- Giulio Aleni: la sua formazione in Italia: da Brescia a Lisbona -- Il Mappamondo -- I primi passi di Aleni missionario: da Macao al Fujian -- Il Confucio dell'Occidente: la missione del Fujian -- Meraviglie dall'Antichità -- Gli equilibri si rompono: gli inizi della Controversia dei Riti Chinesi e la conquista mancese della Cina -- Vita Christi -- Oltre il confine delle culture: alcune opere di Aleni in lingua cinese -- Conclusione --Poesie in onore di Giulio Aleni: dal Xichao Chongzheng ji.
Casalini Libri CASA 9507077X
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