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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"Sinicization of western learning and the global history of knowledge : a case study of Huang Baijia’s comment in Song Yuan Xue'an" / Wang Hao

Published in the Journal of the Study on Religion and History No. 1

Abstract:

Huang Baijia has made a lengthy comment on meteorological change in Song Yuan Xue' an, generally, scholars regard it as Huang Baijia’ s own synthesis of western learnings. In fact, Huang’s comment derived from Zhengshi Lüeshuo, which was written by Chinese Catholic scholar Zhu Zongyuan. Zhu’s book is a work of apologetics; it refers to many Jesuits’ books, such as Taixi Shuifa of Sabatino de Ursis, Huanyou Quan of Francisco Furtado, Kouduo Richao of Giulio Aleni, etc. In Huang’s citation, he pruned all the materials relating to Catholicism while sustaining western secular knowledge. Carefully comparing the valuable copies of Chinese Catholic literature, namely, Zhengshi Lüeshuoof Zhu Zongyuan, Tianjiao Mingbian of Zhang Xingyao, and Xingxue Xingmi of Chen Xun, we can clearly see the western origin of Huang Baijia’s comment as well as his alteration. This provides us with a specific case of the circulation, transformation and sinicization of western learning in the early Qing period, as well as the globalization of modern scholarship