Matteo Ricci (Macerata, 1552 – Beijing, 1610) was the first Westerner to establish a deep reciprocal relationship of knowledge and friendship between Europe and China. He still remains today, for the two civilizations, a symbol and a model of mutual relations. This volume proposes new studies in three research areas. The first deals with new or unpublished documents in Chinese concerning Matteo Ricci and his interlocutors. The aim of this investigation is to provide a more nuanced and precise reconstruction of Ricci’s experience by relying on a full knowledge of events and records. Secondly, the volume suggests new ways of analysing Ricci’s works by examining a number of topics that have never been explored before, or by focusing on writings that still need to be properly understood. The third theme of the volume is the effort in self-understanding among European scholars prompted by Ricci and later Jesuits, as well as by other religious orders, especially during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As a whole, the volume is an essential reference work for those who want to have a better understanding of Matteo Ricci and of the first significant encounter between Europe and China.--p.[4] of cover.

• Allì Caracciolo, Li Madou
• Filippo Mignini, Introduction

• New Perspectives in the Studies on Matteo Ricci

1. New Documents in Chinese Concerning Matteo Ricci and His Interlocutors
o Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, Becoming Li Madou: Ruggieri, Ricci, Longobardo and the Making of the Jesuit China Mission
o Dorothy M. Figueira, The Jesuits in Asia, Ricci’s Accomodation Policy, and Comparing Cultures
o Frédéric Wang, The Tongnian Network in Matteo Ricci’s Intellectual Network
o Adrian Dudink, A Proposal for the Identification of Ricci’s “Ligiucin”: not Li Bengu (李本固, 1559-1638), but Li Deng (李登, 1524-1609)
o Liu Yanmei, A Bilingual Italian-Chinese Reference Book Concerning Matteo Ricci and His Chinese Interlocutors in the Late Ming Dynasty (1579-1610)

2. New Ways of Analysing Ricci’s Works
o Zhang Xiping, New Advances in Research on Michele Ruggieri: Analysis of Separate Sheets From the Portuguese-Chinese Dictionary
o Huang Ping, Themes and Issues in Posthumous Polemics (Bianxue Yidu)
o Wang Suna, Introduction of the European Classics and Ethics in China at the End of the Ming Dynasty
o Diego Poli, The Italian Language of Matteo Ricci Poised Between Estrangement and Inculturation
o Gianni Criveller, The Imaginative Melancholy of Matteo Ricci
o Vito Avarello, Intersubjectivity and the Self in Ricci’s Writings: Construction of a Mystical Fable for a New Christian Eudemonism

3. The Reflection of Europe on Itself in the Light of Chinese Civilization
o Michela Catto, Images of “Jesuitical” China in the Enlightenment: Irreligion, Anticlericalism and Anti-Jesuitism
o Michel Dupuis, Meta-Ethical Issues in Christian Wolff’s Oratio de sinarum philosophia practica (1721) and His Adnotationes (1726). A Brief Note
o Ambrogio Selusi, Atheism, Wisdom, Enlightened Empire and Irrationality. The Changing Influence of Jesuits’ China on European Histories of Philosophy (1600-1744)
o Hu Wenting, A Brief Study of Chinese Books on Western Learning in Fonti Ricciane
o Thierry Meynard, Ricci and Three Early Jesuit Translations of the Lunyu

Contents (from Monumenta Serica):
ANGELO S. LAZZAROTTO, P.I.M.E.: The Brescia Symposium on Giulio Aleni.

Essays on the Historical Context:
GIULIANO BERTUCCIOLI: Europe as Seen from China before the Arrival of the Jesuits — PIERO CORRADINI: Christian Presence in China up to the Time of Aleni — ADOLFO TAMBURELLO: Western Powers’ Politics and Missionary Action in Seventeenth Century China — MASSIMO MARCOCCHI: The Missionary Élan in the Church of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.

Aleni’s Background, Biography, and Rôle:
MARIO COLPO: Giulio Aleni’s Cultural and Religious Background — ERIK ZÜRCHER: Giulio Aleni’s Biography — ADRIAN DUDINK: Giulio Aleni and Li Jiubiao — PAUL RULE: Giulio Aleni and the Chinese Rites Controversy — EUGENIO MENEGON: Jesuits, Franciscans and Dominicans in Fujian: The Anti-Christian Incidents of 1637–1638 — JOSEPH SHIH, S.J.: Western Attention to Aleni as Documented by Bartoli and Colombel.

The Religious and Missionary Work of Aleni:
JOHN W. WITEK, S.J.: Principles of Scholasticism in China: A Comparison of Giulio Aleni’s Wanwu zhenyuan with Matteo Ricci’s Tianzhu shiyi — CLAUDIA VON COLLANI: Francisco Luján’s "Annotationes" in Giulio Aleni’s Wanwu zhenyuan — PAUL RHEINBAY, S.A.C.: Nadal’s Religious Iconography Reinterpreted by Aleni for China — LIN JINSHUI: A Tentative Study on Aleni’s Adaptation Method for Christian Evangelization — MARK K. CHANG, S.J.: Impact of Aleni’s Apologetic and Pastoral Writings on the Missionary Work in China — XU MINGDE: Aleni's Writings on Matteo Ricci and on the Chinese Converts Yang Tingyun and Michael Zhang — XIE BIZHEN: Aleni’s Contribution to the History of Christianity in China: The Nestorian Stele and Ancient Christian Tombs in Quanzhou — CHEN CUNFU: Trying to Assess Aleni’s Mission: Success or Failure? — FRANCESCO D’ARELLI: Manuscript Notes of Carlo Horatii da Castorano O.F.M. and Francesco da Ottaviano O.F.M. on Some of Aleni’s Chinese Writings.

The Humanistic and Scientific Works of Aleni:
ALBERT CHAN, S.J.: The Scientific Writings of Giulio Aleni and Their Context — BERNHARD HUNG-KAY LUK: Aleni Introduces the Western Academic Tradition to Seventeenth-Century China: A Study of the Xixue fan — CHEN MIN-SUN: T'ien-hsüeh ch'u-han and Hsi-hsüeh fan. The Common Bond between Li Chih-tsao and Giulio Aleni — PAN FENGCHUAN: The Dialogue on Renxue. Giulio Aleni’s Writings on the Philosophy of the Soul and the Responses of the Chinese Scholars — FEDERICO MASINI: Aleni’s Contribution to the Chinese Language — CATHERINE JAMI: Aleni’s Contribution to Geometry in China. A Study of the Jihe yaofa — ISAIA IANNACCONE: The Transition of Scientific Culture from Ricci to Aleni, Schreck, Rho, and Schall von Bell: The Xiyang xinfa lishu.

Epilogue: ERIK ZÜRCHER: Aleni in Fujian, 1630—1640: The Medium and the Message.

Added keywords: Wanwu zhenyuan 萬物真原 -- Li Jiubiao 李九標, xiucai 1617 – Tianzhu shiyi 天主實義 – Xixue fan 西學凡 – Tianxue chuhan 天學初函 – Renxue 人學 – Jihe yaofa 幾何要法 –Xiyang xinfa lishu 西洋新法曆書.

Tomás Pereira, S.J. 1646-1708 : life, work and world / edited by Luís Filipe Barreto.
Published: Lisboa: Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau : Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.
Proceedings from an international symposium held in Lisbon, October 13-15, 2008.
Primarily in English with occasional excerpts from documents in Latin, Portuguese, Italian, or French.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 408-432).
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Education and culture in Portugal in the 16th and 17th centuries and the humanistic training of the Jesuit Tomás Pereira / João Francisco Marques -- Tomás Pereira : family and training in Portugal / Ana Cristina da Costa Gomes -- Jesuit Orientalism : correspondence between Tomás Pereira and Fernão de Queiros / Ines G. Županov -- Engineering in the missions and missions as engineering : Claudio Filippo Grimaldi until his return to Beijing (1694) / Ugo Baldini -- From Lisbon to Beijing / Isabel Murta Pina -- Between "centers" and "peripheries" : the definition of Tomás Pereira's field of politico-religious action : an analysis of correspondence sent from Beijing to Europe / Pedro Lage Reis Correia -- Practical music and the practice of music before the arrival of Tomás Pereira, S.J. in Beijing / Elisabetta Corsi -- Tomás Pereira S.J. and the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk / James K. Chin -- Fiction or Reality? : a voyage round the world by Dr. John Francis Gemelli Careri / Elisabetta Colla -- F. Verbiest, G. Magalhães, T. Pereyra and the others : the Jesuit Xitang College in Peking (1670-1688) as an extra-ordinary professional milieu / Noël Golvers -- Tomás Pereira and the Italian Jesuits in China / Mariagrazia Russo -- The first political borders of the Eurasian continent at the northern "entrances" to the Son of Heaven? / Daniela Dumbravă -- Tomás Pereira, French Jesuits, and the Kangxi Emperor / Ronnie Po-chia Hsia -- Geographical intelligence on the Tartar Lands in Pereyra's time : the Peking-Moscow-Amsterdam connection / Willy F. Vande Walle.
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