Subject: Confucianism--Relations--Christianity--History--16th-17th centuries

Cultural accommodation or intellectual colonization? : a reinterpretation of the Jesuit approach to Confucianism during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
AuthorZhang Qiong 張琼, 1964-
PlaceCambridge, MA
PublisherHarvard University
CollectionRicci Institute Library
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LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis/Dissertation (PDF)
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ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberBX3746.C5 Z536 1996d
Descriptiondig.pdf (326 leaves.; 23 cm.)
NoteCultural accommodation or intellectual colonization? : a reinterpretation of the Jesuit approach to Confucianism during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / by Qiong Zhang.
Thesis (Ph. D.) History of Science--Harvard University, 1996.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 295-326).
UMI Dissertation Services. UMI no. : 9710489.
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Dialogic construction of the mind : Christian-Confucian spiritual life in late Ming Fujian
AuthorSong Gang 宋剛
PlaceHong Kong 香港
PublisherJournal of Oriental Studies 東方文化
CollectionRicci Institute Library
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LanguageEnglish, Chinese
TypeExtract (PDF)
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ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberBV3427.A38 S65 2010
Descriptiondig.pdf. p. [29]-54 ; 26.5 cm.
NoteDialogic construction of the mind : Christian-Confucian spiritual life in late Ming Fujian / Song Gang.
Extract from: Journal of Oriental Studies 東方文化, vol. 42, Nos. 1-2.
Abstract and title also in Chinese: Wan Ming Fujian Yesuhui tong yujing zhong de xinling jiangou 晚明福建耶穌會通語境中的心靈建構.
Includes bibliographical references.
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Undoing the binaries, rethinking encounter : translation works of seventeenth-century Jesuit missionaries in China
AuthorOdor, Erin M.
PlaceColumbus, OH
PublisherOhio State University
CollectionRicci Institute Library
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LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis/Dissertation (PDF)
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ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberPL2658.U637 O377 2006d
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NoteUndoing the binaries, rethinking encounter : translation works of seventeenth-century jesuit missionaries in China / by Erin M. Odor.
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Thesis (Honors)--Ohio State University, 2006.
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Abstract: The act of translation is not merely the practice of employing appropriate substitutes in another language for various words and phrases, but is rather a creative and interpretive negotiation of political, historical, and cultural difference. This paper examines two instances of Jesuit missionary translation work in seventeenth-century China: Matteo Ricci's "Tianzhu shiyi" (The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven) (1603), a work written in Chinese for a Chinese audience, and the "Confucius Sinarum Philosophus" (1687), earliest published translation of three of the Confucian Four Books into Latin for a European audience. These two important works situate the missionaries between cultures - not as passive intermediaries, but as creators of a Christian-Confucian hybridity. More than locating points of equivalency of meaning, the Jesuit translators emphasized certain aspects of an older form of Confucianism that they saw as compatible with Christianity, and they reinterpreted both belief systems in ways that would appeal to each audience while avoiding the criticism of their European superiors as well as Chinese officials and supporters. By examining not only the effects of both source and target cultures on the creation of the "Tianzhu shiyi" and "Confucius Sinarum Philosophus," but also the influence of the two texts on their respective audiences, this project argues for a broader understanding of what constitutes translation and sheds light on this unique historical encounter between European Jesuits and Chinese elites.

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