A vision betrayed : the Jesuits in Japan and China, 1542-1742 / Andrew C. Ross.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Japan and China before the expansion of the Iberian sea-borne empires -- Francis Xavier and the mission to Japan -- Alessandro Valignano -- Christian century in Japan, 1549-1650 to the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1598 -- Christian century in Japan, 1549-1650 to the coming of the "closed land" -- Matteo Ricci and the road to Beijing -- Christian priest and Confucian intellectual -- China mission under Schall and Verbiest -- the Pope, the Bourbon Kings and the Kangxi Emperor -- Whence came the vision?

I. Nangong shudu (1620), Poxie ji (1640) and Western reports on the Nanking Persecution (1616/1617). -– II. The inventories of the Jesuit house at Nanking made up during the persecution of 1616/1617 (Shen Que, Nangong shudu, 1620) –- III. Shengchao zupoi (1623) by Xu Dashou: the date and background of the longest anti-Christian essay of late Ming times. –- IV. Zhang Geng, Christian convert of late Ming times: descendant of Nestorian Christians? -- V. The religious works composed by Adam Schall (1592-1666), especially his Zhuzhi qunzheng (1636), and his efforts (since 1640) to convert the last Ming emperor.

Local access dig.pdf. [Dudink-Five Studies.pdf]

Journey to the East : the Jesuit mission to China, 1579-1724 / Liam Matthew Brockey.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-477) and index.

Preface -- Note on translations and orthography -- Introduction -- PART I. CHARTING THE COURSE. An uneasy foothold -- In the shadow of greatness -- Witnesses to Armageddon -- The problem of success -- Between tolerance and the intolerable -- PART II. BUILDING THE CHURCH. In the Apostles' classroom -- Learning the language of birds -- The business of conversion -- A good method and order -- Brothers of passion and mercy -- Conclusion -- Bibliographic note -- Notes -- Illustration credits -- Index.

Dig.ed. local access only [Brockey-Journey to the East.pdf]

Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need to be considered as embodied expressions of the quest for existential meaning. For practitioners, the achievement of existential meaning requires the inclusion, implication and mediation of the ancestors. When gestures in ancestor rites are analysed from this perspective it is possible to appreciate their essence as constitutive of 'ancestor religion'. This book uses an inquisitive method that investigates the discrepancies between foreign and local explanations, and proposes another hermeneutic framework for ancestor related praxes.--OCLC note.

Rites Controversy: An Illustration of Power Relations in InterpretationConclusion; Chapter 4: "Our" Perspective: The Indigenous Explanation of Ancestor Rites; Introduction; Church- or Christian-Related Native Responses; Chinese Catholic Converts' Contribution to the Rites Controversy; The Sacrifices Were Not Religious; A Lexicology; Apologetics; The Historical Impact of Chinese Converts' Writings; 祭天敬祖: A Chinese Catholic Response to a Crucial Point in the Rites Controversy; Protestant Responses to Ancestor Rites; Awareness of the Problem; Historical Development.

Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Are Ancestors a Problem?; Chapter 2: The Hermeneutic Challenge of Ancestor- Related Practices; Introduction; Conceptual Issues; Hermeneutics; Why Hermeneutics?; Ad hoc or Implicit Hermeneutics; Nicolas Standaert's Hermeneutics of Cultural Encounters; Ancestors; Plural Naming of the Celebrated Remembrance of the Dead; Ancestor Rites; Ancestor Ritual; Ancestor Worship: Ancestor Cult or Ancestor Veneration?; Traditional Religion? Why Not Ancestor Religion ... ; Built-In Structure of Ancestor Rites; Three Interpretative Ingredients.

Interpretation of Ancestor Rituals and Tradition Interpretation and Power; Salvation/Wholeness/Integrity; Conclusion; Chapter 3: The Conflict of Interpretation of Chinese Ancestor Rites; Introduction; Stages of Encounter between Christianity and Chinese Culture; Early Chinese Christianity and the Problem of Ancestor Rites; Ancestor Rites in the Stories of Christian Visitors to the Yuan Dynasty; Matteo Ricci's Perception and Appraisal of Ancestor Rites; Information Related to Ancestor Rites; The Methodological Ground of Ricci's Appraisal of Ancestor Rites.

Concluding Summary of Ricci's Appraisal of Ancestor Rites: One of the Points of the Chinese Rites Controversy; Sinology and the Quest for the Meaning of Chinese Ancestor Rites; An Interpretation in View of Mission; Ancestor Rites: An Attraction for Human Sciences; A Practical Answer to a Theoretical Problem; The Methodological Contribution; The Protestants' Assessment of and Responses to Ancestor Rites; Power Relations and the Appraisal of Ancestor Rites; Political and Institutional Power Relations; Conceptual and Ideological Conditioning.

A Three-Step Pattern in Indigenized Christian Responses-The Three-Step Structure at Work; Concluding Observations on the Protestant Indigenous Response; The Academic Environment; The Core of Chinese Religion (s); Chinese Mainland Scholars' Responses to Foreign Assessments of Ancestor Rituals; Direct Responses; Indirect Responses; A Critical Enrichment of Foreign Interpretations; Concluding Summary of Chinese Indigenous Responses; Chapter 5: Existential Practical Hermeneutics of Ancestor Religion; Introduction; Why Practical or Existential Hermeneutics?--[See OCLC #1020790434]

"A model for all Christian women" : Candida Xu, a Chinese Christian woman of the seventeenth century / Gail King.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-153) and index.
"Monumenta Serica Institute, Sankt Augustin."

Acknowledgments -- Preface by D.E. Mungello -- List of Abbreviations -- Map: China in the time of Candida Xu -- Introduction.
Chapter One: Roots of the Xu Family: The Generations before Candida Xu
Chapter Two: Childhood and Married Life
Chapter Three: The Widowed Years
Chapter Four: The Legacy of Candida Xu
Appendices:
Appendix 1: "Baolun tang gao" 寶倫堂稿. Autobiographical Preface by Hesha 鶴沙 (Xu Zuanzeng 許纘曾). Translation of Portions Related to Candida Xu

Appendix 2: Xu Zuanzeng’s Biography of His Mother Candida Xu. Translation of "Compendio de la vida y la muerte de Doña Candida, sacado de un librito, que imprimió su hijo D. Basilio Hiù." Translated by Matt Hill

Appendix 3: Xu Yunxi, Foreword to the 1938 edition of Yiwei Zhongguo fengjiao taitai 一位中國奉教太太

Bibliography --Index with Glossary

"This biography of Candida Xu (1607-1680), granddaughter of the prominent Chinese Christian convert and statesman Xu Guangqi (1562-1633) and foremost Chinese Christian woman of the seventeenth century, is based on the biography of Candida Xu titled Histoire d'une dame chrétienne (Paris, 1688) written by her confessor Philippe Couplet, S.J. (1623-1693), an obituary of his mother and other writings by her eldest son, and the Xu family history. Using these as well as other relevant European missionary and Chinese language sources, Candida Xu's life as daughter, wife, mother, and generous contributor to the Christian Church is recounted. Events in her life are set in the context of historical and religious circumstances in China at the time. Consideration of the situation of women, particularly Christian women, draws out how Candida Xu's faith helped her and other believing Christian women to gain greater freedom of choice and action"-- Provided by publisher.

N.B. LC retains: Hiu, Candide, 1607-1680. Candida Xu (Xu Gandida 徐甘弟大, 1607-1680); granddaughter of the eminent convert Xu Guangqi 徐光啓 (1562-1633))