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]

Generation of giants : the story of the Jesuits in China in the last decades of the Ming dynasty / by George H. Dunne, S.J.
Bibliography: p. 371-379. Includes index.

Second copy in ASCC stacks.

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))

Tong Asia ro ŭi hanghae : ch'ogi kŭndae kat'ollik Yesuhoe ŭi Chungguk sŏn'gyo 동아시아로의 항해 : 초기 근대 가톨릭 예수회의 중국 선교 . [ Journey to the East : the Jesuit mission to China, 1579-1724. Korean] / Liam Matthew Brockey (Cho Mi-won [Cho Mi-wŏn] 趙美媛 and Seo Kwang-deok [Sŏ Kwang-tŏk] 徐光德, trans.).

Includes an index.

책소개
이 책은 16세기 말에서 18세기 초까지 중국에서 활동한 예수회 선교사들의 선교 활동을 다루고 있다. 저자는 포르투갈과 이탈리아의 아카이브에서 새롭게 발굴한 수많은 예수회 연례 서한, 행정 명령 및 선교사 보고서, 그리고 선교사들의 개인 서신을 참고하여 예수회 중국 선교 연대기를 재구성하였다. 이를 통해 예수회 선교사들이 중국 사회 상하층의 개종을 목표로 한 직접적이고 적극적인 개종 전략과 기술, 또 이로 말미암아 만들어진 중국 선교 교회의 성격과 특징을 파악할 수 있다. 중국 예수회원들의 행적을 종교적 측면에서 조명하고, 그들의 선교 활동이 중국 사회에 어떤 영향을 미쳤는지를 분석하며, 이를 통해 근대 동아시아에서의 선교를 바라보는 새로운 시각을 제시한다.

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서론

제1부/ 행로를 기록하다

제1장 불안한 기지(基地)
1. 문이 열리다(1579~1594)
2. 문사의 이름을 취하여(1595~1600)
3. 천국의 교실에서(1601~1607)
제2장 거대한 그림자 속에서
1. 후원의 힘(1608~1612)
2. ‘사탄의 종들’과의 대면(1612~1618)
3. 새로운 징조(1619~1623)
4. 과거와 다른 점(1623~1633)
제3장 아마겟돈의 증인
1. 선교 순회교구의 구성(1633~1640)
2. 가까이에 있는 도전(1637~1640)
3. 심판 날의 예고(1641~1650)
4. 폐허의 재건(1651~1663)
제4장 성공에 수반되는 문제
1. “번민의 시간”(1664~1670)
2. 균열 중에서의 분투(1671~1687)
3. 사제와 신도들(1672~1690)
4. 경쟁자들의 도착(1680~1692)
제5장 관용과 불관용 사이에서
1. 중국에 있는 일본의 망령(1691~1693)
2. 포도덩굴의 끝(1693~1704)
3. “끔찍하고, 수치스럽고, 악마 같은”(1700~1704)
4. “참혹한 비극”(1704~1709)
5. 충돌, 메아리 그리고 침묵(1710~1724)
6. 어둠 속으로, 1724년 이후

제2부/ 교회를 세우다

제6장 사도들의 교실
1. 트로이 목마에 탑승하여
2. “그들에게 방법을 말함”
3. 중국인이 되고자 하는 열망
4. 항해의 고통
제7장 새들의 언어 배우기
1. 언어의 비밀
2. 놀라운 근면
3. 중국을 위한 연학 규정
4. 유가 경전 교재
5. 중국의 지혜
6. “유일한 속성법”
제8장 개종 사업
1. 서양에서 온 성인들
2. 영적 시장의 상인들
3. 선교에서 일어난 일들
4. “어떻게 거짓으로 넘어가는지를 보라”
5. 중국 그리스도교인의 정체성
6. “어두운 사원과 달리”
제9장 훌륭한 방법과 조직
1. 신도회의 거룩한 사용
2. 성모회의 형제자매들
3. 천사들을 가르치는 일
4. 천국을 위한 사도들
5. 개종 권한의 위임
6. 전체 성회
제10장 수난회와 자비회의 신도들
1. 규정 세우기
2. 거룩한 질투심
3. “품위 있고 침착하게”
4. 공동 신심의 만개
5. 동정녀의 축복을 기다리며
6. 자비의 사역들
7. 고행의 규율
8. 경건의 전파

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