The interweaving of rituals : funerals in the cultural exchange between China and Europe / Nicolas Standaert.
"A China program book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-314) and index.
Chinese and European funerals -- Missionaries' knowledge of Chinese funerals -- The gradual embedding of Christian funeral rituals in China -- Funerals as public manifestation -- Funerals as community practice -- Christian versus superstitious rituals -- Imperial sponsorship of Jesuit funerals -- Conclusion: The metaphor of textile weaving.

"The death of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci in China in 1610 was the occasion for demonstrations of European rituals appropriate for a Catholic priest and also of Chinese rituals appropriate to the country hosting the Jesuit community. Rather than burying Ricci immediately in a plain coffin near the church, according to their European practice, the Jesuits followed Chinese custom and kept Ricci's body for nearly a year in an air-tight Chinese-style coffin and asked the emperor for burial ground outside the city walls. Moreover, at Ricci's funeral itself, on their own initiative the Chinese performed their funerary rituals, thus starting a long and complex cultural dialogue in which they took the lead during the next century.
The Interweaving of Rituals explores the role of ritual - specifically rites related to death and funerals - in cross-cultural exchange, demonstrating a gradual interweaving of Chinese and European ritual practices at all levels of interaction in seventeenth-century China. This includes the interplay of traditional and new rituals by a Christian community of commoners, the grafting of Christian funerals onto established Chinese practices, and the sponsorship of funeral processions for Jesuit officials by the emperor. Through careful observation of the details of funerary practice, Nicolas Standaert illustrates the mechanics of two-way cultural interaction. His thoughtful analysis of the ritual exchange between two very different cultural traditions is especially relevant in today's world of global ethnic and religious tension. His insights will be of interest to a broad range of scholars, from historians to anthropologists to theologians."--Publisher.
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Liyi de jiaozhi : Mingmo-Qingchu Zhong-Ou wenhua jiaoliu zhong de sangzangli  禮儀的交織 : 明末清初中歐文化交流中的喪葬禮  / (Bilishi) Zhong Mingdan zhu ; Zhang Jia yi  (比利時)鐘鳴旦著 ; 張佳譯.

Translation of: The interweaving of rituals : funerals in the cultural exchange between China and Europe
Includes bibliographical references (p.257-282)

本書所討論的主題是禮儀在文化交流中所扮演的角色,具體地說,是喪禮在17世紀中歐交流中的角色.喪禮通常被認為處於中國文化的核心位置.而本書所討論的中心問題是,在中西禮儀傳統相互碰撞之後的17世紀,葬禮發生了何種變化.--Publisher note.