Xu Friendship and Hospitality

The Jesuit-Confucian Encounter in Late Ming China
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8496-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Offers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Xu, Dongfeng

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Friendship and the Jesuits

1. Striving for Divine Union: The Wholly Other and the Jesuit Vocation

2. Other Rhetoric: Reading Matteo Ricci's On Friendship

Part II: Hospitality and the Confucians

3. The Subject of Hospitality and Sino-centrism: Theory and Chinese Cultural Background

4. Situating the Middle Kingdom: Matteo Ricci's World Map, the Wobbling Center, and the Undoing of the Host

5. Reforming the Calendar: The Ming Empire's Stairway to Heaven through the Jesuits

6. The Confucian Hospitality: Responding to the Jesuits

Conclusion

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dongfeng Xu is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Colgate University.