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Author Xu, Dongfeng, author

Title Friendship and hospitality : the Jesuit-Confucian encounter in late Ming China / Dongfeng Xu
Published Albany : SUNY Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)
Series SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
Contents Introduction -- Part One 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 Two 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
Summary Offers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index
Subject Jesuits -- Missions -- China
Catholic Church -- Relations -- Confucianism.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Jesuits fast
Subject Confucianism -- Relations -- Catholicism
Confucianism -- China -- History
Hospitality -- China
Christianity and other religions -- Confucianism.
Confucianism
Missions
Religion
Christianity
Hospitality
Interfaith relations
SUBJECT China -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024177
China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- Religion
Subject China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781438484969
1438484968
9781438484952
143848495X