Description |
1 online resource (xi, 173 pages) |
Contents |
Acknowledgments ix; Introduction 1; On Friendship 84; Chronology of Editions 139; Texts and Variants 143; Sources and Notes 157; Index 167 |
Summary |
"" On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."" & mdash;Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendship & mdash;the first book to be written in Chinese by a European & mdash;that instantly became a late Ming best seller. On Friendship distilled the best ideas on friendship from Renaissance Latin texts into one hundred pure and provocative Chinese maxims. Wri |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Text in English and Chinese |
Subject |
Friendship -- Quotations, maxims, etc
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Conduct of life -- Quotations, maxims, etc
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Interpersonal Relations.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
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Conduct of life.
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Friendship.
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Genre/Form |
Quotations.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Billings, Timothy James, 1963- translator.
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ISBN |
9780231520287 |
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023152028X |
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