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Author Ricci, Matteo, 1552-1610, author.

Title On friendship : one hundred maxims for a Chinese prince = Jiaoyou lun / Matteo Ricci ; translated by Timothy Billings
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009

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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
Conduct of life -- Quotations, maxims, etc
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Interpersonal Relations.
PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
Conduct of life.
Friendship.
Genre/Form Quotations.
Form Electronic book
Author Billings, Timothy James, 1963- translator.
ISBN 9780231520287
023152028X
Other Titles Jiaoyou lun. English
Jiaoyou lun