Description |
1 online resource (xi, 248 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
1. In the Beginning -- 2. The Elixir of Immortality from the Far West: Cinnabar from Rome -- 3. Through a Glass Darkly -- 4. The Negligence of Today's Literati -- 5. Loving the Lord of Heaven and Hating the Buddha -- 6. In the Eastern Sea and in the Western Sea Sages Arise Who Are Identical in Thinking -- 7. At the End |
Summary |
Based on manuscripts from the once inaccessible former Jesuit library of Zikawei in Shanghai, this book breaks new ground in focusing on the generation that followed Matteo Ricci and other luminaries of the early China mission. Unusual in its coverage of both Jesuits and their Chinese literati converts, The Forgotten Christians of Hangzhou traces the development of the Christian presence in seventeenth century Hangzhou through the work of Jesuit fathers Martino Martini and Prospero Intorcetta, and Confucian scholar Zhang Xingyao, whose struggle to demonstrate the compatibility of Neo-Confucianism with the "Lord of Heaven Teaching from the Far West" forms the focus of D.E. Mungello's penetrating study |
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The church and cemetery have since been reopened and the works of Hangzhou Christians are preserved in libraries in Shanghai, Beijing, and Paris. These architectural and literary monuments help reconstruct the features of one of China's most colorful and historical cities and the experiences of some of her most remarkable inhabitants. The Forgotten Christians of Hangzhou not only tells us their story but adds a new dimension to our knowledge of the assimilation of Christianity by Chinese culture - a process that is still under way today |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Jesuits -- China -- Hangzhou Shi -- History
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SUBJECT |
Jesuits fast |
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Rooms-katholicisme.
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Jezuïeten.
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SUBJECT |
Hangzhou (China) -- Church history
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China -- Church history.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023990
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China
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China -- Hangzhou
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China -- Hangzhou Shi
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Hangzhou.
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Genre/Form |
Church history
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History
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
0585295948 |
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9780585295947 |
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082484372X |
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9780824843724 |
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