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Author Mungello, D. E. (David Emil), 1943- author

Title The forgotten Christians of Hangzhou / D.E. Mungello
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©1994

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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
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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Subject Jesuits -- China -- Hangzhou Shi -- History
SUBJECT Jesuits fast
Subject RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Rooms-katholicisme.
Jezuïeten.
SUBJECT Hangzhou (China) -- Church history
China -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023990
Subject China
China -- Hangzhou
China -- Hangzhou Shi
Hangzhou.
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585295948
9780585295947
082484372X
9780824843724