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Curious land : Jesuit accommodation and the origins of Sinology

Author: D E Mungello
Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©1989.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: D E Mungello
ISBN: 0824812190 9780824812195
OCLC Number: 18560845
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 405 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The Seventeenth-Century European Background to the Accommodation of China --
European Expansion and Missionaries --
Aristotelianism, Copernicanism and Renaissance Humanism --
Hermetism --
Societies of Learning --
The Search for a Universal Language --
Mercantilism --
Galenic versus Paracelsian Medicine --
Geography --
History --
Ricci's Formulation of Jesuit Accommodation in China: The Struggle for Literati Acceptance --
Fr. Ricci's Background --
The Ricci-Trigault Production of De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas --
Ricci's Understanding of Chinese Geography, Technology and Culture --
Ricci's Confucian-Christian Synthesis --
Ricci's Treatment of Buddhism --
Ricci's Treatment of Taoism --
Some Concluding Remarks on Ricci's Policy of Accommodation --
The Continuation of Jesuit Accommodation in the Works of Semedo and Magalhaes --
The Background to Fr. Semedo's Imperio de la China --
Semedo's Presentation of the Chinese Language --
Semedo's Presentation of Chinese Learning and Education --
Semedo's Treatment of Chinese Philosophy and Religion --
The Background to Fr. Magalhaes' Nouvelle relation de la Chine --
Magalhaes' Presentation of the Chinese Language --
Magalhaes' Presentation of Chinese Chronology --
The Proto-Sinological Assimilation of China's History and Geography in the Works of Martini --
The Background to Fr. Martini's Works --
Martini's De bello tartarico in Sinis historia --
Martini's Novus atlas Sinensis --
Martini's Sinicae historiae decas prima.
Responsibility: D.E. Mungello.

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