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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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