The forgotten Christians of Hangzhou /

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 conve...

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Main Author: Mungello, D. E. 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©1994.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of 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.