On friendship : one hundred maxims for a Chinese prince = Jiaoyou lun /
"" On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."" & mdash;Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also publi...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | "" On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."" & mdash;Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendship & mdash;the first book to be written in Chinese by a European & mdash;that instantly became a late Ming best seller. On Friendship distilled the best ideas on friendship from Renaissance Latin texts into one hundred pure and provocative Chinese maxims. Wri. |
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| Item Description: | Books at JSTOR Evidence Based Acquisitions EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 173 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231520287 023152028X |
