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Author Xu, Dongfeng http://viaf.org/viaf/4150170649000012980, author.

Title Friendship and hospitality : the Jesuit-Confucian encounter in late Ming China / Dongfeng Xu.

Publication Info. Albany : SUNY Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Part One Friendship and the Jesuits -- 1 Striving for Divine Union: The Wholly Other and the Jesuit Vocation -- 2 Other Rhetoric: Reading Matteo Ricci's On Friendship -- Part Two Hospitality and the Confucians -- 3 The Subject of Hospitality and Sino-centrism: Theory and Chinese Cultural Background -- 4 Situating the Middle Kingdom: Matteo Ricci's World Map, the Wobbling Center, and the Undoing of the Host -- 5 Reforming the Calendar: The Ming Empire's Stairway to Heaven through the Jesuits -- 6 The Confucian Hospitality: Responding to the Jesuits -- Conclusion -- Notes.
Summary Offers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China.
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Subject Jesuits -- Missions -- China.
Jesuits.
Missions.
China.
Catholic Church -- Relations -- Confucianism.
Catholic Church.
Relations.
Confucianism.
Confucianism -- Relations -- Catholicism.
Confucianism -- China -- History.
History.
China -- Religion.
Religion.
China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- Religion.
Hospitality -- China.
Hospitality.
Christianity and other religions -- Confucianism.
Christianity and other religions.
Christianity.
Interfaith relations.
Chronological Term 1368-1644
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Xu, Dongfeng Friendship and Hospitality Albany : State University of New York Press,c2021 9781438484952
ISBN 9781438484969 electronic book
1438484968 electronic book
9781438484952 hardback
143848495X hardback

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