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Journey to the East : the Jesuit mission to China, 1579-1724 / Liam Matthew Brockey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brockey, Liam Matthew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jesuits--Missions--China.
- Jesuits.
- Missions.
- China--Church history.
- China.
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 496 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Note on Translations and Orthography xi
- Part I Charting the Course
- 1 An Uneasy Foothold 25
- 2 In the Shadow of Greatness 57
- 3 Witnesses to Armageddon 92
- 4 The Problem of Success 125
- 5 Between Tolerance and the Intolerable 164
- Part II Building the Church
- 6 In the Apostles' Classroom 207
- 7 Learning the Language of Birds 243
- 8 The Business of Conversion 287
- 9 A Good Method and Order 328
- 10 Brothers of Passion and Mercy 366.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [427]-477) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674024486
- 9780674024489
- OCLC:
- 71126907
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