Matteo Ricci and the Catholic mission to China, 1583-1610 : a short history with documents / R. Po-chia Hsia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hsia, R. Po-chia, 1955-

Series:

Passages: Key Moments in History.

Passages: Key Moments in History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ricci, Matteo, 1552-1610.

Ricci, Matteo.

Jesuits--China--Biography.

Jesuits.

Jesuits--Missions--China--History--17th century.

Missionaries--China--Biography.

Missionaries.

Missions.

History.

China.

Missionaries--Italy--Biography.

Italy.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 146 pages : color maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, Indiana : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2016]

Contents:

Portuguese Asia

Catholic renewal

Ming China

Matteo Ricci

Ricci in our time.

Introduction. Portuguese Asia

Ricci in our time

Document 1. Excerpt from the chronicle of a Carthusian monk in Cologne, 1535

Document 2. Policy debate on maritime trade among Ming officials ca. 1564

Document 3. Gregory Martin, Roma Sancta (1581), excerpt describing the Jesuit College in Rome

Document 4. Letter from the Jesuit missionary Nicolò Spinola, describing the dangers of sea voyage from Portugal to India, 1578

Document 5. Ricci's letter to General Claudio Acquaviva, November 25, 1581, from Goa, India

Document 6. Ricci's letters from Macao to Martino de Fornari and Claudio Acquaviva, February 13, 1583

Document 7. Ricci's letter to Juan Bautista Roman, September 13, 1584, describing statecraft and religion in China (excerpts)

Document 8. A Chinese poem by Michelle Ruggieri and an excerpt on his missionary strategy

Document 9. Account of Ruggieri's encounter with Buddhist monks during his travels in the winter of 1585-86 to Zhejiang

Document 10. Excerpts from relevant passages of Della entrata on the missionary work of the Jesuits in Zhaoqing, their relationship with their mandarin patrons, and Ricci's scientific work

Document 11. Alessandro Valignano and Alonso Sanchez: two Jesuit views on evangelization in East Asia, 1581-88

Document 12. Excerpts from letters written by Ricci to General Claudio Acquaviva, Shaozhou, November 15, 1592, and January 15 and 17, 1593

Document 13. Excerpt from a description of Ricci by a mandarin in Shaozhou, written ca. 1592

Document 14. The first impression of Ricci by Qu Rukui (written in 1599 and recalling events from the 1580s)

Document 15. Excerpts from a letter by Ricci to Duarte de Sande, Nanchang, August 29, 1595

Document 16. Translations from On Friendship, the first Chinese work written by Ricci in Nanchang (excerpts)

Document 17. Excerpt from Della entrata on Ricci's debate with the Buddhist abbot Xuelang Hong'en in Nanjing, 1599

Document 18. Letter by the Chinese dissident and scholar Li Zhi to a friend, in which he describes his impressions of Ricci (ca. 1599)

Document 19. Poem dedicated by Li Zhi to Ricci

Document 20. The Nanjing writer Gu Qiyuan's description of Ricci (ca. 1598-99)

Document 21. Excerpt from Della entrata on Ricci's 1600 journey to Beijing and his imprisonment by the eunuch Ma Tang

Document 22. The mandarin Feng Yingjing's endorsement of Ricci's True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven (1603)

Document 23. Excerpt from Ricci's True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven (1603) to illustrate the concordance between Christian moral teachings and Confucian texts and Ricci's attacks on Buddhism

Document 24. Ricci's World Map compared with a Chinese map of the Ming Dynasty and a Portuguese map of 1502

Document 25. Letter by Ricci to his father, Giovanni Battista Ricci, May 10, 1605

Document 26. Preface by Ricci on the Chinese translation of Euclid and on his collaboration with Xu Guangqi (1608)

Document 27. Excerpts from Ricci's Chinese work Qiren shipian (Ten Discourses of the Man of Paradox), which recorded actual conversations between Ricci and Chinese interlocutors on Christianity

Document 28. Letter ty the Buddhist layman Yu Chunxi to Ricci, in which he criticizes Ricci's opposition to Buddhism (1608)

Document 29. Excerpts from a letter by Ricci to Francesco Pasio, vide-provincial in the Japan Jesuit mission, February 15, 1609

Document 30. The legacy of Ricci in China.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781624664328

1624664326

9781624664335

1624664334

OCLC:

922970684