In the light and shadow of an emperor : Tomas Pereira, SJ (1645-1708), the Kangxi emperor and the Jesuit mission in China / edited by Arthur K. Wardega, SJ, and Antonio Vasconcelos de Saldanha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wardega, Artur K.

Saldanha, António Vasconcelos de.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pereira, Tomás, 1645-1708.

Pereira, Tomás.

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

Jesuits.

Jesuits--Portugal--History--17th century.

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

Christianity--Japan--History--17th century.

Christianity.

China--History--Kangxi, 1662-1722.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (608 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present collection was written to commemorate the third centenary of the death of the Portuguese Jesuit, Tomás Pereira (1645-1708). Dealing with some of the most decisive and controversial moments in the history of the Jesuit mission in China during the Kangxi era (1662-1722), these essays were produced by an international team of scholars and cover a wide range of topics that reflect a permanent academic interest, in Europe and America as well as in China, in the history of the Catholic ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; NOTES ON EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; ROOT AND BRANCH; TOMÁS PEREIRA AND THE JESUITS OF THE COURT OF THE KANGXI EMPEROR; FATHER TOMÁS PEREIRA, SJ,THE KANGXI EMPEROR, AND THE COURT WESTERNERS; THE IMAGE OF TOMÁS PEREIRA IN QING DYNASTY DOCUMENTS; FROM THE EARTHLY COURT TO THE HEAVENLY COURT; THE LAST IMPERIAL HONOURS FROM TOMÁS PEREIRA TO THE EULOGIUM EUROPEORUM DOCTORUM IN 1711; PART II; 'AMICÍSSIMOS'; THE FÔ AND THE XEKIÂ; UBI DUX, IBI CURIA; 'RIDING A CRANE SHE ASCENDED TO THE DISTANT REALMS'; PART III

THE 'EDICT OF TOLERANCE' (1692)TOMÁS PEREIRA'S APPEALTO THE PORTUGUESE JESUITS AND MISSIONARY RECRUITMENT TO CHINA; FERDINAND VERBIEST'S LETTER OF 1678; PART IV; DEFENDING EUROPEAN ASTRONOMY IN CHINA ...AGAINST EUROPE, TOMÁS PEREIRA AND THE DIRECTORATE OF ASTRONOMY IN 1688; RESOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT TOMÁS PEREIRA'S ARRIVAL IN BEIJING AND SERVICE AT THE DIRECTORATE OF ASTRONOMY; SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY JESUIT SURVEYS FOR A SECURE OVERLAND ROUTE FROM EUROPE TO CHINA; PART V; THE JESUITS AT NERCHINSK; TOMÁS PEREIRA AT THE NERCHINSK CONFERENCE; TOMÁS PEREIRA, JING TIAN, AND NERCHINSK; PART VI

MISSION BY MUSICTHE ORGANIST AND ORGAN BUILDER TOMÁS PEREIRA; THE MACAU RICCI INSTITUTE; INDEX

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ISBN:

1-4438-3854-3

OCLC:

830168571