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Friendship and Hospitality : The Jesuit-Confucian Encounter in Late Ming China.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Xu, Dongfeng.
- Series:
- SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
- SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hospitality.
- History.
- Religion.
- China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644--Religion.
- China.
- Hospitality--China.
- Christianity and other religions--Confucianism.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Confucianism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 pages).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Xu, Dongfeng Friendship and Hospitality
- ISBN:
- 9781438484969
- 1438484968
- Publisher Number:
- 40030736532
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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