Friendship and Hospitality: The Jesuit-Confucian Encounter in Late Ming China
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Offers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China. 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
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