ROMAN MALEK (Ed.)

Western Learning and Christianity in China

The Contribution and Impact of Johann Adam Schall von Bell, S.J. (1592-1666)

The two volumes present the proceedings of the international conference held in Sankt Augustin in 1992, commemorating of the four hundredth birthday of the German-born Jesuit China missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell. The collection comprises 51 scholarly articles, all printed in their original languages, i.e. English, Chinese, German, and French.

The book is supplemented with summaries in English and Chinese, as well as with numerous illustrations, a bibliography, and a general index with a Chinese glossary.

 

"From now on, this most worthy book will be a basic source for scholars of the mission in China, and it may be recommended to anyone interested in the history of cultural transmission between Europe and China."

Péter Vámos in Acta Orientalia Hung

 

Contents

VOLUME 1

 

Introduction

ROMAN MALEK: Johann Adam Schall von Bell and His 1992 Anniversary

 

I. Johann Adam Schall von Bell: The Person and His Context

PETER HANS KOLVENBACH: Johann Adam Schall von Bell – A Jesuit

ARNOLD SPRENGER: Johann Adam Schall’s Educational Foundation and the Intellectual Climate of His Time

LU YAO: Three Issues on Johann Adam Schall von Bell

CLAUDIA VON COLLANI: Johann Adam Schall von Bell: Weltbild und Weltchronologie in der Chinamission im 17. Jahrhundert

MA BIAO: Johann Adam Schall and Chinese Traditional Philosophy

JOHN W. WITEK: Johann Adam Schall von Bell and the Transition from the Ming to the Ch’ing Dynasty

LIU MENGXI: Johann Adam Schall’s Role in the Reform Period

HAO ZHENHUA: Johann Adam Schall and the First Dutch Diplomatic Mission to the Qing Empire

GIOVANNI STARY: Mandschurische Inschriften und Zeugnisse zu Johann Adam Schall von Bell

EDWARD J. MALATESTA: The Lost Sheep of Adam Schall. Reflections on the Past and Present of the Shala Cemetery.

 

II. Johann Adam Schall von Bell and His Chinese Contemporaries

ALBERT CHAN: Johann Adam Schall in T’an Ch’ien’s Pei-yu lu and in the Eyes of His Contemporaries

CHEN MIN-SUN: Johann Adam Schall, Hsü Kuang-ch’i, and Li T’ien-ching

EUGENIO MENEGON: Yang Guangxian’s Opposition to Johann Adam Schall: Christianity and Western Science in His Work Bu de yi

REN DAYUAN: Philippe Wang Zheng: A Scientist, Philosopher, and Catholic in Ming Dynasty China.

 

III. Johann Adam Schall von Bell – Astrology, Astronomy,
and Calendar

CLAUDIA VON COLLANI: Theologie und Astronomie in China

TIZIANA LIPPIELLO: Astronomy and Astrology: Johann Adam Schall von Bell

HUANG YI-LONG: East–West Cultural Confrontation and Compromise in Early Ch’ing China. A Case Study on Johann Adam Schall’s Civil Calendars

ZHANG DAWEI: The "Calendar Case" in the Early Qing Dynasty Re-examined

JIANG XIAOYUAN: Johann Adam Schall von Bell and the Ptolomaic Astronomy in China

KEIZO HASHIMOTO: Johann Adam Schall and Astronomical Works on Star Mappings

GU NING: Johann Adam Schall von Bell and His Horizontal Sundial of the New Western Calendar

MINAKO DEBERGH: Les cartes astronomiques des missionaires Jésuites en Chine: de Johann Adam Schall von Bell à Ignaz Kögler et leurs filiations en Corée et au Japon

YI SHITONG: Newly Found Astronomical Instruments Concerning Johann Adam Schall von Bell

NICOLE HALSBERGHE: Quotations from the Works of Johann Adam Schall in the Yixiang zhi of Ferdinand Verbiest

JEAN-CLAUDE MARTZLOFF: Notes on Planetary Theories in Giacomo Rho’s Wuwei lizhi.

 

VOLUME 2

 

IV. "Western Learning" in China: The Contribution
of Johann Adam Schall von Bell

BENJAMIN A. ELMAN: The "Chinese Sciences" in Policy Questions from Confucian Civil Examinations during the Late Ming

CATHERINE JAMI: Mathematical Knowledge in the Chongzhen lishu

PAN JIXING: Johann Adam Schall von Bell and the Spread of Georgius Agricola’s De re metallica in Late Ming China

ZHANG ZHISHAN: Johann Adam Schall von Bell and His Book On Telescopes

SUN XI: Johann Adam Schall von Bell und die westlichen "Feuerwaffen" in China

ISAIA IANNACCONE: The Geyuan baxian biao (Trigonometric Tables) and Some Remarks about the Scientific Collaboration between Schall von Bell, Rho, and Schreck

YANG XIAOHONG: Die Haltung der chinesischen Intellektuellen zur Xixue (Westliche Lehre) am Ende der Ming- und Anfang der Qing-Dynastie. Ein Vergleich zwischen Matteo Ricci und Johann Adam Schall im Hinblick auf ihre Methode der "Evangelisierung durch Wissenschaft"

ZHANG XIAO: Modern Scientific Culture Introduced into China by Catholic Missionaries During the Ming and the Ch’ing Dynasties.

 

V. The Religious Writings and Activities
of Johann Adam Schall von Bell

CHEN SONG: Johann Adam Schall von Bell in China: "Propagating Catholicism Through Academic Activities"

ADRIAN DUDINK: The Religious Works Composed by Johann Adam Schall, Especially His Zhuzhi qunzheng and His Efforts to Convert the Last Ming Emperor

ZHAO PUSHAN: Johann Adam Schall and His Work Zhuzhi qunzheng

XIAO LIANGQIONG: Schall and His Chinese Work Zhuzhi qunzheng

ANGELO S. LAZZAROTTO: Wide Apostolic Concern of Johann Adam Schall

HORST RZEPKOWSKI: Der Beitrag von Johann Adam Schall von Bell zur einheimischen christlichen Kunst.

 

VI. Johann Adam Schall von Bell as a Literary
and Iconographic Figure

GREGORY BLUE: Johann Adam Schall and the Jesuit Mission in Vondel’s Zungchin

ADRIAN HSIA: Der literarische Beitrag zur Darstellung der Jesuitenmission in China, insbesondere des Wirkens von Johann Adam Schall von Bell

CHANG SHENG-CHING: Das Porträt von Johann Adam Schall von Bell in Athanasius Kirchers China illustrata.

 

VII: Johann Adam Schall von Bell: Reception and Impact

HAO GUIYUAN: The Differences and Similarities of Thought and Culture between China and the West Reflected in Works Written by Jesuits in Chinese in the Early Period

YANG YI: Johann Adam Schall’s Writings in China

WANG BING: An Introduction of Some Chinese Records and Researches on Johann Adam Schall von Bell’s Scientific Activities

YOSHIDA TADASHI: The Works of Johann Adam Schall von Bell in Tokugawa Japan

GU WEIMIN: Erläuterungen und Forschungen zu Johann Adam Schall von Bell in China im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

TATJANA A. PANG: Russian Evidence of Johann Adam Schall von Bell.

 

VIII. The Encounter of Europe and China: Other Examples

NOEL GOLVERS: The Development of the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus Reconsidered in the Light of New Material

RITA WIDMAIER: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’ Streben nach Harmonie zwischen China und Europa

GERLINDE GILD: The Introduction of European Musical Theory during the Early Qing Dynasty. The Achievements of Thomas Pereira and Theodorico Pedrini

PAUL SHAN: Science and Faith in China Today.

 

General Index with Glossary

 

 

Monumenta Serica
Monograph Series XXXV

ISBN 3-8050-0409-5
ISSN 0179-261X