Europe Meets China - China Meets Europe

Proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary Symposium at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany,
Bonn, May 10–12, 2012

This volume consists of selected papers from a cross-disciplinary symposium, held by the Ostasien-Institut (OAI, East Asia Research Institute) as part of the project “Europe meets China – China meets Europe.” It presents studies on the early encounters between two highly heterogeneous groups, European missionaries and Chinese literati, employing a cultural-psychological framework. Based on research in primary sources, the contributions elaborate on the cultural conditions and psychological interactions which influenced these encounters, thus providing new insights into the history of the Jesuit mission in China.

Contents:

BERNHARD FÜHRER: Preface

ALOIS OSTERWALDER: Introduction

ISAIA IANNACCONE: The Challenge of Accommodation: The Case of Niklaas Trigault and Johannes Schreck-Terrentius

GREGORY BLUE: The Multifaceted Xu Guangqi: A Composite Sketch Based on the Current Western Literature

HUI-HUNG CHEN: A Chinese Treatise Attributed to Xu Guangqi (1615): How the Jesuits in China Defined “Sacred Images”

LIAM MATTHEW BROCKEY: From Coimbra to Beijing, via Madurai: André Palmeiro, S.J., (1569–1635) in Maritime Asia

MANJUSHA KURUPPATH: Caught in Confessional Crossfire: Repre
sentations of Johann Adam Schall von Bell in Dutch Sources in the 1660s

SHU-JYUAN DEIWIKS: Some Cultural and Psychological Aspects of the Trial of Johann Adam Schall before the Supreme Court of Peking – According to the Secret Manchu Documents

CLAUDIA VON COLLANI: Kangxi’s Mandate of Heaven and Papal Authority
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