The book contains the proceedings of the 1986 International Conference on Philippe Couplet, organized by the Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation, China-Europe Institute at the Catholic University Leuven. Through his Confucius Sinarum Philosophus, Philippe Couplet was the first in history to introduce Chinese Confucian thinking to Europeans in an European language.
"These articles on Couplet constitute an indispensable body of literature for the study of this great Belgian Jesuit missionary ..."
Min-sun Chen
in Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal
JEROME HEYNDRICKX: Introduction:
I. The Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation
II. The Philippe Couplet Study Project
III. Study on the 19th and 20th Century Catholic Missions in China
Philippe Couplet: A Short Biography
PETER GORDTS: Philippe Couplet of Mechlin, a Jesuit in Belgium
CLAUDIA VON COLLANI: Philippe Couplet’s Missionary Attitude Towards the Chinese in Confucius Sinarum Philosophus
ALBERT CHAN, S.J.: Towards a Chinese Church: The Contribution of Philippe Couplet, S.J. (1622-1693)
PAUL DEMAEREL: Couplet and the Dutch
THEODORE N. FOSS: The European Sojourn of Philippe Couplet and Michael Shen Fuzong, 1683-1692
JOHN WITEK, S.J.: Philippe Couplet: a Belgian Connection to the Beginning of the 17th Century French Jesuit Mission in China
EDWARD J. MALATESTA S.J.: The Last Voyage of Philippe Couplet
DAVID E. MUNGELLO: A Study of the Prefaces to Ph. Couplet’s Tabula Chronologica Monarchiae Sinicae (1686)
KNUD LUNDBAEK: Philippe Couplet in the Writings of T.S. Bayer
LIN JINSHUI: Recent Developments in Chinese Research on the Jesuit Missionaries
Monumenta Serica
Monograph Series XXII