Academia.edu no longer supports Internet Explorer.
To browse Academia.edu and the wider internet faster and more securely, please take a few seconds to upgrade your browser.
2019, Frontiers of Philosophy in China
2005 •
The present article is reproduced with the authorization of the publisher as it appears in the volume Limina: Thresholds and Borders - A St. Michael’s College Symposium Joseph Goering, Francesco Guardiani, Giulio Silano eds. Ottawa: Legas, 2005
The paper elaborates on how the Jesuits introduced Christianity into China and what tools were used and how were these inputs understood and accumulated by Chinese converts. In addition, it also examines the understanding of Chinese religion by Jesuits and also the significant cultural exchanges which happened between Chinese and Jesuits.
International Bulletin of Mission Research
Matteo Ricci: Pioneer of Chinese-Western Dialogue and Cultural Exchanges2012 •
Matteo Ricci: Letters from China: A Revised English Translation with Commentary
An Odyssey of Interreligious Dialogue-Rethinking Matteo Ricci's Mission to China2019 •
The Journal of Asian Studies
Matteo Ricci: A Jesuit in the Ming Court; A Jesuit in the Forbidden City; Mission to China (books reviews)2012 •
Matteo Ricci: A Jesuit in the Ming Court. By Michela Fontana. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011. xv, 319 pp. $44.95 (cloth). - A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci, 1552–1610. By R. Po-chia Hsia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xvi, 359 pp. $57.50 (cloth). - Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East. By Mary Laven. London: Faber and Faber, 2011. xv, 279 pp. £17.99 (cloth); £9.99 (paper).
It is well known that the Tianzhu shiyi (1603) is a development of a previous catechism published some twenty years before, which Matteo Ricci completely remodeled according to his discussions with Chinese intellectuals. This research paper shows that Ricci’s mentor, Alessandro Valignano, and particularly his Catechismus japonensis, written in Japan in 1579-1582 shaped Ricci’s method and ideas. This overlooked connection between the two works enables us to understand better Ricci’s debt toward his predecessor and his breakthrough in terms of engagement with indigenous culture.
2017 •
Delivering a speech about Matteo Ricci, his missionary endeavor, and his impact on Western images of China is not an easy task. It would have been much easier 30 years ago, when the studies of the Jesuit mission were still dominated by Western historians of that mission, who mainly focused on the missionaries’ educational background and their willingness to accommodate their missionary strategies to the respective local conditions they perceived as vital for imbedding the message of evangelization. These issues will still have to be taken into account, however, the past 30 years have witnessed an increasing interest from two more fields: first, scholars of Chinese Studies in the West have departed from the unilateral perspective of their colleagues in Western history and have tried to restitute the voices of the Chinese contemporaries of the missionaries. The inquiry into Chinese sources of the period has proved immensely fruitful, mainly because we have become aware of the fact tha...
Journal of The Economic and Social History of The Orient
Michela FONTANA, Matteo Ricci: A Jesuit in the Ming Court. Lanham and Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2011. xvi + 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4422-0586-4 (hbk.). $39.95 / £24.95 / €27.952013 •
2023 •
Revista Argentina de Cardiologia
Apico-Aortic Conduit as an Option to Severe Aortic Stenosis2019 •
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B
Reaktionen von cis-Crotonsäurederivaten mit Cyclopentadien in heterogener Phase/ Reaction between cis-Crotonic Acid Derivatives and Cyclopentadiene in the Heterogeneous Phase1981 •
International Journal of Bonorowo Wetlands
Socio-economic influences of Pangani river basin on community’s livelihoods in Korogwe, Tanga Region, Tanzania2020 •
Epidemiology and Infection
Separate norovirus outbreaks linked to one source of imported frozen raspberries by molecular analysis, Denmark, 2010–20112014 •
Behavioral sciences
Do Moral Judgments in Moral Dilemmas Make One More Inclined to Choose a Medical Degree?2023 •
IJELTAL (Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics)
An Investigation into the Teaching Practices and Material Effects on Student Outcomes: A Case Study from OmanProceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Unified Explanations in Machine Learning Models: A Perturbation Approach2023 •