Friendship and Hospitality: The Jesuit-Confucian Encounter in Late Ming China 1438484968, 9781438484969

The Jesuit mission to China more than four hundred years ago has been the subject of sustained scholarly investigation f

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Friendship and Hospitality: The Jesuit-Confucian Encounter in Late Ming China
1438484968, 9781438484969

The Jesuit mission to China more than four hundred years ago has been the subject of sustained scholarly investigation f

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This is the first interdisciplinary effort to study friendship in late imperial China from the perspective of gender his

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First published in 1981, Chün-fang Yü’s The Renewal of Buddhism in China challenged the conventional view that Buddhism

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In 17th and 18th century China, Buddhists and Confucians alike flooded local Buddhist monasteries with donations As gent

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An unprecedented passion for saving lives swept through late Ming society, giving rise to charitable institutions that t

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According to imperial edict in pre-modern China, an elementary school was to be established in every village in the empi

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According to imperial edict in pre-modern China, an elementary school was to be established in every village in the empi

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In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang provides an extensive reading of the Ming (1368-1644 C. E.

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An unprecedented passion for saving lives swept through late Ming society, giving rise to charitable institutions that t

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The frequent appearance of androgyny in Ming and Qing literature has long interested scholars of late imperial Chinese c

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