1st Edition
Europe Meets China - China Meets Europe The Beginnings of European-Chinese Scientific Exchange in the 17th Century
224 Pages
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Routledge
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... Read more
Preface, Introduction, The Challenge of Accommodation: The Case of Niklaas Trigault and Johannes Schreck-Terrentius, The Multifaceted Xu Guangqi: A Composite Sketch Based on the Current Western Literature, A Chinese Treatise Attributed to Xu Guangqi (1615): How the Jesuits in China Defined Sacred Images, From Coimbra to Beijing, via Madurai: Andre Palmeiro, S.J. (1569-1635) in Maritime Asia, Caught in Confessional Crossfire: Representations of Johann Adam Schall von Bell in Dutch Sources in the 1660s, Some Cultural and Psychological Aspects of the Trial of Johann Adam Schall before the Supreme Court of Peking - According to the Secret Manchu Documents, Kangxi's Mandate of Heaven and Papal Authority. Index.
Biography
S.J. Deiwiks, B. Führer, T. Geulen
