1st Edition

Kouduo richao. Li Jiubiao's Diary of Oral Admonitions. A Late Ming Christian Journal Translated, with Introduction and Notes by Erik Zurcher, Vol. 2

By Erik Zürcher Copyright 2007
256 Pages
by Routledge

The Diary of Oral Admonitions (Kouduo richao) is an invaluable mirror of early Chinese Christianity, as it stands out as the only source that allows a glimpse of Jesuit missionary practice in China on a local level - "accommodation in action" - and of the various responses of the Chinese audience, both converts and interested outsiders. It is a compilation of some five hundred notes "about... Read more
The Chinese Text of Kouduo richao (from ARSI, vol. 12 [Jap. Sin. 1.81]) -- Preface to The Diary of Oral Admonitions by Zhang Geng. -- Preface to The Diary of Oral Admonitions by Lin Yijun -- Brief Introduction to The Diary of Oral Admonitions by Li Jiubiao -- The Diary of Oral Admonitions. Editorial Principles (fanli) -- Contents of Kouduo richao -- Contents of Book I -- BOOK I (13 March 1630 - 24 March 1631) -- Contents of Book II -- BOOK II (1 May - 28 November 1631) -- A Note about Book III, by Li Jiubiao -- Contents of Book III -- BOOK III (7 January - 12 September 1632) -- A Few Words about Book IV, by Li Jiubiao -- Contents of Book IV -- BOOK IV (14 March - 16 October 1633) -- Contents of Book V -- BOOK V (24 November 1633 - 29 June 1634) -- Contents of Book VI -- BOOK VI (29 July 1634 - 25 September 1636) -- Contents of Book VII -- BOOK VII (22 January - 28 October 1637) -- Contents of Book VIII -- BOOK VIII (23 September 1638 - 4 July 1640) -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- I. Chinese Sources -- II. Western Sources -- III. Secondary Literature -- Index and Glossary.

Biography

Erik Zürcher