1st Edition
Kouduo richao. Li Jiubiao's Diary of Oral Admonitions. A Late Ming Christian Journal Translated, with Introduction and Notes by Erik Zürcher
By Erik Zürcher
862 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
Volume 1, Introduction, I. The Text, II. The Scene, III. The Actors: Missionaries, IV. The Actors: Converts, V. The Actors: Outsiders, VI. Doctrine, VII. Communal Rituals: Holy Mass and Funeral, VIII. Social Aspects, IX. "Western Studies": (Pre)history, Science, and Technology, Appendix: In memoriam Giulio Aleni by Antonio de Gouvea
Biography
Erik Zürcher
