1st Edition
Rooted in Hope: China – Religion – Christianity / In der Hoffnung verwurzelt: China – Religion – Christentum Festschrift in Honor of / Festschrift für Roman Malek S.V.D. on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday / zu seinem 65. Geburtstag (2-Volume Set)
Volume 1
Foreword; Tabula gratulatoria; Congratulatory Poem to Fr. Roman Malek; Bibliography of Roman Malek s.v.d.
Chinese Intellectual History
Nicolas Standaert: Early Sino-European Contacts and the Birth of the Modern Concept of Religion; Paul Rule: The Dao of Ecology; Jiang Ryh-Shin: Laozi and the Formation of Philosophical Daoism. Its Formation as a School in Zhuangzi (in Chinese); Christian Schwermann: Economic Justice in Ancient China? A Few Thoughts on Distribution Policy (in German); Tiziana Lippiello: On the Difficult Practice of the Mean in Ordinary Life. Teachings from the Zhongyong; Wolfgang Kubin: A Life-long Anxiety and Not the Calamity of Merely One Morning. Towards Mengzi’s Understanding of Man’s Distress and the Problem of Intellectuals in History; Zbigniew Weso?owski s.v.d.: Experiences of Transcendence in China between the Past and the Present. A Striking Continuity (in German); Paul U. Unschuld: The Origins of Chinese Medicine. Secular Natural Science and the Quest for Existential Autonomy (in German)
History of Christianity in China
Matteo Nicolini-Zani: Xu Guangqi, Disciple of the Luminous Teaching. A Study of the Stone Inscription for the Church of the Luminous Teaching (Jingjiaotang beiji) at Jiangzhou, around 1632; Monika Miazek-M?czy?ska: The Roman Troubles of Michael Boym s.j. Described by Thomas Szpot Dunin in Historiae Sinarum Imperii and Collectanea Historiae Sinensis; Chiara Piccinini: Education to Filial Piety at the Time of the Kangxi Emperor. A French Translation of the Yuzhi Xiaojing yanyi xu in a Manuscript Preserved at Biblioteca Ambrosiana; Gianni Criveller p.i.m.e.: The Chinese Rites Controversy. A Narrative of an Ill-fated Misunderstanding; Claudia von Collani: The True Mother of the China Mission. Kilian Stumpf’s Succincta Chronologica Relatio; Rita Widmaier: The Significance of Dyadic in Leibniz’s Theory of Mis
Biography
Barbara Hoster is Editor at the Monumenta Serica Institute, Sankt Augustin, Germany.
Dirk Kuhlmann is Editor at the Monumenta Serica Institute, Sankt Augustin, Germany.
Zbigniew Wesołowski SVD is Editor-in-Chief of the publications of the Monumenta Serica Institute and Professor of Sinology and Science of Religions at the Philosophical-Theological Faculty S.V.D. St. Augustin, Germany.
