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Book Title
Friendship and Hospitality
Publication Name
Friendship and Hospitality
Title
Friendship and Hospitality
Subtitle
The Jesuit-Confucian Encounter in Late Ming China
Author
Dongfeng Xu
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1438484941
EAN
9781438484945
ISBN
9781438484945
Publisher
STATE University of New York Press
Genre
Religion, History
Topic
Christian Theology / General, Asia / China
Release Date
02/01/2022
Release Year
2022
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
1in
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Series
SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Publication Year
2022
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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The Jesuit mission to China more than four hundred years ago has been the subject of sustained scholarly investigation for centuries. Focusing on the concepts of friendship and hospitality as they were both theorized and practiced by the Jesuit missionaries and their Confucian hosts, this book offers a new, comparative, and deconstructive reading of the interaction between these two vastly different cultures. Dongfeng Xu analyzes how the Jesuits presented their concept of friendship to achieve their evangelical goals and how the Confucians reacted in turn by either displaying or denying hospitality. Challenging the hierarchical view in traditional discourse on friendship and hospitality by revealing the irreducible otherness as the condition of possibility of the two concepts, Xu argues that one legacy of the Jesuit-Confucian encounter has been the shared recognition that cultural differences are what both motivated and conditioned cross-cultural exchanges and understandings.

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Publisher
STATE University of New York Press
ISBN-10
1438484941
ISBN-13
9781438484945
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5057277128

Product Key Features

Book Title
Friendship and Hospitality
Author
Dongfeng Xu
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Christian Theology / General, Asia / China
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Religion, History
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
8 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Bv3417
Reviews
"With his two-faced approach, Xu is giving insight into the dynamics of intercultural and interreligious exchange that takes both sides under scrutiny ... this is an interesting contribution both at the historical, but also at the theoretical level that will be appreciated by historians specialized in this particular phase of early modern history. Likewise, scholars from disciplines such as (intercultural) philosophy and religious studies will have much to gain from this." -- Religious Studies Review "...the deconstructivist analysis of the personal interactions between the Jesuits and the literati with its cultural and political implications truly brings new and important insights." -- Chinese Studies, "...the deconstructivist analysis of the personal interactions between the Jesuits and the literati with its cultural and political implications truly brings new and important insights." -- Chinese Studies
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Friendship and the Jesuits 1. Striving for Divine Union: The Wholly Other and the Jesuit Vocation 2. Other Rhetoric: Reading Matteo Ricci's On Friendship Part II: Hospitality and the Confucians 3. The Subject of Hospitality and Sino-centrism: Theory and Chinese Cultural Background 4. Situating the Middle Kingdom: Matteo Ricci's World Map, the Wobbling Center, and the Undoing of the Host 5. Reforming the Calendar: The Ming Empire's Stairway to Heaven through the Jesuits 6. The Confucian Hospitality: Responding to the Jesuits Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
266.2
Series
Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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