•History of the Jews in China •List of Catholic missionaries to China •Medical missions in China •Catholic Church in China •List of Protestant theological seminaries in China •Three Pillars of Chinese Catholicism ReferencesEdit CitationsEdit 1.^ Wigal, p.202 2.^ Mungello (2005)...
Although vague, the expression "Late Imperial China" denotes more than a half century. Secondly, until 1687 Jesuit missionaries in China belonged to the Society's Portuguese Assistance, although nearly all those engaged in scientific work came from other European countries. Hsia, however, focuses ...
In the early 1700s, Jesuit missionaries in China persuaded Emperor Kangxi to employ them to map his vast empire. Thus was launched the most extensive, scientifically based cartographic undertaking in the history of the world up to that time. Jesuit Mapmaking in China tells the fascinating story...
although westernmissionariessuchasMatteo RICCI andRobert MORRISON had broughtintoChinathelatest fruits of western culture, the dominance of ConfucianisminbothMingandQing dynasties had impeded the [...] legco.gov.hk legco.gov.hk 到了明末清初,雖然有西方傳教士利馬竇和馬禮遜等人把西方文化的最新成果...
??This is to give a historical description on roles and activities of Jesuit missionaries who introduced western painting style into Japan and China. Studies on this field traditionally have been made by art historians and scholars in the society of Jesus respectively. In this essay, we have tri...
AbstractThis article takes as its subject a document known as the precieux manuscrit, assembled by Paul Ragueneau, superior of the Jesuit mission in New France, in 1652 as an aid to the canonization of the eight Jesuit missionaries who would come to be known as the North American martyrs. ...
A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the cultural divides between...
, Western Humanistic Culture Presented to China by Jesuit Missionaries (XVII-XVIII centuries): Proceedings of the Conference held in Rome, October 25-27, 1993. Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S.I. XLIX. Rome: Institutum Historicum S.I., 1996, 396 pp. Figures, Diagrams, Notes, Glossary, ...
Alexandre de Rhodes is known for a Vietnamese–Latin–Portuguese dictionary; he perfected a romanized script, calledQuoc-ngu, developed by the earlier missionaries Gaspar de Amaral and Antonio de Barbosa, and he added special marks to the roman letters, denoting tones, which in Vietnamese indic...
Missionaries are by definition an adventurous lot, but in the 16th century, Matteo Ricci set the bar for pioneering evangelists. When the 30-year-old Ricci set out for China in 1582, he was only the second Jesuit to attempt missionary work in the Middle Kingdom―and the first to survive...