| Volume 7, Number 2, April 2010 |
The First Edition of
the Analects of
Confucius
in the West (1687)
by Thierry Meynard 梅谦立 |
Just a Poem
The Story of “Xian Hua Si” in Cultural Encounter
by 张先清 Zhang Xianqing
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| SINCE the seventeenth century the Chinese classics have been making their way to the West, making them not only the classics of China, but gradually causing them to become classics worldwide. Here we will try to understand the beginnings of the travel of Chinese classics to the West, how Western people first read, understood, translated and disseminated the Analects, causing this book to become, in the eyes of Western people, the text best able to represent Chinese culture. The first edition of the Analects in the West is part of a book that can be seen as an encyclopaedia of Chinese thought, titled Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (“Confucius the Chinese Philosopher”) (Paris, 1687, hereafter simplified as ‘the Confucius’). This book systematically introduced the pre-Qin hundred schools, the pre-Qin Confucian school, Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming dynasties [Song Ming Rujia], Taoism and Chinese Buddhism. In addition to the translation of...
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Italian Jesuit Michele Ruggieri(1543-1607) played a key role in introducing Catholicism into the Ming Dynasty, he was the first Catholic priest to establish a permanent mission post of Christianity in the sixteenth century. However, so far his early life in south China has not been fully researched. Based on a poem written by a famous Chinese literati Ou Daren( 1516-1595), this paper aims to study the history regarding Ruggieri and the building of the first Church in Zhaoqing.
PROFESSOR Stephen Owen within the Department of East Asian Language and Civilization, Harvard University, is a well-known sinologist in the study of Chinese classical poetry and literature. In recent years, some of his works have been successively translated into Chinese for publication and he has accumulated quite a few domestic supporters. In Borrowed Stone, an optional anthology by...
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| Issue 7.2 |
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Priceless Friendship
—Matteo Ricci’s Legacy
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