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Under the guidance of Valignano, Ruggieri embarked on the task of learning Mandarin, the language of the literati, the educated elites of China. In time, he was able to befriend Mandarins, officials in the imperial civil service who belonged to the literati class.
The Jesuits succeeded in erecting some churches in China and managed to convert a number of Chinese, but there was often tension between the Christian priests and the emperor. In 1724, the emperor made Christianity illegal in China and expelled all religious orders, including the Jesuits.
- Elmer L. Andersen Library, Minneapolis, MN
- 6.1B
The Jesuits saw China as equally sophisticated and generally treated China as equals with Europeans in both theory and practice. This Jesuit perspective influenced Leibniz in his cosmopolitan view of China as an equal civilisation with whom scientific exchanges was desirable.
May 31, 2016 · Ten years ago, the Jesuit-run Taiwanese television production company Kuangchi Program Service started a series of documentaries on Jesuits in China. But unlike typical examples of such...
Nov 15, 2018 · Unlike Matteo Ricci and other early Jesuits in China, the Jesuits of the nineteenth century arrived at a time when the West was militarily powerful, relative to China, and increasingly culturally arrogant. These two facts caused the new mission to be inexorably tied to Western imperialism.
- Steven Pieragastini
- 2018
K. S. Latourette; Missionary and Mandarin: The Jesuits at the Court of China. By Arnold H. Rowbotham. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California P
Dec 1, 2015 · After 1601, many Jesuits had arrived in China and their learned reports to their headquarters accumulated rapidly. The Jesuits adapted to the Chinese scholar-officials called Mandarins and their Confucian theories, leading to a conflict with the French church, the Pope, and the Chinese Emperor.
