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The arrival of the Franciscans and the Dominicans in the 1630s was unwelcome news to the Jesuits, who saw in the Spanish Mendicants a competing influence, potentially upsetting the Jesuit work of establishing a rapport with the Chinese.
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.
Written in French, Latin, and Italian, these 10 manuscript items include documents concerned with Chinese philosophy, science, history, and political circumstances, as well to Jesuit affairs in China.
- Elmer L. Andersen Library, Minneapolis, MN
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Confucius. Confucius ( 孔子; pinyin: Kǒngzǐ; lit. 'Master Kong'; c. 551 – c. 479 BCE ), born Kong Qiu ( 孔丘 ), was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages, as well as the first teacher in China to advocate for mass education. Much of the shared cultural heritage ...
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 films...
anti-heterodox scholarship shaped the Jesuits’ translation of Chinese ideas to Europe, which resulted in the idealization of Confucianism in the European imagination and the neglect of Daoism in European academia until the 19th century.
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.
