Statecraft and intellectual renewal in late Ming China : the cross-cultural synthesis of Xu Guangqi (1562-1633) / edited by Catherine Jami, Peter Engelfriet, and Gregory Blue. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001. - viii, 466 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - Sinica Leidensia, v. 50 0169-9563 ; . - Sinica Leidensia ; v. 50. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-455) and index.

Introduction / Historiography and Context. Xu Guangqi in the West: Early Jesuit Sources and the Construction of an Identity / Xu Guangqi in his Context: The World of the Shanghai Gentry / The Image of Xu Guangqi as Author of Christian Texts / Statesman, Confucian, and Christian. Xu Guangqi and Buddhism / Xu Guangqi's Conversion as a Multifaceted Process / A Note on the Context of Xu Guangqi's Conversion / Opposition to Western Science and the Nanjing Persecution / Catherine Jami, Peter Engelfriet and Gregory Blue -- Gregory Blue. Timothy Brook. Ad Dudink -- Eric Zurcher. Nicolas Standaert. Jacques Gernet. Ad Dudink. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. 7.

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Xu, Guangqi, 1562-1633.
Xu, Guangqi.


China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
China--Historia--Dinastia Ming, 1368-1644.
Paris <1995>

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