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Marinescu, Jocelyn M. N.

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Defending Christianity in China: The Jesuit defense of Christianity in the Lettres edifiantes et curieuses & Ruijianlu in relation to the Yongzheng proscription of 1724.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Defending Christianity in China: The Jesuit defense of Christianity in the Lettres edifiantes et curieuses & Ruijianlu in relation to the Yongzheng proscription of 1724./
Author:	Marinescu, Jocelyn M. N.
Description:	357 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Donald J. Mrozek; Marsha L. Frey.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-06A.
Subject:	History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3310815
ISBN:	9780549597124

Defending Christianity in China: The Jesuit defense of Christianity in the Lettres edifiantes et curieuses & Ruijianlu in relation to the Yongzheng proscription of 1724.
Marinescu, Jocelyn M. N.

Defending Christianity in China: The Jesuit defense of Christianity in the Lettres edifiantes et curieuses & Ruijianlu in relation to the Yongzheng proscription of 1724. - 357 p.

Advisers: Donald J. Mrozek; Marsha L. Frey.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kansas State University, 2008.

Jesuits presented evidence in both French and Chinese to defend Christianity by citation of legal and historical precedents in favor of the "Teaching of the Lord of Heaven" (Catholicism) even after the Yongzheng Emperor's 1724 imperial edict proscribed the religion as a heterodox cult. The Jesuits' strategy is traceable to Matteo Ricci's early missionary approach of accommodation to Chinese culture, which aimed to prove grounds for a Confucian-Christian synthesis based upon complementary points between Christian theology and their interpretation of Yuanru (Original Literati Teaching).

ISBN: 9780549597124Subjects--Topical Terms:

626624
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.

Defending Christianity in China: The Jesuit defense of Christianity in the Lettres edifiantes et curieuses & Ruijianlu in relation to the Yongzheng proscription of 1724.
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520 $a Their synthesis involved both written and oral rhetorical techniques that ranged from attempts to show compatibility between different religious values, to the manipulation of texts, and to outright deceit. Personal witness, observation, and interpretation played a key role in Jesuit group translation projects. French and Chinese apologetic texts composed to prove grounds for the repeal of the 1724 proscription edict contain these approaches. The Lettres edifantes et curieuses ecrite par des missionnaires jesuites (1702--1776) contain examples of this approach, as well as the Ruijianlu (1735--1737). Memorials in the Ruijianlu cited favorable legal precedents and imperial patronage rendered to Xiyangren (Men from the West).
520 $a Jesuits presented their case for toleration of Christianity in the Ruijianlu in terms of Chinese notions of hospitality, diplomacy, and defense found in texts from as early as the Zhou dynasty. They cited an enduring Chinese defensive notion of "welcoming men from afar" (rouyuanren), but the court refused to return to this soft policy. The Qianlong Emperor rejected the Kangxi era policy of "welcoming men from afar" regarding established missions.
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