Jesuit Chreia in Late Ming China
Subtitle: Two Studies with an Annotated Translation of Alfonso Vagnone's Illustrations of the Grand Dao
Publisher: Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter; Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published: 2014
Language: eng; chi
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9783034314398
Subjects: Jesuits, china
Description: In an astonishing collaboration the Italian Jesuit Alfonso Vagnone (also known as GaoYizhi) and with and the Chinese scholar-official Han Yun wrote down 355 chreiai and sayings, bringing classic Western rhetoric teaching to the late Ming China. In this book, two specialists present complementary studies on the historical, political, and literary background of this interesting topic.