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Michael Smithies & Luigi Bressan. Siam and the Vatican in the
Seventeenth Century
Bangkok: River Books, 2001
146 pp. (richly illustrated with pictures of original documents)
ISBN 974 822 56 82 (40 $)
(consult: www.riverbooksbk.com)
Smithies
is the author of, among other books:
A Siamese Embassy Lost in Africa 1686
(Chiangmai: Silkworm Books, 1999)
Bressan
also published:
A Meeting of Worlds: The Interaction of Christian Missionaries and
Thai Culture, Bangkok: Assumption University Press, 2000
Submitted to EUCHINA by Adrian Dudink |
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Timmermans, Claire. Entre Chine et Europe. Taoisme et bouddhisme
chinois dans les publications jesuites de l'epoque moderne (XVIe
- XVIIIe siecles) [Doctoral thesis, EHESS, 1998]. Villeneuve d'Ascq:
Diffusion Septentrion Presses Universitaires - These a la carte,
2002?
Based
exclusively on Western documents from different European archives
and on published collections, with particular attention for the
Litterae Annuae and the Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, the thesis
explores the critique and understanding of Daoism and Buddhism by
Jesuit missionaries in China and their editors in Europe, and the
reverberations that this image of Chinese religions had on the European
public.
Submitted to EUCHINA by Eugenio
Menegon |
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Lars LAAMANN, "Anti-Christian Agitation as an Example of Late
Imperial Anticlericalism", in Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Orient
24 (2002), pp. 47-63.
This
issue of Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Orient, edited by Vincent
Goossaert is devoted to the theme of Anticlericalism in China. It
includes articles on different types of anticlericalism, among which
the article by Laamann which treats Christianity in the eighteenth
century.
The
periodical is distributed by Sodi, 128, av. du Mal de Lattre-de-Tassigny,
77403 Lagny-sur-Marne, France.
Reference from N.
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4.
An Ximeng "Qingchu 'liyi zhi zheng' zhong de wenhua goutong"
('The Rites Controversy' and Cultural Communication", in Jidujiao
wenhua xuekan (Journal for the Sudy of Christian Culture) 7 (2002),
pp. 237-270.
This article presents itself as a critical revew of contemporary criticism
of the old rites controversy.
The periodical is published by the Centre for Christian Culture at
Renmin Univ.
ISBN 7-80123-440-5/B.102
Reference from N.
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An article on the descendants of sixteenth century Christians in
Japan by Philippe Pons has been published in Le Monde, 14 October
2002, dated 15 October, p.16.
The
article is available on the journal's website: http://www.lemonde.fr
Search with keywords in French, e.g. chretiens, Japon. Access to
the article is free, at least during one month after its publication.
Submitted to EUCHINA by Catherine
Jami
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6.
Georges-Marie Schmutz (Lausanne, Switzerland) has opened a website
(under construction) about Franz Stadlin S.J. (1658-1740), the first
Swiss clockmaker in China: http://www.sinoptic.ch/stadlin/default.htm
Those people who are interested in online pictures of (parts of)
a number of Chinese documents or maps (by Aleni, Boym, Schall, Verbiest,
etc.) preserved in the Vatican Library, exhibited in the exhibition
and catalogue "Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance
Culture"
(Rome/Washington, 1993), should consult
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/i-rome_to_china/Rome_to_china.html
Submitted to EUCHINA by Adrian Dudink
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7.
A new article by Catherine Jami appears in the latest issue of Late
Imperial China 23, 1 (June 2002): Jami, Catherine.
· Imperial Control and Western Learning: The Kangxi Emperor's
Performance
Subjects:
· Kangxi, Emperor of China, 1654-1722.
· China -- Civilization -- Western influences.
· Science and state -- China -- History -- Kangxi, 1662-1722.
If you or your institution are subscribers, access the article at
: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/late_imperial_china/toc/late23.1.html
Reference from N.
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8.
New bibliographical article:
Michael Sievernich S.J., "Die Jesuitenmissionen in Asien (16.
bis 18. Jahrhundert). Ein Überblick", Theologie und Philosophie
77/3 (2002) pp. 389-426.
Submitted to EUCHINA by Claudia
von Collani
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New papers:
- Michele
Fatica, "Note sul viaggio di Pietro Guo in Italia, 1859-1860,"
in Scritture di storia, n.2, 2001, pp. 49-83;
- Michele
Fatica, L'Istituto Orientale di Napoli come sede di scamnbio culturale
tra Italia e Cina nei secoli XVIII e XIX, ibidem, pp. 83-121.
- Giovanni
Stary, Nota sul ritrovamento a San Pietroburgo fdi un Atlante
di Matteo Ripa, ibidem, pp. 122-126.
- Wan
Ming, La conoscenza cinese dell'Italia nel secolo XVIII (Chinese
and Italian languages), ibidem, pp. 14-48.
- Jésus
López-Gay, Dimensão missionária da questão
dos Ritos Chineses (Portuguese and English languages), in "Oriente"
(Fundação Oriente, Lisboa), n. 3, 2002, pp. 81-90.
- Erik
Zürcher, O christianismo chinês como religião
marginal: a acomodação jesuítica e o imperativo
cultural (Portuguese and English languages),ibidem, pp.91-95.
Submitted to EUCHINA by Michele Fatica
- Paul
Rule, Que ritos? Que dereitos? A coquestão dos Ritos
Chineses como choque de culturas (Portuguese and English languages),ibidem,
pp.96-105; Michele Fatica, Francesco Saverio Wang e l'adattamento
in cinese del Vecchio e Nuovo Testamento in strofe tetrastiche,
1894, in S. GRAZIANI [editor], Studi sul Vicino Oriente Antico
dedicati alla memoria di Luigi Cagni, Istituto Universitario Orientale,
Napoli 2000, vol. III, pp.1493-1528
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