An edition of Jesuit Chreia in Late Ming China (2014)
Jesuit Chreia in Late Ming China
Two Studies with an Annotated Translation of Alfonso Vagnone's Illustrations of the Grand Dao
By Sher-shiueh Li,Thierry Meynard
Publish Date
2014
Publisher
Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter,Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Language
eng
Pages
373
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.
subjects: Jesuits, china, Chreiai, History, Jesuits, Translations into English