An edition of Journey to the East (2007)
Journey to the East
The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724
By Liam Matthew Brockey
Publish Date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Language
eng
Pages
512
Description:
"It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This "journey to the East" is explored by Liam Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China, believing that, with little more than firm conviction and divine assistance, they could convert the Chinese to Christianity. Moving beyond the image of Jesuits as cultural emissaries, his book shows how these priests, in the first concerted European effort to engage with Chinese language and thought, translated Roman Catholicism into the Chinese cultural frame and eventually claimed two hundred thousand converts."--Jacket.