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Harmonious Disagreement - Matteo Ricci and His Closest Chinese Friends (Hardcover, New edition)
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Harmonious Disagreement - Matteo Ricci and His Closest Chinese Friends (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Asian Thought and Culture, 73
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The fascinating story of Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) changing himself
while trying to change the religious faith of the Chinese has been
told many times. As a Jesuit, Ricci pushed Christian evangelism by
claiming a theistic affinity with Confucianism and by presenting
himself as a defender of Confucian orthodoxy from Buddhism. Already
in his day, Ricci's unusual cultural adaptation was controversial;
not surprisingly, scholarly studies have hitherto focused almost
exclusively on variations of this controversy. Reacting mostly to
Ricci's account of events, this line of research has provided
insight, but much more can be learned about the early-modern
cross-cultural encounter of Europe and China if the perspective is
broadened to include his intricate and intriguing relationships
with his Chinese friends. With his distinctively different
religiosity, personal charisma, and knowledge of European science
and mathematics, Ricci impressed the social and cultural elite of
late Ming China, many of whom befriended him and some of whom
became Christian converts. However, between him and his Chinese
friends there were always disagreements, resulting sometimes from a
lack of understanding or misunderstanding, and sometimes even when
they apparently understood each other perfectly. Followed closely
as the investigative thread of this book, the many kinds of
disagreement cast an unusual light on an otherwise long familiar
subject and are instructive for the at times tense and even
hostile, but in reality always mutually energizing relationship of
both competition and complement between China and the West in the
early twenty-first century.
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