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This Festschrift is dedicated to the former Director and
Editor-in-chief of the Monumenta Serica Institute in Sankt Augustin
(Germany), Roman Malek, S.V.D. in recognition of his scholarly
commitment to China. The two-volume work contains 40 articles by
his academic colleagues, companions in faith, confreres, as well as
by the staff of the Monumenta Serica Institute and the
China-Zentrum e.V. (China Center). The contributions in English,
German and Chinese pay homage to the jubilarian's diverse research
interests, covering the fields of Chinese Intellectual History,
History of Christianity in China, Christianity in China Today,
Other Religions in China, Chinese Language and Literature as well
as the Encounter of Cultures.
Though recognized in the latter part of the 19th century as "the
greatest Orientalist in Britain," the Geneva-born Anglican priest,
Solomon Caesar Malan (1812-1894) was such an extraordinary person
that he has defied any scholarly person to write a critical account
of his life and works. Consequently, almost no one has written
anything critically appreciative and insightful about him since his
death. A polymath with extraordinary talent for languages and
sketching, among other specialized skills, Malan focused much of
his life on assessing biblical translations in ancient Middle
Eastern and East Asian languages, while also producing English
translations of alternative expressions of Christianity found in
north Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. A life-long interest of
his was comparing the proverbs of his name-sake, King Solomon, with
proverbial wisdom from as many cultures and languages as he could
find. That interest culminated in a three-volume work that
enshrined his achievements realized through his capacities as a
hyperpolyglot within the context of a search for shared wisdom
across many cultures. In this volume, produced by a team of
collaborators from a wide range of scholarly interests and varying
expertise, we have presented a critically assessed account of the
life and key works produced by Solomon Caesar Malan. In fact, it is
the first work of its kind on Malan written since his death, now
having occurred more than 125 years ago. Readers will journey
through an itinerary that starts in Geneva before it became part of
Switzerland, moves to Great Britain, and ultimately into one of the
colleges in Oxford. Subsequently, it moves us into an exploration
of the journey of his life that involved a huge range of places,
people, and languages: starting in Calcutta, touching unusual
figures from Hungary, India, and China. Those seminal experiences
led Malan into studies of languages related to even more distant
cultural worlds in Central, Southeastern, and East Asia. The
historians among us have delved into Malan's life in Calcutta,
Geneva, and Dorsetshire, while others have explored the nature of
his hyperpolyglossia, and tested the quality of his understanding
of ancient literature in classical languages that include Chinese,
Manchurian, Sanskrit and Tibetan. Notably, Malan's personal library
was so unique, that when he donated it to his alma mater at Oxford
University, it became one of the major bibliographic precedents for
what is now the Oriental Division in the Bodleian Libraries. Yet,
when one follows the twists and turns of his life's journey, and
the surprises that occur from documenting the history and content
of the Malan Library as well as critically analysing aspects of his
opus magnum, Original Notes on the Book of Proverbs (1889-1893), we
believe both general readers and scholarly specialists will be
entranced.
This is a study of the earliest and finest collated inscription in
the history of Chinese calligraphy, the Ji Wang shengjiao xu
(Preface to the Sacred Teaching Scriptures Translated by Xuanzang
in Wang Xizhi's Collated Characters), which was erected on January
1, 673. The stele records the two texts written by the Tang
emperors Taizong (599-649) and Gaozong (628-683) in honor of the
monk Xuanzang (d. 664) and the Buddhist scripture Xin jing (Heart
Sutra), collated in the semi-cursive characters of the great master
of Chinese calligraphy, Wang Xizhi (303-361). It is thus a Buddhist
inscription that combines Buddhist authority, political power, and
artistic charm in one single monument. The present book
reconstructs the multifaceted context in which the stele was
devised, aiming at highlighting the specific role calligraphy
played in the propagation and protection of Buddhism in medieval
China.
The contributions in this volume were mostly first presented at the
conference "Research on Nestorianism in China. Zhongguo jingjiao
yanjiu " held in Salzburg, 20- 26 May 2003. Like the conference,
the volume explores the subject of "Nestorianism" (jingjiao,
"Luminous Religion") in a variety of aspects. The material of the
present collection is organized in five parts. The first part
presents different aspects of the past and current research on
jingjiao. The second part discusses jingjiao in the Tang dynasty,
especially the question of the "Nestorian" texts and documents,
their authenticity and theology. The third part deals with the
"Nestorian" inscriptions and remains from the Yuan dynasty,
especially from Quanzhou. Part four is dedicated to questions of
the Church of the East in Central Asia and other historically
relevant countries. The last part of the book presents a
"Preliminary Bibliography on the Church of the East in China and
Central Asia" prepared especially for this volume.
This Festschrift is dedicated to the former Director and
Editor-in-chief of the Monumenta Serica Institute in Sankt Augustin
(Germany), Roman Malek, S.V.D. in recognition of his scholarly
commitment to China. The two-volume work contains 40 articles by
his academic colleagues, companions in faith, confreres, as well as
by the staff of the Monumenta Serica Institute and the
China-Zentrum e.V. (China Center). The contributions in English,
German and Chinese pay homage to the jubilarian's diverse research
interests, covering the fields of Chinese Intellectual History,
History of Christianity in China, Christianity in China Today,
Other Religions in China, Chinese Language and Literature as well
as the Encounter of Cultures.
This Festschrift is dedicated to the former Director and
Editor-in-chief of the Monumenta Serica Institute in Sankt Augustin
(Germany), Roman Malek, S.V.D. in recognition of his scholarly
commitment to China. The two-volume work contains 40 articles by
his academic colleagues, companions in faith, confreres, as well as
by the staff of the Monumenta Serica Institute and the
China-Zentrum e.V. (China Center). The contributions in English,
German and Chinese pay homage to the jubilarian's diverse research
interests, covering the fields of Chinese Intellectual History,
History of Christianity in China, Christianity in China Today,
Other Religions in China, Chinese Language and Literature as well
as the Encounter of Cultures.
This Festschrift is dedicated to the former Director and
Editor-in-chief of the Monumenta Serica Institute in Sankt Augustin
(Germany), Roman Malek, S.V.D. in recognition of his scholarly
commitment to China. The two-volume work contains 40 articles by
his academic colleagues, companions in faith, confreres, as well as
by the staff of the Monumenta Serica Institute and the
China-Zentrum e.V. (China Center). The contributions in English,
German and Chinese pay homage to the jubilarian's diverse research
interests, covering the fields of Chinese Intellectual History,
History of Christianity in China, Christianity in China Today,
Other Religions in China, Chinese Language and Literature as well
as the Encounter of Cultures.
This Festschrift is dedicated to the former Director and
Editor-in-chief of the Monumenta Serica Institute in Sankt Augustin
(Germany), Roman Malek, S.V.D. in recognition of his scholarly
commitment to China. The two-volume work contains 40 articles by
his academic colleagues, companions in faith, confreres, as well as
by the staff of the Monumenta Serica Institute and the
China-Zentrum e.V. (China Center). The contributions in English,
German and Chinese pay homage to the jubilarian's diverse research
interests, covering the fields of Chinese Intellectual History,
History of Christianity in China, Christianity in China Today,
Other Religions in China, Chinese Language and Literature as well
as the Encounter of Cultures.
This Festschrift is dedicated to the former Director and
Editor-in-chief of the Monumenta Serica Institute in Sankt Augustin
(Germany), Roman Malek, S.V.D. in recognition of his scholarly
commitment to China. The two-volume work contains 40 articles by
his academic colleagues, companions in faith, confreres, as well as
by the staff of the Monumenta Serica Institute and the
China-Zentrum e.V. (China Center). The contributions in English,
German and Chinese pay homage to the jubilarian's diverse research
interests, covering the fields of Chinese Intellectual History,
History of Christianity in China, Christianity in China Today,
Other Religions in China, Chinese Language and Literature as well
as the Encounter of Cultures.
The author focuses on one of the most fascinating texts of the 17th
and 18th century China mission - the Tianxue benyi (The Original
Meaning of the Heavenly Teachings) and the more elaborate Gujin
jingtian jian (Mirror on the Worship of Heaven in Ancient Times and
Nowadays), both written and compiled by the Jesuit Joachim Bouvet
(1656-1730) with the assistance of Chinese converts. The two works
were even translated into Latin in order to support the Jesuit
position in the Chinese Rites Controversy in the Roman Curia.
Through them, Bouvet presented the Jesuit missionary strategy of
accommodation in a nutshell: He aimed at introducing Christianity
in the terms of Chinese traditional culture. Thus, Bouvet's
approach can be characterised as an early attempt at a
contextualized theology which is meaningful even for contemporary
discussions. The present study offers an introduction to Bouvet's
thoughts and works and their respective historical and theological
context, a transcription of the Latin texts - the Coelestis
Disciplinae vera notitia and the De cultu coelesti Sinarum veterum
& modernorum - with an annotated German translation.
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