JOURNEY TO THE EAST by Liam Matthew Brockey ( 9780674030367 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

JOURNEY TO THE EAST
THE JESUIT MISSION TO CHINA, 1579-1724

By:

Liam Matthew Brockey

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0674030362

ISBN 13:

9780674030367

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Publisher:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 September, 2008

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 book traces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China, believing that they could convert the Chinese to Christianity.

Synopsis:

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 translated Roman Catholicism into the Chinese cultural frame and eventually claimed two hundred thousand converts.

Illustrations:

16 halftones, 4 maps

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Imprint:

The Belknap Press

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Returnable

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