Journey to the East

Brockey, Liam Matthew

doi:10.4159/9780674028814

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“…This helped bring French and European science and culture to the Middle Kingdom and, in turn, further informed Europe about China. 76 As the previous chapter demonstrated, the French reports on the Middle Kingdom came to overshadow information from other sources.77 During the last quarter of the seventeenth century, not only the printed medium containing information on China became increasingly French; via the royal mathematicians, the knowledge distributed in print began to focus on French sources and content as well. This contributed to a (partial) shift in production from the Dutch Republic to France.…”

Section: Reports On China In Dutch-made Newspapersmentioning

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Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700

Dijkstra¹

2022

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Section: Reports On China In Dutch-made Newspapersmentioning

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Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700

Dijkstra¹

2022

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“…Ministry overwhelmed writings during the seventeenth century. 61 The chaotic transition from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing in 1644 probably further impeded any efforts to produce works intended to convert the Chinese to Christianity. Despite the political upheaval, European missionaries remained in China.…”

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Readable flowers: global circulation and translation of collected saints’ lives

Greenwood

2018

Journal of Global History

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This article argues that Flowers (flores sanctorum), collections of saints’ lives arranged by the liturgical calendar, were the first genre of devotional literature to have a global reach during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This article begins with the medieval origins of Flowers before analysing their dispersion in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries by the Franciscans and Jesuits. By taking a temporal long view and a transoceanic perspective, the article contributes to the scholarship on early modern evangelization, translation, global networks, and the historiographies of the Franciscans and Jesuits.

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“…51 Drawing from these resources, as well as the individual expertise of Ricci, his successors, and their Chinese associates, the Society continued to support the study and teaching of Mandarin Chinese-not only for European missionaries, but also for Chinese Christians, most of them born in Macau. 52 As a result of the Jesuits' activities, a small but significant number of individuals in Macau-and in mission posts within China-could communicate in Portuguese as well as written and spoken Mandarin Chinese.…”

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Negotiating Barriers: Cross-Cultural Communication and the Portuguese Mercantile Community in Macau, 1550–1640

Gebhardt¹

2014

Itinerario

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As the Portuguese settlement of Macau came to occupy an important position in the emerging global commercial web, it became a crossroads where peoples from disparate parts of the world—in particular, Portuguese and Chinese—came together to engage in a profitable trade. Historians have often treated Macau as a prototypical example of cross-cultural interaction and hybridity: a point where East and West converged and blended; an “Intercultural City,” in the words of one scholar. Yet, the notion of Macau as a place of intermingling and blending obscures some of the ways in which Macau's inhabitants did not quite “come together.” Here, I focus on the asymmetry in linguistic communication that developed in Macau: members of Macau's Portuguese mercantile elite did not become fluent in any of the Chinese dialects, and did not learn how to read or write the Chinese script, while a number of the Chinese who came to live in Macau—whether as merchants, tradesmen, labourers, servants, or slaves—became proficient in Portuguese. Drawing from a range of sources in Portuguese and Chinese, I argue that this asymmetry developed for several reasons, including the difficulty of the Chinese language, the Chinese government's approach to foreign relations and maritime, and the political and economic power of the Portuguese within their Lusophone enclave. I also consider how the Portuguese reliance on others for assistance with cross-cultural communication—most notably, Jesuit missionaries and Chinese jurubaças (interpreters)—shaped the evolution of the multicultural community.

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Journey to the East

Cited by 172 publications

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Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700

Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700

Readable flowers: global circulation and translation of collected saints’ lives

Negotiating Barriers: Cross-Cultural Communication and the Portuguese Mercantile Community in Macau, 1550–1640

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