The Discourse Regarding the Chinese and Muslim Worlds in the Hispanic Empire (New Spain and Castile, c.1550–1630)

Gasch-Tomás, José L.; Maillard-Álvarez, Natalia

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“…2Gasch-Tomas and Maillard-Alvarez, “The Discourse Regarding the Chinese and Muslim Worlds in the Hispanic Empire,” in Keller and Irigoyen-García, The Dialectics of Orientalism , 87; Boxer, South China in the Sixteenth Century , 1–18.…”

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“…Some of the more important works in this tradition, such as Gaspar da Cruz's Tractado em que se cõtam muito por estẽso as cousas da China and Bernardino de Escalante's Discurso de la navegación de los portugueses, were well read among scholarly circles in the Hispanic empire, but had little impact outside of Iberia. 2 The most popular work, Juan González de Mendoza's Historia del Gran Reino de China, was translated into English, thus increasing the scope of its influence. 3 Mendoza's book was by far the most heavily cited work on China among Europeans until it was superseded by the Jesuit Matteo Ricci's memoires, published in Augsburg in 1615 under the title De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas.…”

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RevisitingDe Christiana Expeditioneas an Artefact of Globalisation

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2021

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For Europeans, Matteo Ricci's mission memoirs proved to be the most comprehensive and accessible book about China. Ricci's account of the early Jesuit mission was immensely popular, receiving translations into most European languages. Until the twentieth century, however, anyone who read Ricci's narrative was not reading what Ricci himself had written. Rather, they were reading a curated translation produced by one of his successors, Nicolas Trigault. The resulting work, De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas, was an edited translation, substantially the same but often different than Ricci's original manuscript. This article reexamines Trigault's translation, on its own terms, as an artefact of globalisation. Not only does the adaptation reveal information about the Jesuit missions that Ricci's manuscript did not, but it also had a significant impact on European Catholics, as its dissemination inspired would-be missionaries to seek their vocations in China.

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