The Visitor

Brockey, Liam Matthew

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“…The bulk of academic studies, with the possible exception of the missionary studies about China and Japan, for instance Liam Brockey's magnificent study of André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia, tend to be overviews that observe the events from the top down. 18 Yet relatively little is known about how the impact of the change of regime was experienced by the men on the spot and how it affected their careers. Elaborating on Tonio Andrade's and Sanjay Subrahmanyam's work and my own studies on overseas Chinese, I shall address three representative Japanese, Chinese, and Dutch entrepreneurs who operated in the East Asian maritime regions, within the same conjoncture of changes of regime, but in different social and institutional settings.…”

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Three Men in a Boat? How the Suminokura, Caron, and the Zheng Experienced the Regime Changes in East Asia (1600–1670): An Essay in Global Microhistory

Blussé¹

2021

Itinerario

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This article, originally presented as a public lecture at the occasion of the Fukuoka Prize Ceremony in September 2019, approaches from biographical and microhistorical perspectives the careers of three early-modern protagonists, Suminokura Ryōi, François Caron, and Zheng Zhilong, who were all involved in the maritime trade of the Eastern Seas. It shows how these Japanese, Dutch, and Chinese entrepreneurs became entangled with the epochal changes of regime in China and Japan in the first half of the seventeenth century, and concludes with remarks on their agency, loyalty, and legacy.

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Section: Silver Centurymentioning

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Three Men in a Boat? How the Suminokura, Caron, and the Zheng Experienced the Regime Changes in East Asia (1600–1670): An Essay in Global Microhistory

Blussé¹

2021

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“…By and large, the Jesuits in the Far East relied on evangelizing methods and pastoral practices employed by European Catholics, which included the learning of indigenous languages and confronting other faiths. 10 In spite of past failures of foreign missionaries in China to propagate the faith, Valignano was determined to succeed because he was convinced that China was "a great and noble country inhabited by people of lively intellect given to study and governed with peace and prudence." 11 Impressed by the achievements of the Japanese and Chinese people, especially in their literature, politics, and philosophy, Valignano decided to make cultural accommodation the foundation of the Jesuits' missionary enterprise.…”

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The legacy of Matteo Ricci and his companions

Mong

2015

Missiology

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After many years of fruitless attempts by Western missionaries to establish a foothold in Beijing, Matteo Ricci and his companions were finally given permission to enter the Forbidden City to build a house and a church in accordance with Chinese laws. This breakthrough of Ricci and his Jesuit brethren represents a significant period in the history of cultural dialogue between East and West. He had come a long way, motivated by a fervent desire to spread the Catholic faith, to save souls for the greater glory of God-ad majorem Dei gloriam. To succeed in China, Ricci would need more than just a rugged faith to convert the Chinese who, by and large, believed themselves to be superior to everyone else in the world. He would need science and technology and a willingness to accommodate and learn from that mystifying oriental culture. Ricci was gifted with these traits to an extraordinary degree that made his life in China fascinating from a religious, historical, and cultural point of view. In Ricci's life, we are introduced to the first significant encounter between European and Chinese civilizations. A bridge between East and West, Ricci's life and work in China is one of the most fascinating episodes in mission history. This essay attempts to appraise Matteo Ricci's effort to accommodate Confucianism in propagating Christianity in China and his polemics against Buddhism. It attempts a critical study of Ricci's work, The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven, emphasizing its strengths and weaknesses.

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Material Piety: Science and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century Portugal

Castel-Branco

2021

Renaiss. Q.

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In seventeenth-century Lisbon, Jesuit mathematicians taught their students how to build blood-ejecting crucifixes and similar religious devices. Together with the activities of experts in the canonization of Isabel of Portugal and in other contexts, these situations represent rare instances in which religious devotion interacted directly with science. Informed by the histories of science, art, and religion, this essay argues that a piety centered on materiality fostered these scientific practices, which became religious ministries in themselves. This analysis brings new light to lasting debates on science and religion and to the purpose of practicing science in the early modern period.

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The Visitor

Cited by 20 publications

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Three Men in a Boat? How the Suminokura, Caron, and the Zheng Experienced the Regime Changes in East Asia (1600–1670): An Essay in Global Microhistory

Three Men in a Boat? How the Suminokura, Caron, and the Zheng Experienced the Regime Changes in East Asia (1600–1670): An Essay in Global Microhistory

The legacy of Matteo Ricci and his companions

Material Piety: Science and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century Portugal

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